Automatic personality assessment through social media language

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 934-952

  Park, Gregory ^a   Andrew Schwartz, H ^a   Eichstaedt, Johannes C ^a   Kern, Margaret L ^a   Kosinski, Michal ^b   Stillwell, David J ^b   Ungar, Lyle H ^a   Seligman, Martin E P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; Language; Measurement; Personality assessment; Social media

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY TEST; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL MEDIA; YOUNG ADULT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL MEDIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929400852     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000020     Document Type: Article

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