Utilizing Social Media Data for Psychoanalysis to Study Human Personality

Frank Emmert-Streib; Olli Yli-Harja; Matthias Dehmer

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02596

Utilizing Social Media Data for Psychoanalysis to Study Human Personality

Frank Emmert-Streib^*
, Olli Yli-Harja
, Matthias Dehmer

^*Corresponding author for this work

Tampere University
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences
Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology
Nankai University

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Abstract

Social media data, for instance from Twitter or Facebook, provide a new type of data that consist of a mixture of text, image and video information. From a scientific point of view, the capabilities of this type of data from such microblogs are not well explored and to date it is largely unknown what principal knowledge can be extracted thereof. In this paper, we present a discussion of the capabilities of data from microblogs for performing a psychoanalysis. This could allow an analysis of the human personality of individual users. Such prospects raises serious concerns regarding the privacy of users of social media platforms.

Original language	English
Article number	2596
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02596
Publication status	Published - 15 Nov 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

computational social science
data science
privacy
psychoanalysis
psychology

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