Roman personality [ preprint ]

Would ancient Romans have recognized anything like the Big Five personality dimensions?

Burnett, M. I., & Atari, M.

PsyArXiv preprint

Language Analysis and the Chronospatial Revolution in Psychology [ conference presentation ]

Historical texts are a kind of cognitive fossil — they are a trace of how people of the past understood the world. We can use computational methods to process these traces into psychological data and test our theories on historical populations.

Burnett, M. I., & Atari, M.

APS Annual Convention · Barcelona

Who laughs at their own jokes? Metacognitive judgments of self-rated funniness in creative humor production tasks [ preprint ]

What individual differences predict self-rated funniness?

Bui, V., Burnett, M. I., & Silvia, P. J.

PsyArXiv preprint

Humor, personality, and online aggression on r/RoastMe [ symposium presentation ]

Gays and sluts… what insults do Reddit users direct at men versus women?

Burnett, M. I.

APA Division 10 Conference

Moral values on Capitol Hill: how moral foundations are represented across 300 years of Congress [ poster ]

How does endorsement of moral values change over time in the language of congresspeople?

Burnett, M. I., & Atari, M.

SPSP Annual Convention

Changes in the nomological network of personality over historical time [ datablitz ]

How has the number and content of personality traits changed over the last 300 years?

Burnett, M. I., & Atari, M.

SPSP Annual Convention

Brief assessment of the triarchic model of psychopathy: evaluating the short TriPM scales with exploratory graph analysis and item response theory [ published paper ]

Psychopathy has three dimensions — boldness, disinhibition, and meanness — how are they related?

Silvia, P. J., & Burnett, M. I.

Current Psychology, 45(6), 597

What's brown and sticky? Peering into the ineluctable comedic mystery of dad humor with a handful of machine learning models, hundreds of humans, and tens of thousands of dad jokes [ published paper ]

What makes a dad joke a dad joke? Thousands of jokes, human ratings, and machine-learning models brought to bear on the genre.

Silvia, P. J., & Burnett, M. I.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (in press)

Vulgarity and hilarity: the Dark Tetrad and HEXACO as predictors of creating aggressive, obscene, and otherwise offensive humor [ published paper ]

What traits predict making aggressive jokes? Mostly sadism, it turns out.

Burnett, M. I., & Silvia, P. J.

Journal of Research in Personality, 119, 104667

Funny $#!%: Predicting profanity use in creative humor production [ published paper ]

Who uses profanity in their humor? Younger people, people who think they're funnier.

Burnett, M. I., & Silvia, P. J.

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts