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¹Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

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Area of Science:

Computational linguistics
Psychological assessment
Artificial intelligence

Background:

Natural Language Processing (NLP) advances enable novel personality assessment methods.
Explainable AI (XAI) techniques like Integrated Gradients can scrutinize NLP decision-making.
Verifying NLP alignment with established personality theories is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate NLP models' decision-making in personality assessment using XAI.
To compare typological (MBTI) and dimensional (Big Five) personality models.
To verify NLP findings against established personality theories.

Main Methods:

Utilized Essays and MBTI datasets for personality classification.
Applied log-odds ratio with Informative Dirichlet Prior (IDP).
Employed fine-tuned transformer models (BERT, RoBERTa) for text analysis.

Main Results:

Achieved moderate to high accuracy in personality prediction from text.
NLP models identified personality signals consistent with prior research.
Discovered theory-coherent language patterns linked to personality traits.
Identified significant biases within the MBTI dataset, impacting robustness.

Conclusions:

NLP shows strong potential for advancing personality psychology.
Explainable AI enhances transparency and trust in NLP-based assessments.
Further interdisciplinary research is needed to leverage transparent AI in psychology.