TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - The Grievance Dictionary: understanding threatening language use
JO  - Behavior research methods
A1  - van der Vegt, Isabelle
A1  - Mozes, Maximilian
A1  - Kleinberg, Bennett
A1  - Gill, Paul
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - This paper introduces the Grievance Dictionary, a psycholinguistic dictionary that can be used to automatically understand language use in the context of grievance-fueled violence threat assessment. We describe the development of the dictionary, which was informed by suggestions from experienced threat assessment practitioners. These suggestions and subsequent human and computational word list generation resulted in a dictionary of 20,502 words annotated by 2318 participants. The dictionary was validated by applying it to texts written by violent and non-violent individuals, showing strong evidence for a difference between populations in several dictionary categories. Further classification tasks showed promising performance, but future improvements are still needed. Finally, we provide instructions and suggestions for the use of the Grievance Dictionary by security professionals and (violence) researchers.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1554-351X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01536-2
ID  - ref1
ER  -