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The Complexity of Personality: From Snowden to Superman

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Up to now, I have criticized simple theoretical models of personality and the way in which the complexity of human personality has largely been ignored in personality research as well as in the field of computational personality. Let me try to describe personality by adopting a more complex, dynamic and one may even say radical approach.

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    http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/demo/alchemylanguage.

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    A wonderful example of this dynamic appears in Le Carré’s novel A Perfect Spy (1986).

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    Yair Neuman

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Neuman, Y. (2016). The Complexity of Personality: From Snowden to Superman. In: Computational Personality Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42460-6_8

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