Using large language models in psychology

D Demszky, D Yang, DS Yeager, CJ Bryan… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Large language models (LLMs), such as OpenAI's GPT-4, Google's Bard or Meta's LLaMa,
have created unprecedented opportunities for analysing and generating language data on a …

Using natural language processing to understand people and culture.

J Berger, G Packard - American Psychologist, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Language can provide important insights into people, and culture more generally.
Further, the digitization of information has made more and more textual data available. But …

Essay content and style are strongly related to household income and SAT scores: Evidence from 60,000 undergraduate applications

AJ Alvero, S Giebel, B Gebre-Medhin, AL Antonio… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
There is substantial evidence of the relationship between household income and
achievement on the standardized tests often required for college admissions, yet little …

Social media conversations reveal large psychological shifts caused by COVID-19's onset across US cities

A Ashokkumar, JW Pennebaker - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
The current research chronicles the unfolding of the early psychological impacts of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by analyzing Reddit language from 18 US cities …

Understanding the effects of the textual complexity on government communication: Insights from China's online public service platform

L Lu, J Xu, J Wei - Telematics and Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
While texts are the primary carriers of information for government decision making, few
studies have examined the role of textual complexity in government-citizen communication …

Using natural language processing to analyse text data in behavioural science

S Feuerriegel, A Maarouf, D Bär, D Geissler… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
Abstract Language is a uniquely human trait at the core of human interactions. The
language people use often reflects their personality, intentions and state of mind. With the …

Linguistic markers of inherently false AI communication and intentionally false human communication: Evidence from hotel reviews

DM Markowitz, JT Hancock… - Journal of Language …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
To the human eye, AI-generated outputs of large language models have increasingly
become indistinguishable from human-generated outputs. Therefore, to determine the …

Self-presentation in medicine: How language patterns reflect physician impression management goals and affect perceptions

DM Markowitz - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper evaluated how physicians' communication patterns reflect their self-presentation
goals and link to patient perceptions. Specifically, in a large field study (N= 54,420 profiles …

The social effects of an awesome solar eclipse

SP Goldy, NM Jones, PK Piff - Psychological Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Astronomical events such as solar eclipses have played a transformative role in human
social collectives as sources of collective wonder, inspiration, and reconciliation. Do …

Behavioral consequences of second-person pronouns in written communications between authors and reviewers of scientific papers

Z Sun, CC Cao, S Liu, Y Li, C Ma - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Pronoun usage's psychological underpinning and behavioral consequence have fascinated
researchers, with much research attention paid to second-person pronouns like “you,”“your,” …