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Through the media, we are recurrently exposed to psychological profiles of political leaders. In this chapter, I illustrate the way in which computational personality may be applied to the profiling of political leaders. Analyzing a single speech given by a former Egyptian president, I show how textual motifs can be extracted from the text and teach us about the personality of the leader.
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Neuman, Y. (2016). Themes of Personality: Profiling a Political Leader. In: Computational Personality Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42460-6_5
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