Computational Social Scientist, Social/Personality Psychologist, and Generally Curious Person. University of Texas at Dallas. https://www.ryanboyd.io
Ryan Boyd
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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...
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...
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
🎺 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...
#personality
#AI
#NLProc
@apajournals.bsky.social
The LEADING reporting guideline is now published in Comprehensive Psychiatry 🥳
See www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Or read the previous summary 👇
any fan of Steamed Hams simply MUST watch My Dinner with Skinner
Learn more about the featured panel sessions taking place at #APS26BCN this May! https://www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/2026-aps-annual-convention/featured-speakers
@jwp001.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @dgarcia.eu @ryanboyd.io @nuriaoliver.com
The social sciences have long relied on comparative work as the foundation upon which we understand the complexities of human behavior and society. However, ...
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ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.
Learn about #APS26BCN's Plenary Panel Sessions: The Future of Psychological Science, the Fall of Civilizations, & New Directions in AI & LLMs.
www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...
@jwp001.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @dgarcia.eu @ryanboyd.io @nuriaoliver.com @angelagutchess.bsky.social
Accurate assessments of symptoms and illnesses are essential for health research and clinical practice but face many challenges. The absence of a sing…
1/6🔔New research!🔔
We developed the LEADING guideline to improve the reporting of best-estimate assessments ✨
With @katarinakjell.bsky.social, @handyschwartz.bsky.social, @jrboehnke.bsky.social, @eikofried.bsky.social, D Klein, P Gustafsson, I Augenstein, P Bossuyt, @oscarkjell.bsky.social
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@bobservo.bsky.social @talkinghenry.bsky.social to commemorate the 30th anniversary. This one is a full lenght movie.
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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Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...
