Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1036-1040

  Youyou, Wu ^a   Kosinski, Michal ^b   Stillwell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Big data; Computational social science; Personality judgment; Social media

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPUTER BASED PERSONALITY JUDGMENT; COMPUTER MODEL; DECISION MAKING; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; HEALTH; HUMAN; LIFE; MACHINE LEARNING; MARKETING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SUBSTANCE USE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; MALE; SOCIAL MEDIA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84921802546     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418680112     Document Type: Article

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