Self-Assessment: Can you identify personality traits from blogging words?
Self-Assessment: Can you identify personality traits from blogging words? (See related pages)
Activity: Can you identify personality traits from blogging words?
The source of this scale is: Steven L. McShane, University of Western Australia, based on information reported in: T. Yarkoni, "Personality in 100,000 Words: A Large-Scale Analysis of Personality and Word Use among Bloggers," Journal of Research in Personality 44, no. 3 (2010), 363-373.
Instructions
Below is a list of 25 words that were commonly found in several hundred weblogs. How often each word was used was associated with the blog author's personality.
Select the Big Five personality dimension of authors who are most likely to use each word in their weblogs. For example, select "extraversion" for words that you think are used more often by blog authors with high extraversion than by blog authors with other dominant personalities.
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