Deep lexical hypothesis
Identifying personality structure in natural language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6205568 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew D Cutler (0000-0002-6616-8522, Boston University), David M Condon (0000-0002-8406-783X, University of Oregon, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 173-197 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/pspp0000443 |
| PMID | 36395036 |
| OpenAlex | W4309267672 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 66 |
Recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) have produced general models that can perform complex tasks such as summarizing long passages and translating across languages. Here, we introduce a method to extract adjective similarities from language models as done with survey-based ratings in traditional psycholexical studies but using millions of times more text in a natural setting. The correlational structure produced through this method is highly similar to that of self- and other-ratings of 435 English terms reported by Saucier and Goldberg (1996a). The first three unrotated factors produced using NLP are congruent with those in survey data, with coefficients of 0.89, 0.79, and 0.79. This structure is robust to many modeling decisions: adjective set, including those with 1,710 (Goldberg, 1982) and 18,000 English terms (Allport & Odbert, 1936); the query used to extract correlations; and language model. Notably, Neuroticism and Openness are only weakly and inconsistently recovered. This is a new source of signal that is closer to the original (semantic) vision of the lexical hypothesis. The method can be applied where surveys cannot: in dozens of languages simultaneously, with tens of thousands of items, on historical text, and at extremely large scale for little cost. The code is made public to facilitate reproduction and fast iteration in new directions of research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Adjective · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Natural language · Natural language processing · Neuroticism · Noun · Personality · Psycholinguistics · PsycINFO · Set (abstract data type) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Mental Health Research Topics · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 7,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |