Can Tweets Predict Personality Traits and Emotional States?
The words we think are most innocuous could be indicators of what we think and believe — but they can also be cathartic.
How we communicate — specifically the words we use — can speak volumes about our personalities, values, and how we interact with the world. Now, there’s a tool that analyzes your Twitter activity to identify your emotional, social, and thinking styles.
Analyze Words was developed by James W. Pennebaker, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and focuses on the junk words we depend on in our language. These so-called junk words include pronouns (I, you, they), articles (a, an, the), prepositions (to, with, for) and other small words that hold together the nouns and regular verbs.
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