ICPS

2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023

Assessing Spoken Language Correlates of Mental Illness Using Youtube Vlogs

Brussels, Belgium · March 2023

poster · Linguistics

  • Aksinia Zhurba
    Aksinia
  • Nadine Braun
    Tilburg University
  • Frederic Tomas
    Tilburg University
  • Martijn Goudbeek
    Tilburg University

Abstract

Depressed people and non-depressed people differ in their language (Al-Mosaiwi & Johnstone, 2018). However, this finding is almost entirely based on written language studies. To investigate the spoken language correlates of depression, a collection of (English-speaking) vlogs of depressed and non-depressed YouTubers is presented and analyzed.

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