Linguistic Indicators of Psychopathy and Malignant Narcissism in the Personal Letters of the Austrian Killer Jack Unterweger

Forensic authorship profiling aims to extract socio-demographic information about the authors of anonymous texts based on linguistic features found in their written texts. One aspect such a profile that is not usually considered an analysis author’s personality traits. The present study intends provide starting point for research into this area. This will be achieved through investigation reflective conditions psychopathy and malignant narcissism 14 personal letters killer Jack Unterweger. Previous field psychology has largely examined “psychopathic” “narcissistic” language spoken conversations rather than ones, or produced respective naturally occurring findings thus diverge from previous some aspects (e.g., use first-person pronouns), while they support others incoherence thoughts changes topics).