niederhoffer2017

niederhoffer2017#

Niederhoffer et al., 2017, CLPsych In your wildest dreams: the language and psychological features of dreams doi: 10.18653/v1/W17-3102

PDF available at https://aclanthology.org/W17-3102.pdf.

Zenodo deposit: 10.5281/zenodo.11293797

Available tables#

  • table1 — Linguistic Processes Categories in LIWC2015.

  • table2 — Top and Bottom Five dream Topics on CDI continuum.

  • table3 — Most positively and negatively-correlated topics for each emotion.

  • appendixA — Full list of LDA topics.

  • appendixB — Sample dreams by CDI.

Preview#

import extracts

df = extracts.fetch_niederhoffer2017("table1")
df.head()
Downloading file 'table1.tsv' from 'doi:10.5281/zenodo.11293797/table1.tsv' to '/home/runner/.cache/extracts/niederhoffer2017'.
Dreams (n=9,678) Expressive Writing (n=6,179)
Mean SD Mean SD
Word Count 208.85 116.61 408.94 248.23
Words per sentence 30.34 40.49 18.42 14.89
Words < 6 letters 11.66 3.41 13.62 4.12
Dictionary words 91.87 4.06 91.93 5.03
Total Function Words 60.04 4.32 58.27 6.26
df.shape
(24, 4)

Versions#

from extracts._common import DATASETS

DATASETS["niederhoffer2017"]
{'latest': '11293797', 'v1': '11293798', 'v2': '11357309'}

Notes#

I corrected a typo in Table 2 (plave -> plane). The correct spelling is “plane”, as you can see it in the corresponding Topic in Appendix A.