Discovering Affinity Relationships between Personality Types

Abstract: Psychology research findings suggest that personality is related to differences in friendship characteristics and that some personality traits correlate with linguistic behavior. In this paper, we investigate the influence that personality may have on affinity formation. To this end, we derive affinity relationships from social media interactions, examine personality based on language use to discover the emotional stability of affinity relationships, and measure semantic similarity at the personality type level to understand the logic behind the development of affinity. Specifically, we conduct extensive experiments using a publicly available dataset containing information on individuals who self-identified with a Myers-Briggs personality type. Our results identify certain influential personality types that weigh more heavily on affinity relationships and show that personality can be predicted from spontaneous language with an F-1 score superior to 0.76. Future research avenues are proposed.