Personality

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  September 3, 2024

  Yes, You Can Predict Loan Default from Loan Application Text

  This study shows that analyzing text from online loan requests can improve predictions of loan default by revealing insights into borrowers' psychological and personality traits. Incorporating Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) analysis into predictive models provides a more nuanced view of borrower risk and significantly enhances accuracy, potentially boosting lenders' ROI by up to 5.75% compared to models relying solely on financial and demographic data.

  • Personality
  • Finance
  • Psycholinguistics
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  May 24, 2024

  The Right Data Source for Personality Insights: LinkedIn vs. Interviews

  This blog post explores how LinkedIn language and interview language provide different insights into an individual's personality and psychology.

  • Social Media
  • Personality
  • Interviewing
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  March 12, 2024

  Enhancing Objectivity of Hiring Decisions with Objective Psychological Insights

  To enhance the objectivity of hiring decisions, Receptiviti demonstrates how to uncover insights into candidates’ psychology by analyzing language from their interviews.

  • Leadership
  • Personality
  • Cognitive Processes
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  August 31, 2023

  How Many Interactions Are Needed to Capture a Personality?

  Personality is a paradox. On one hand, people are more or less consistent in the ways they engage with the world. On the other hand, personality can be fluid, developing over time and fluctuating in response to aspects of our physical and social environments. So, when using language to measure personality, how much language and how many interactions are required to generate a stable profile of a person’s personality?

  • Personality
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  March 28, 2023

  Analyzing CEO Psychology Using Earnings Call Transcripts: Musk vs. Barra

  We compared the language-based personalities of Tesla’s Elon Musk and GM’s Mary Barra using the unscripted portions of their earnings calls.

  • Leadership
  • Personality
  • Leadership Styles
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  January 3, 2023

  Your Personality Assessment Isn't Objective

  Personality assessments are subjective. Why? Because they rely on the assessment-taker's perception of themselves - biases, insecurities and all. To fix the limitations of self-reporting, assessments must integrate more objective and implicit measures of personality.

  • Personality
  • Assessment