James W. Pennebaker, Chair
The University of Texas at Austin, SEA 4.212, Austin, TX 78712 • (512) 475-7596
Do psychopaths tweet differently than other people?
Posted: July 18, 2012
The Online Privacy Foundation recently held a competition to determine if psychopathy can be assessed from Tweets. The experiment analyzed Tweets, and built on research that demonstrated a link between language and psychopathy. Some of the questions scored on ‘Big 5’ dimensions using a checklist devised by UT Psychology's Sam Gosling.
