Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America ; Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2013 Sep 25;8(9):e73791. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073791. eCollection 2013.
We analyzed 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances collected from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers, who also took standard personality tests, and found striking variations in language with personality, gender, and age. In our open-vocabulary technique, the data itself drives a comprehensive exploration of language that distinguishes people, finding connections that are not captured with traditional closed-vocabulary word-category analyses. Our analyses shed new light on psychosocial processes yielding results that are face valid (e.g., subjects living in high elevations talk about the mountains), tie in with other research (e.g., neurotic people disproportionately use the phrase 'sick of' and the word 'depressed'), suggest new hypotheses (e.g., an active life implies emotional stability), and give detailed insights (males use the possessive 'my' when mentioning their 'wife' or 'girlfriend' more often than females use 'my' with 'husband' or 'boyfriend'). To date, this represents the largest study, by an order of magnitude, of language and personality.
我们分析了从 75000 名志愿者的 Facebook 消息中收集到的 7 亿个单词、短语和主题实例，这些志愿者还接受了标准的个性测试，发现语言在个性、性别和年龄方面存在显著差异。在我们的开放式词汇技术中，数据本身驱动了对语言的全面探索，这种探索可以区分人群，发现传统的封闭式词汇词类分析无法捕捉到的联系。我们的分析为社会心理过程提供了新的视角，得出的结果具有直观性（例如，居住在高海拔地区的人会谈论山脉），与其他研究结果相吻合（例如，神经质的人过度使用“sick of”和“depressed”这两个词），提出了新的假设（例如，积极的生活意味着情绪稳定），并提供了详细的见解（男性在提到他们的“妻子”或“女朋友”时比女性更频繁地使用“my”，而女性在提到“丈夫”或“男朋友”时则较少使用“my”）。到目前为止，这是语言和个性方面规模最大的研究，数量级提高了一个数量级。
