Intro & Aims
This person was the lead author of the article.
Who is Nicholas S. Holtzman?
This is the amount of data sets that were analyzed.
What is 15?
Sports phrases, Second-person pronouns, and swear words.
What are the most positively correlated words or phrases with narcissism?
The authors start the discussion by bringing attention to this (the fifth most correlated category with narcissism)
What is narcissism and sexual word use?
"Total knockout performance"
What is something a narcissist would say?
Relatively little is known of this personality trait and word use.
What is Narcissism?
N=4,941
What is the number of participants?
Anxiety or fear words, tentative words, and senses words.
What are the most negatively correlated words or phrases with narcissism?
This might be an explanation for the correlation between narcissism and swearing.
What is narcissistic people tend to be more disagreeable?
"I don’t give a s***"
What is something a narcissist would say?
This program is regarded as one of the most common and validated approaches to studying word use in social and personality psychology.
What is the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count program?
These two languages appeared in the study.
What is English and German?
This many LIWC categories were statistically significant out of 72.
What is 17?
Saying things like, "maybe", "perhaps" or "guess".
What are things a narcissist typically wouldn't say?
"Perhaps we should wait"
What is something a narcissist would not say?
The researchers excluded this category because they do not appear in transcriptions of spoken language.
What are emoticons?
Data was collected from this well known measure of Narcissism.
What is the Narcissistic Personality Inventory?
The authors found these first between narcissism and 72 LIWC categories.
What are weighted correlations?
This was a reason why anxiety and fear words were negatively correlated with narcissism.
"Home is where I heal"
What is something a narcissist would not say?
Robust LIWC correlates were found with this personality trait in prior research (suggesting the same could be done with narcissism).
What is extroversion or disagreeableness?
The researchers did this to enhance readability and to avoid displaying massive amounts of LIWC effects.
What is focused on the 15 most positive and 15 most negative LIWC correlates of narcissism?
r=0.0194
What is the overall association between narcissism and LIWC?
Results were connected to prior research which linked narcissism with this reluctance to put your feelings out there.
What is invulnerability?
"She couldn't resist me"
What is something a narcissist would say?