Introduction: From The Princess Bride to Computational Personality

(Reiner and Scheinman in The princess bride. ACT III Communications, USA, 1987 ) is a wonderful romantic fantasy directed by Rob Reiner. The film’s characters, such as the Spanish fencer Inigo Montoya, who is seeking to revenge the death of his father, ha

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Computational Personality Analysis Introduction, Practical Applications and Novel Directions

Computational Personality Analysis

Yair Neuman

Computational Personality Analysis Introduction, Practical Applications and Novel Directions

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Yair Neuman Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva Israel

ISBN 978-3-319-42458-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42460-6

ISBN 978-3-319-42460-6

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my colleagues and friends Pierre Levy, Fionn Murtagh, and Leonid Perlovsky for writing the endorsements; my research assistant Dan Assaf and my programmer Yochai Cohen for being my A-team for such a long time; my former student and present colleague Danny Livshits for involving me with fascinating professional challenges; Heim (Harvey) Hames, my friend, my new dean, and the head of the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters for generously supporting my research on self-hate; my colleagues Lucas Lacasa and Norbert Marwan for analyzing some of my data; Rafi Malach and Newton Howard for hosting me kindly for a sabbatical leave at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Oxford; and my editor Hazel Bird for professionally editing this book. This book is dedicated to my children—Yiftach, Yaara, and Tamar—who, beyond any academic landmark, are the most significant landmarks in my life.

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Introduction: From The Princess Bride to Computational Personality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .