Computational Personality Analysis: Introduction, Practical Applications and Novel Directions

Acknowledgments.- Introduction: From The Princess Bride to computational personality.- Personality in a nutshell: Understanding who we are.- Computational personality analysis: When the machine meets the psychologist.- Distributional semantics and personality: How to find a perpetrator in a haystack.- Themes of personality: Profiling a political leader.- Going beyond words: How the Sisters of Mercy may identify psychopaths.- Hidden textual themes: Into Shakespeare's mind.- The complexity of personality: From Snowden to Superman.-  Attractors of personality: A murderer, a terrorist and some angry Jews.- Taking complexity a step forward: The reversibility of the pedophile's mind.- Discussion.- Appendix.- Author index.- Subject index.