The Interconnectedness of Personality and Language Volume II

This is the second volume of a series dedicated to the Interconnectedness of Personality and Language. Articles published in the first edition of this series can be read and downloaded – here

Language (as conceptualized in empirical sciences) is the meeting point of individual differences and various research programs in psychology, either as a subject of study or as a methodological driving force. The convergence is arguably most striking in psycholexical studies in personality psychology and visible in experimental, correlational, and observational studies in psycholinguistics, social, cognitive, clinical, educational psychology, and other fields. The emerging importance of state-of-the-art methodologies, online and open-source resources, the reasserted necessity to revisit methodological issues in psycholexical studies, and the increasing interest in the dimensions of individual differences within psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology call for collaborative and cross-disciplinary research of personality- and language-related topics. Elementary bibliometric-informed research shows that the number of studies centered on both personality and language has substantially increased in the last year. Furthermore, the mentioned fields are connected on a fundamental level - by literature sources that all of them use. The conceptual overlap (visible by the co-word co-occurrence) likely stems from the shared foundations of diverse, but related disciplines.

The crucial goal of addressing the interplay between personality and language is multifold. Since the topic delves into an emerging field, general and specific research issues play important roles. On the most general level, it explores how the standard methodological and conceptual frameworks in personality and language studies can inform one another and outline an initial set of recommendations for future studies. On the conceptual level, our tentative goals are to explore a) variations in the structure of personality descriptors across traditional and non-traditional sources of information (e.g., human participants, linguistic corpora, and natural language); b) whether the dimensions of individual differences can contribute to the explanation of language-related phenomena (language acquisition, learning, and use); c) how does natural language processing with its accompanying methods and techniques contribute to the knowledge on personality. Regarding methodology, it would be crucial to evaluate both traditional and non-traditional methods and set recommendations for future research. We hope that the second edition of our collection will contribute to, and encourage, cross- and multi-disciplinary, as well as multi-method quality studies of personality -and- language-related issues. Quantitative, qualitative, and cross-methods studies are equally welcome and appreciated.

We welcome the contributions (original research papers, brief reports, study protocols, data reports) from the studies involving language and dispositional traits.

Some possible lines of research include:

- the psycholexical paradigm and primarily concerns the content, stability, and replicability of lexically-based personality dimensions;
- content and scope of personality-related information extracted from sources such as (but not limited to) web content, natural language, and linguistic corpora
- the personality-language relationship from the perspective of language acquisition and how are dimensions of individual differences (such as personality traits and dispositional cognitive features) related to phenomena such as language learning, bilingualism, and foreign language acquisition. How do such relationships reflect on cognition in general?
- replication studies, research integration studies, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews

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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Clinical Trial
• Community Case Study
• Conceptual Analysis
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Policy and Practice Reviews
• Policy Brief
• Registered Report
• Review
• Study Protocol
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: Individual Differences, Psycholexical Studies, Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, Personality Descriptors

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