Care to Share: Emotional Language Use as a Function of Psychopathic Traits in Violent Youth Offenders
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by interpersonal, affective, behavioural, and antisocial characteristics. Notably, a lack of empathy and perceived deficits in emotion. As language is considered to be a habitual and reliable way in which emotion is expressed (Tausczik & Pennebaker, 2010), assessing emotional language use as a function of psychopathic traits can highlight differences in how emotion-related words are used by this population. In a sample of male incarcerated violent youth offenders assessed for psychopathy using the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (Forth et al., 2003), the frequency, intensity, and polarity of emotion-related words and disfluencies in speech were explored using linguistic analysis software SEANCE (Crossley et al., 2017). Using both dimensional and categorical conceptualizations of psychopathy, more psychopathic traits were significantly associated with an increased frequency of emotion-related language and a lower use of filled pauses in speech. Results are contrary to emotion-deficit hypotheses of psychopathy, warranting further exploration into the verbal expression of emotions as representing interpersonal processes versus affective deficits.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".