Handbook of Language Analysis in Psychology

Morteza Dehghani, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at the University of Southern California, and is on the faculty of the Brain and Creativity Institute. Dr. Dehghani's research relies on machine learning and natural language processing to explore cognitive and psychological traces in artifacts of social discourse. Specifically, his work investigates properties of moral cognition by analyzing language, in conjunction with behavioral studies. Dr. Dehghani is a recipient of the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and the Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Ryan L. Boyd, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Behavioral Analytics at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom, where he is a member of the Data Science Institute and of Security Lancaster. His research interests broadly revolve around how motives are revealed in language--that is, how people's everyday words provide clues to how they think, feel, and behave. Dr. Boyd's research spans topics ranging from personality to society, mental health, human sexuality, and storytelling. Dr. Boyd has authored dozens of free, open-source text analysis programs for social scientists and is an editor at PLOS One and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Language and Computation.