In the r/AmITheAsshole subreddit, people anonymously share first person narratives that contain some moral dilemma or conflict and ask the community to judge who is at fault (i.e., who is "the asshole"). In general, first person narratives are a unique storytelling domain where the author is the narrator (the person telling the story) but can also be a character (the person living the story) and, thus, the author has two distinct voices presented in the story. In this study, we identify linguistic and narrative features associated with the author as the character or as a narrator. We use these features to answer the following questions: (1) what makes an asshole character and (2) what makes an asshole narrator? We extract both Author-as-Character features (e.g., demographics, narrative event chain, and emotional arc) and Author-as-Narrator features (i.e., the style and emotion of the story as a whole) in order to identify which aspects of the narrative are correlated with the final moral judgment. Our work shows that "assholes" as Characters frame themselves as lacking agency with a more positive personal arc, while "assholes" as Narrators will tell emotional and opinionated stories.

研究人员通过分析 r/AmITheAsshole 中的语言和叙事特点，确定了角色与叙述者的共性和区别，探究了导致道德判断的因素。结果表明，对于角色而言，缺乏能动性与积极个人历程会导致判断为“asshole”；对于叙述者而言，情感发泄和主观观点会使故事更具说服力。

作者作为角色和叙述者：解构来自r/AmITheAsshole Reddit社区的个人叙事