Computational Approaches for Personality Prediction

doi:10.1017/9781316676202.013

13 - Computational Approaches for Personality Prediction

from Part II - Machine Analysis of Social Signals

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2017

Bruno Lepri and

Fabio Pianesi

Edited by

Judee K. Burgoon ,

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann ,

Maja Pantic and

Alessandro Vinciarelli

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Bruno Lepri: Affiliation:
Bruno Kessler Foundation
Fabio Pianesi: Affiliation:
Bruno Kessler Foundation
Judee K. Burgoon: Affiliation:
University of Arizona
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann: Affiliation:
Université de Genève
Maja Pantic: Affiliation:
Imperial College London
Alessandro Vinciarelli: Affiliation:
University of Glasgow

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Introduction

In everyday life, people usually describe others as being more or less talkative or sociable, more or less angry or vulnerable to stress, more or less planful or behaviorally controlled. Moreover, people exploit these descriptors in their everyday life to explain and/or predict others’ behavior, attaching them to well-known as well as to new acquaintances. In all generality, the attribution of stable personality characteristics to others and their usage to predict and explain their behavior is a fundamental characteristics of human naive psychology (Andrews, 2008).

As agents that in increasingly many and varied ways participate in and affect the lives of humans, computers need to explain and predict their human parties’ behavior by, for example, deploying some kind of naive folk-psychology in which the understanding of people's personality can reasonably be expected to play a role. In this chapter, we address some of the issues that attempts at endowing machines with the capability of predicting people's personality traits.

Scientific psychology has developed a view of personality as a higher-level abstraction encompassing traits, sets of stable dispositions toward action, belief, and attitude formation. Personality traits differ across individuals, are relatively stable over time, and influence behavior. Between-individual differences in behavior, belief, and attitude can therefore be captured in terms of the dispositions/personality traits that are specific to each individual, in this way providing a powerful descriptive and predictive tool that has been widely exploited by, for example, clinical and social psychology, educational psychology, and organizational studies.

The search for personality traits has been often pursued by means of factor-analytic studies applied to lists of trait adjectives, an approach based on the lexical hypothesis (Allport & Odbert, 1936), which maintains that the most relevant individual differences are encoded into the language, and the more important the difference, the more likely it is to be expressed as a single word.

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Information: Social Signal Processing , pp. 168 - 182

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