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May 8, 2026Political AnalysisOpen Access

Text as Behavior

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Overview

The study demonstrates that text features can quantify behavior and psychological states, suggesting broader applications.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how text expression can be analyzed as behavior, capturing cognitive and emotional effort.
  • Proposed using basic statistics of open-ended tasks to assess text expression as behavior.
  • Investigated the impact of character count on estimating psychological states and voting behavior.
  • Explored methods that convert nonresponse data into useful information.
  • Findings suggest character count can effectively estimate candidate choice and voting probabilities.
  • Validated survey instruments can be derived from text analysis, enhancing data accuracy.
  • Demonstrated that this approach can function across various languages and real-world scenarios.

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Omar Wasow (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fd7e79bfa21ec5bbf06a90https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2026.10041
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