The search for personality markers in text: Challenges for contemporary psychological science
Abstract: The lecture will introduce the field of psychology of language and word use, both in terms of its goals, methods, and results. The primary focus will be on the method of computational psychological-linguistic text analysis, which has dominated the field for the last three decades. Attention will be paid to the elaboration of main psycho-linguistic projects, which examined relations between the use of linguistic categories in written/oral texts and personality characteristics of the author. Different levels of the text will be discussed, especially linguistic morphology, syntax and stylistics. We focus on comparison of the studies, summarize available results, provides their interpretations in a cross-linguistic and cross-situational perspective. We conclude the lecture by presenting key challenges for contemporary (not only) psychological science.
Short bio: Dalibor Kučera is a teacher and researcher in the field of general, social and educational psychology. His long-term professional focus is research in the field of methods based on communication analysis and their application in psychology. The key topic he has been working on since 2012 is the field of psychology of language use. In 2016-2018, he was the principal investigator of a three-year CPACT research project, “Computational Psycholinguistic Analysis of Czech Text”, supported by Czech Science Foundation (16-19087S). In 2020, he was awarded a J. W. Fulbright-Masaryk Senior Fulbright Scholarship with the project “Personality Processes and Oral Communication” (2020-28-11) at the University of Arizona (Tucson). He holds a Ph.D. degree in general psychology and a doctorate in psychology at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, and an associate professorship in psychology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Dalibor Kučera is the author of several professional publications, including the books “Personality Markers in Text”, devoted to the application of quantitative psychological-linguistic analysis of text in the description of personality and “Modern Psychology: The Main Fields and Topics of Contemporary Psychological Science”
Presenter: Prof. Dalibor Kučera
Date: 2024-07-11 11:15 (CEST)
Location: Distrito Digital 5, Muelle Pte., 5 – Edificio D, Alicante 03001, Alicante ES
This talk is part of the Distinguishes Lectures Mini-Workshop.