Linguistic markers of moderate and absolute natural language.

ABSTRACT: In social, personality and mental health research, the tendency to select absolute end-points on Likert scales has been linked to certain cultures, lower intelligence, lower income and personality/mental health disorders. It is unclear whether this response style reflects an absolutist cognitive style or is merely an experimental artefact. In this study, we introduce an alternative, more informative, flexible and ecologically valid approach for estimating absolute responding, that uses natural language markers. We focussed on 'function words' (e.g. particles, conjunctions, prepositions) as they are more generalizable because they do not depend on any specific context. To identify such linguistic markers and test their generalizability, we conducted a text analysis of online reviews for fil

SUBMITTER: Al-Mosaiwi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6085512 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature