biostudies-literatureUnknown13Spitzley LAThis investigation sought to find the relationships among multiple dimensions of personality and multiple features of language style. Unlike previous investigations, after controlling for such other moderators as culture and socio-demographics, the current investigation explored those dimensions of naturalistic spoken language that most closely align with communication. In groups of five to eight players, participants (<i>N</i> = 340) from eight international locales completed hour-long competitive games consisting of a series of ostensible missions. Composite measures of quantity, lexical diversity, sentiment, immediacy and negations were measured with an automated tool called SPLICE and with Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. We also investigated style dynamics over the course of an inteFrontiers in psychology887616https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9523152biostudies-literatureLinguistic measures of personality in group discussions.PMC9523152Ge SWang XChen XDunbar NESpitzley LABurgoon JKfalseLinguistic measures of personality in group discussions.This investigation sought to find the relationships among multiple dimensions of personality and multiple features of language style. Unlike previous investigations, after controlling for such other moderators as culture and socio-demographics, the current investigation explored those dimensions of naturalistic spoken language that most closely align with communication. In groups of five to eight players, participants (<i>N</i> = 340) from eight international locales completed hour-long competitive games consisting of a series of ostensible missions. Composite measures of quantity, lexical diversity, sentiment, immediacy and negations were measured with an automated tool called SPLICE and with Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count. We also investigated style dynamics over the course of an inte2022-01-01T00:00:00Z20222025-04-22T03:33:11.802Z2025-04-05T20:45:56.804ZS-EPMC95231523618630510.3389/fpsyg.2022.887616