Researchers say talking to yourself, out loud, is more common than many of us might care to admit. Psychologists call it 'self talk' and say how we do it【C1】______a big difference in both our mood and our behavior. Motivational self-talk【C2】______what we say to psych ourselves up: 'Come on!' 'Let s go!' 'You can do this!' Instructional self-talk walks us【C3】______a specific task. If you are driving, you might tell yourself to turn right at the next light, and then you do it. 'It sounds simple, 【C4】______you get the correct reaction,' says Antonis Hatzigeorgiadis, associate professor at the University of Thessaly in Greece. The way you【C5】______yourself matters, too. the Research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in February found people who spoke to themselves【C6】______another person would—using their own name or the pronoun 'you'—【C7】______better under stress than people who used the word 'I'. In one study, University of Michigan researchers induced stress in【C8】______by telling them they had to prepare a speech to give to a panel of judges about their【C9】______for a dream job. They were given five minutes to prepare and told they couldnt use notes. Half of the participants were instructed to【C10】______their anxiety using the first-person pronoun('Why am I nervous?'). The other half were told to address themselves【C11】______name or the pronoun 'you'('Why are you nervous?'). Afterward, each participant was asked to【C12】______how much shame he or she experienced right after the speech, and how much【C13】______ruminating they did. The results were【C14】______: People whose self-talk used their names or 'you' reported【C15】______shame and ruminated less than the ones who used 'I'. The judges found the【C16】______of those using 'you' to be more confident, less【C17】______and more persuasive. Both positive and negative words can【C18】______us in positive and negative ways. Say to yourself, 'This job interview is going to be a piece of cake,' and you might not get pumped up enough to make it.【C19】______, tell yourself, 'You just lost that match, you need to focus harder,'【C20】______it could spur you to do better in the future. 【C1】