Early Detection of Risk Taking in Groups and Individuals

Abstract

Previous research in behavioral psychology offers potential methods for analyzing social media that can indicate thepresence of conditions conducive to risk-seeking. This project applies such methods to Twitter messages from a range of social events, some where disruption is present and others where it is not. The methodologies focus on message content and network connectedness. The results indicate that conditions conducive to risk-seeking are present in some social events, as assessed by linguistic markers that reflect the relative balance of reasoning and emotion, as well as emotion specific conditions relating to anger.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 25, 2016
Accession Number
AD1006974

Entities

People

  • Donald G. Macgregor

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Science
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Human Behavior
  • Language
  • Media
  • Personality
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Social Media
  • Social Networks
  • Thinking

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.