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Circumplex Chart

This chart visualizes the agentic and communal leadership qualities through the analysis of a person's language. It offers an effective visual representation that provides a clear and immediate understanding of the leadership style conveyed in the text, enabling a nuanced interpretation of a person's approach to leadership.

The agentic and communal measures capture two primary ways of navigating social environments: agentic speakers emphasize pursuing personal goals; communal speakers emphasize building and maintaining relationships with other people. The two tendencies can operate together or alone, with all possible combinations together forming the Interpersonal Circumplex chart. Speakers who use highly agentic language are likely exerting willpower to pursue personal goals, indicating that they prioritize things individually and for personal motivations or desires. Using communal language suggests that a person is cooperating and connecting with others to improve social relationships, indicating that they are likely doing things with other people to help meet the group's goals. These two form the “Big Two” dimensions of social cognition.

For further information about the Interpersonal Circumplex, including details related to scoring and interpretation, see this page on our API documentation site.

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Parameters

  • The Group By drop-down menu allows you to set the column to use to group the chart’s data by selecting either the overall dataset or by a category such as speaker_name, speaker_id, or any category your dataset is labeled with. Note that you can type in this field to search and select an existing category.
Why can't I see my column in the Group By menu?

The Group By drop-down menu only contains categorical data fields. You can modify the data type of a column in your dataset so that it becomes available for analysis in charts within the Group By drop-down menu. More information can be found here.

  • The Add Filter tool allows you to filter by input values and select individual speakers/participants or smaller subsets of participants. To do so, select an input value in Filter Field such as speaker_name and choose the individual(s) from the list under is one of.