Naslov
From "kind" to "I'm a kind dude": The frequency of the use of personality-descriptive adjectives on the social media website Reddit

Autori
Vukojević, Iva ; Butković, Ana ; Gjurković, Matej ; Masnikosa, Irina ; Pocrnić, Martina ; Šnajder, Jan ; Bratko, Denis

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
ECP20 - Book of Abstracts / - , 2022, 276-276

Skup
20th European Conference of Personality 2022 (ECP20)

Mjesto i datum
Madrid, Španjolska, 12.07.2022. - 15.07.2022

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
personality adjectives ; lexical hypothesis ; Big Five ; language ; social media
(personality adjectives ; lexical hypothesis ; Big Five, language ; social media)

Sažetak
Personality adjectives are important in trait theories, but their significance in everyday language use is understudied. Hence, we compiled a set of 706 English adjectives previously linked to Big Five traits and analysed their frequency of occurrence in social media using the dataset PANDORA, which contains 14 million sentences from Reddit. The analysis is funnelled and proceeds in three stages, i.e., we count the occurrence of 1) the personality adjective alone (e.g., kind) ; 2) bigrams of adjectives and the noun "person" or its equivalent substitutions (e.g., kind dude) ; 3) the adjectives in self-descriptive sentences (e.g., I'm a kind dude.). Almost 1/4 of the adjectives were unmentioned and frequencies of occurrences were uneven between traits and between their positive and negative poles. We take a closer look at the least (e.g., uninquisitive, self-pitying) and most frequently used adjectives (e.g., simple, smart) and discuss the opportunities and challenges of analysing online language.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Računarstvo, Psihologija, Filologija

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