Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect.

In one study of 530 people, published in the Journal of Personality Disorders, we analysed written essays about peoples’ close relationships. We also collected data on their levels of personality dysfunction. Those with greater personality dysfunction used language that carried a sense of urgency and self-focus – “I need…”, “I have to…”, “I am…”.

  • Caveman
    3·
    25 days ago

    Releasing this without an online tool to analyse your own data should be a crime.

    I want to take my Lemmy comments and check them to see if I’m a narcissist online.

    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
      3·
      24 days ago

      I want to feed convos from dating apps into it so I can bang tonnes of people with BPD and then bail before they can ruin my life.

      It would be an incredibly dangerous gambit but fortune favours the bold.