Psychopaths have a tendency to have flat affect in language. Psychopaths also use certain patterns of speech more commonly than others. The viewpoint of a psychopath is to view the world in an instrumental manner. The psychopath in other words views all as tools to be used. Remember Maslow's hierarchy of needs? Psychopaths may in fact have different focuses. Psychopaths due to being narcissistic have no real need for self actualization and only focus on lower level goals like material gain.
- Emotional related language vs instrumental language.
- How often they talk about lower level things (food, money).
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- Psychopaths use less intense emotional language.
- Psychopaths tend to talk a lot about what they ate or drank that day.
- Psychopaths talk a lot about money.
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Everything we do in the digital space leaves a trail. This is even more true on the blockchain where every communication, every exchange, every comment, every post, leaves clues for the machine intelligence to analyze in the future. This means that psychopaths can be potentially identified by language patterns on Steem by simply using the Steem blockchain as a data set in the same way Twitter was used in this experiment.
Call for an experiment
This is an active request to both build out the analysis SMT idea that I mentioned in the past and as the first use case (show case example) we take the data from the Steem blockchain and allow everyone to apply the machine intelligence to determine which accounts are likely to be psychopaths. This will produce a controversial yet attention grabbing result and also show some of the power (and vulnerability) of the transparency of Steem. Transparency in my opinion can be a good thing when used for science and for constructive purposes. Transparency is not such a good thing when used for destructive or "punitive" purposes like how it's mostly used currently on Steem.
How could transparency this be practically useful for women and men? If you're considering whether you would like to date someone would you like to know whether or not they present themselves in digital space as a psychopath does?
References
Goodboy, A. K., & Martin, M. M. (2015). The personality profile of a cyberbully: Examining the Dark Triad. Computers in human behavior, 49, 1-4.
Wald, R., Khoshgoftaar, T., & Sumner, C. (2012, August). Machine prediction of personality from Facebook profiles. In Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), 2012 IEEE 13th International Conference on (pp. 109-115). IEEE.
Sumner, C., Byers, A., Boochever, R., & Park, G. J. (2012, December). Predicting dark triad personality traits from twitter usage and a linguistic analysis of tweets. In Machine learning and applications (icmla), 2012 11th international conference on (Vol. 2, pp. 386-393). IEEE.
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