Table 1.
Aphra Behn plays included in the current analyses.
Table 2.
Results from the unmasking analysis.
Table 3.
Psychological process compositions.
Table 4.
Internal consistency of distance measures for each author.
Table 5.
Summary statistics and inter-item correlations for all distance measures calculated for the verified plays of Aphra Behn (i.e., excluding questioned plays).
Fig 1.
Visualized mental profile maps of 6 playwrights: a) Aphra Behn, b) Thomas Dekker, c) John Fletcher, d) Christopher Marlowe, e) William Shakespeare, and f) Lewis Theobald. Note: The center point (0,0) is the approximate “psychological center” for each playwright when collapsing across all 13 psychological process categories. Note that the projection of distance measures down to 2 dimensions does result in some distortion, and this graph should be interpreted as an approximation of the “true” location of each play. In other words, some plays may actually be somewhat closer to (or farther from) the center of each map than what the image may suggest.
Fig 2.
Visualized mental profile maps of Aphra Behn when including bogus plays by other playwrights.
Note: The blue diamond denotes the psychological center of each map. Bogus plays are circled in red and stand out considerably from the rest of the map in each case. Bogus plays include Dekker’s The Whore of Babylon (left), Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (middle), and Theobald’s The Fatal Secret (right).
Table 6.
Results of the MPM analysis.
Table 7.
MPM scores for plays marked with “Behn” authorship are the result of the MPM analysis that included only verified Behn plays. Works highlighted in yellow are those of questioned authorship. Higher Grand MPM scores are indicative of plays with a general low distance from center (i.e., a better fit with Behn’s mental profile map).
Fig 3.
Visualization of Behn’s mental profile map when including The Revenge (left), a play that shows a strong MPM score, and The Debauchee (right), a play that shows a weak MPM score. Note: In both maps, the blue diamond represents the composite center of the map. As with Figs 1 and 2, the locations of each play should be considered slightly distorted approximations.
Table 8.
Decomposed categories of psychological processes that showed particularly great distance from center for the 3 questioned plays with poor support (i.e., MPM scores < = 20) for Behn’s authorship.