Decoding Psychological Abuse: A Comparative Study of Natural Language Processing (NLP) Classifiers Using Reddit Data

Maya Ashkenazi, Jessica Lilly Neubauer, María Pérez-Ortiz, Enrico Mariconti, Leonie Maria Tanczer, Department of Computer Science, University College London, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London

Social Science Computer Review

Published online on April 15, 2026

Abstract

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Psychological abuse, a form of intimate partner violence (IPV), involves non-physical behaviors meant to control, humiliate, punish, or threaten a partner. Despite its strong link to other forms of abuse, scholarly disagreement makes its definition ...