英语描述人的词汇结构与历史

The English language is filled with words that are used to describe people, such as "nice," "skilled," "conservative," and "attractive." This broad trait space includes words that describe personality but also words that describe people's physical, sociodemographic, and ideological differences. Here we define trait space as the sum of stable, comparative, and socially meaningful descriptors and map this space by combining large language models, human ratings, and historical text analyses. Across four studies, we (a) introduce a comprehensive trait list (2,847 trait words); (b) establish normat