Conversation level syntax similarity metric

Boghrati, Reihane; Hoover, Joe; Johnson, Kate; Garten, Justin; Dehghani, Morteza

doi:10.3758/s13428-017-0926-2

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“…This is known as 'social signalling' which is a factor in a number of theories reviewed by Boghrati et al: Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT; Giles, 2008) and the interactive alignment model (Pickering and Garrod, 2004) … and other related theories posit that we adjust our verbal and non-verbal behaviors to maximize similarities between ourselves and others when we want to signal solidarity, and we maximize linguistic differences when trying to push others away (Shepard et al, 2001). (Boghrati et al, 2018(Boghrati et al, : 1056 The teenage Swedes this study obviously do not have the capacity to fully align their production with Rushdie, and we doubt that many L1 English speakers could either. Nevertheless, they are sensitive to many features of Rushdie's language and can social signal through their imitation of narrative perspective, word choices, imagery and even narrative outcome.…”

Section: Mimicry As a Form Of Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…Alignment can be evident through register, word choice, syntax, pronunciation and more. As Reihane Boghrati et al observe, ‘linguistic choices are critical components of a range of social interactions from group formation and maintenance … to sparking romance … and successful negotiations’ (2018: 1055). In short, mimicry is highly valued aspect of communication in L1 settings.…”

Section: Mimicry As a Form Of Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Creativity and cognition in fiction by teenage learners of English

Kokkola

Rydström²

2022

Language and Literature

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Learning a foreign language provides an entry point into the lives of cultural ‘others’, as does the reading of realistic fiction. Responding to the challenges of both tasks requires concerted cognitive effort, but also creativity. First, individuals need to override the automatic tendency to prioritise their own point of view and then, at least temporarily, imagine themselves into another’s position. When reading fiction, focalisation determines whose views the readers can access, but point of view is implicit in all language. L2 learners need to recognise and imitate the world view implicit in the target language. In this article, we present both skills – empathy and mimicry – as acts of creative cognition that develop from responding to literature. This article examines works of fiction written by 15–16-year-old Swedish learners of English in response to a short story by Salman Rushdie. The story contains culturally specific information, and the ending encourages readers to recognise their own assumptions alongside the focalising character. The study draws on cognitive narratology to examine the Swedish learners’ fiction in terms of empathy and mimicry. The aims of the analyses are to determine how the short story and task design promote creative cognition, and to identify where the learners reveal a lack of understanding or an over-reliance on stereotypes.

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Section: Mimicry As a Form Of Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 80%

Section: Mimicry As a Form Of Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creativity and cognition in fiction by teenage learners of English

Kokkola

Rydström²

2022

Language and Literature

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“…One possible technique involves observing similarities in the language style (the way in which words are used and sentences are structured) between the client (e.g., person with personality disorder) and therapist. A language style matching (LSM) score can be quantified to empirically measure this (Gonzales et al, 2010), as can several other NLP techniques, such as conversation-level syntax similarity metric (CASSIM; Boghrati et al, 2018). Importantly, language style similarities are thought to map on to the interpersonal coordination of psychological states (Ireland & Pennebaker, 2010).…”

Section: Improving the Treatment Of Personality Disordermentioning

confidence: 99%

Personality Disorder and Verbal Behavior

Entwistle¹,

Marceau²,

Boyd³

2021

Preprint

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Today, the development of new technologies means that there are many advanced tools that can be used to improve our understanding of personality disorder, and, in turn, the treatment of personality disorder. One particularly promising tool — indeed, the focus of this chapter — is computerized language analysis. Through the exploration and analysis of verbal behavior, it is possible to empirically develop new insights into personality disorder, broadly defined. That is, by looking at patterns in the way that people with personality disorder use language — the words that they use and the way in which they use them — we can gain access into their broad constellation of thinking, feelings, and behaviors, as well as how precisely each of these features contributes to their pathology.To date, however, there has been very little research at the intersection of verbal behavior and personality pathology. Accordingly, the goal of this chapter is to describe and discuss how personality disorder may become better understood through the application of natural language analysis, providing a rough roadmap for the development of personality disorder studies using modern methods. Specifically, in this chapter we will provide:1. A brief background and overview of personality disorder;2. An overview of how natural language processing (NLP) methods have advanced understanding within the wider field of psychology, focusing on personality psychology and psychopathology specifically; 3. Examples that demonstrate how NLP methods can help to resolve some of the fundamental, unanswered questions and debates in the personality disorder literature.

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“…Analyzing natural language useparticularly fictional language use-is much rarer in psychology departments, despite fictional texts' psychometric value as a source of abundant quantifiable behavioral data. In this respect, researchers from linguistics (e.g., Davies, 2008) and computer science (e.g., Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil & Lee, 2011;Pakhomov, Chacon, Wicklund, & Gundel, 2011) have been more adventurous, although computational linguists are traditionally trained to prioritize prediction and classification over psychological insights (for counterexamples, see computational social scientists; e.g., Boghrati, Hoover, Johnson, Garten, & Dehghani, 2018;Lazer et al, 2009;Park et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Genre-typical narrative arcs in films are less appealing to lay audiences and professional film critics

Nalabandian

Ireland

2018

Behav Res

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People tend to like stimuli-ranging from human faces to text-that are prototypical, and thus easily processed. However, recent research has suggested that less typical stimuli may be preferred in creative contexts, such as fine art or music lyrics. In an archival sample of movie scripts, we tested whether genre-typicality predicted film ratings as a function of rater role (novice audience member or expert film critic). Genre-typicality was operationalized as the profile correlations between linguistic arcs (across five segments, or acts) for each script and within-genre averages. We predicted (1) that critics would prefer more disfluent (genreatypical) films and general audiences would prefer fluent (genre-typical) films, and (2) that these differences would be most pronounced for genres expected to be more entertaining (e.g., action/adventure) than challenging (e.g., tragedy). Partly consistent with our hypotheses, the results showed that critics gave higher ratings to action/adventure films with less typical positive emotion arcs. However, regardless of audience-member or professional-critic status, higher ratings were attributed to films that were more genre-atypical (or disfluent), in terms of analytic thinking, narrative action, and emotional tone, across all genres except family/kids films. Such findings support the growing literature on the appeal of disfluency in the arts and have relevance for researchers in psychology and computer science who are interested in computational linguistic approaches to attitudes, film, and literature.

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Conversation level syntax similarity metric

Cited by 17 publications

References 73 publications

Creativity and cognition in fiction by teenage learners of English

Creativity and cognition in fiction by teenage learners of English

Personality Disorder and Verbal Behavior

Genre-typical narrative arcs in films are less appealing to lay audiences and professional film critics

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