This handbook contains 31 chapters by psychology and other scholars from the US, Australia, Canada, and Europe, who discuss the use of language analysis in psychology research. They explore methods used for text analysis in psychology, then language-based techniques and applications for investigating conversations, political psychology, morality, deception and lying, personality and individual differences, affect and sentiment, public health and well-being, and judgment and biases, as well as ethical issues and aspects like intergrouping and aging, text and discourse with humans and computers, and computer-based language analysis. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the use of computerized text analysis methods to address basic psychological questions. This comprehensive handbook brings together leading language analysis scholars to present foundational concepts and methods for investigating human thought, feeling, and behavior using language. Contributors work toward integrating psychological science and theory with natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. Ethical issues in working with natural language data sets are discussed in depth. The volume showcases NLP-driven techniques and applications in areas including interpersonal relationships, personality, morality, deception, social biases, political psychology, psychopathology, and public health.