speaking the language of personality
Nick Holtzman and I have a very short piece in the latest ARP (Association for Research in Personality) newsletter. We touch on some recent work at the interface of personality and language, including Nick’s work on narcissism, Mathias Mehl and Simine Vazire‘s work with the Electronically-Activated Recorder (EAR), and a recent paper of mine that explored the relation between personality and word use in a large sample of bloggers (who knew bloggers had personalities!?). Then we speculate wildly about where this line of research might go in future. I find I quite enjoy speculating wildly; it’s much more pleasant than having to write factually correct, well-researched sentences.
At any rate, facts or no facts, I think it’s a nice (and short) read. And I think I can say that without much bias, since I mostly just lounged around while Nick did all the hard work.
Tags: bloggers, EAR, language, narcissism, personality
