Handbook on the Science of Early Literacy

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the use of computerized text analysis methods to address basic psychological questions. This comprehensive handbook brings together leading language analysis scholars to present foundational concepts and methods for investigating human thought, feeling, and behavior using language. Contributors work toward integrating psychological science with natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. Ethical issues in working with natural language datasets are discussed. The volume showcases applications in areas including interpersonal relationships, personality, morality, deception, social biases, political psychology, and psychopathology.