New paper: PsychAdapter, a method for conditioning language models on psychological traits. Big 5 personality, mental health, and more. Lightweight approach works across multiple model architectures. @handyschwartz.bsky.social @lyleungar.bsky.social @oscarkjell.bsky.social and others! rdcu.be/e6m8H
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Learn about #APS26BCN's Plenary Panel Sessions: The Future of Psychological Science, the Fall of Civilizations, & New Directions in AI & LLMs.
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Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.
One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.
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Completely agree with other replies. Descriptive work is necessary and foundational. We have to map out what we're studying + what it looks like before diving head-first into "how it works." Publishing it, on the other hand... editors/reviewers can be almost childishly hostile to this kind of work.
The LEADING reporting guideline is now published in Comprehensive Psychiatry 🥳
See www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Or read the previous summary 👇
This is an incredibly fun and cool paper. Congrats!
I refuse to run any fine-tuning method that can't be powered by AAA batteries.
🎺 Publication in JPSP 🎺
1/7 We automated the coding procedure of the implicit motives of power, achievement and affiliation with at least as high accuracy as human coders while being 99% faster! 🎯⚡️
Article: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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You're beginning the ascension to a new level of cool.
It pains me to say this, but I could *absolutely* imagine seeing this in print, verbatim.
Let's go ahead and get this thing published now so that we can spend the next 10 years muddying the literature and facilitating uncritical scholarship.
"How often do you use AI to help write messages to other people (e.g., emails)?"
"How often do you use AI to find answers to a question that don't know the answer to?"
"How often do you use AI for fun/enjoyment?"
1=never
3=sometimes
5=daily
But, but, but, it's going to have a passable Cronbach's alpha when tested on a sample of 100 people who are between the ages of 16 and 22. And just wait for the inevitable "brief" version of the measure comprised of only the 3 most eye-rollingly bad items.
Our new paper in PNAS Nexus. County morals > politics for carbon footprints? 🤯 We find that county-level values predict actual green behavior (emissions!), not just attitudes. Stronger than political leaning.
With all of the big announcements about AI-facilitated scientific research, like OpenAI's Deep Research and Google's AI co-scientist, it appears as though our thinky-piece on AI in the research process might be worth a re-read: www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
It's a wildly busy upcoming few days, but I genuinely love some good food for thought — I'm very much looking forward to giving it a read and continuing the conversation ☺️
our department at Lund University has a position for a PhD student.
feel free to reach out if you are interested in applying.
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Zero pressure whatsoever — they were mostly just some pre-caffeine early morning musings 😄
I'm glad to announce that I just started as co-Editor-in-chief of EPJ Data Science with @yelenamejova.bsky.social
Looking forward to building the community around one of my favorite journals!
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New blog post, and (I think?) my first one directly about LIWC-related things. More challenges, and thoughts, about sailing on the choppy seas of interdisciplinary scholarship. www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan...
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
Stimulation Clicker is the best thing you'll play today https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
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