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 …

The kernel of truth in text-based personality assessment: A meta-analysis of the relations between the Big Five and the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC).

A Koutsoumpis, JK Oostrom, D Holtrop… - Psychological …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is a popular closed-vocabulary text
analysis software program that is used to understand whether individuals' use of linguistic …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond rating scales: With targeted evaluation, large language models are poised for psychological assessment

ONE Kjell, K Kjell, HA Schwartz - Psychiatry Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In this narrative review, we survey recent empirical evaluations of AI-based language
assessments and present a case for the technology of large language models to be poised …

Characterizing empathy and compassion using computational linguistic analysis.

DB Yaden, S Giorgi, M Jordan, A Buffone… - Emotion, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Many scholars have proposed that feeling what we believe others are feeling—often known
as “empathy”—is essential for other-regarding sentiments and plays an important role in our …

Divergent semantic integration (DSI): Extracting creativity from narratives with distributional semantic modeling

DR Johnson, JC Kaufman, BS Baker… - Behavior Research …, 2023 - Springer
We developed a novel conceptualization of one component of creativity in narratives by
integrating creativity theory and distributional semantics theory. We termed the new …

[HTML][HTML] Age and gender in language, emoji, and emoticon usage in instant messages

TK Koch, P Romero, C Stachl - Computers in Human Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Text is one of the most prevalent types of digital data that people create as they go about
their lives. Digital footprints of people's language usage in social media posts were found to …

Fifty years of research on leader communication: What we know and where we are going

EH Liu, CR Chambers, C Moore - The Leadership Quarterly, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the most important things leaders do is communicate. Though research on leaders'
communication has been active for half a century, to date there has been little effort to review …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond traditional interviews: Psychometric analysis of asynchronous video interviews for personality and interview performance evaluation using machine …

A Koutsoumpis, S Ghassemi, JK Oostrom… - Computers in Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the advent of new technology, traditional job interviews have been supplemented by
asynchronous video interviews (AVIs). However, research on psychometric properties of …

What is social psychology? The construal principle.

TD Wilson - Psychological Review, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Standard definitions of social psychology, such as “the study of the way in which people's
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other …

The Effects of the Training Sample Size, Ground Truth Reliability, and NLP Method on Language-Based Automatic Interview Scores' Psychometric Properties

L Hickman, J Liff, C Rottman… - Organizational …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
While machine learning (ML) can validly score psychological constructs from behavior,
several conditions often change across studies, making it difficult to understand why the …