psychology

The article examines the link between working memory and consciousness, discussing how working memory's limitations and the 'doorway effect' might contribute to our conscious experience.

This paper investigates linguistic distancing as an indicator of emotion regulation across age groups using social media text, finding that linguistic distancing increases with age, consistent with improved well-being in older adults.

auto-psych is an agent-based system that automates theory discovery and experimentation in computational cognitive science, using LLM agents to generate hypotheses, design experiments, and analyze data from crowdsourced participants. It demonstrates faster and better theory generation compared to human-derived theories in a classic psychology paradigm.

The article explains how the human brain's evolutionary negativity bias makes it ill-suited for the constant stream of bad news in the modern digital era, leading to widespread news avoidance and problematic news consumption.

Explores the psychological reality of AI democratizing innovation, examining how non-experts can now drive breakthroughs and the resulting imposter syndrome from relying on AI for execution.

Dan Shipper argues that AI models like GPT-4 can replace human intuition in fields like psychology where scientific explanations are lacking, advocating for using AI to drive progress even without full understanding.

This paper introduces variable-centered empirical graph extraction for psychology abstracts, constructing the EmpiriGraph-Psy benchmark dataset of 210 annotated abstracts and a staged LLM pipeline that achieves a macro-F1 of 0.74, outperforming direct extraction methods.

A mental health professional argues that AI, when properly prompted, can offer surprisingly effective therapeutic advice and personalization, sometimes surpassing traditional therapy in nuance and accessibility, especially for neurodivergent individuals.

Psychologist Gloria Mark's research shows that attention spans have shrunk from 2.5 minutes in 2003 to 47 seconds by 2020, and she warns that AI chatbots may worsen this trend. The article highlights the stress of frequent task switching and legal actions against social media companies for addictive products.

A study finds that walking may boost creative thinking compared to sitting, suggesting physical activity can enhance cognitive processes.

This paper introduces a behavioral induction framework that fine-tunes language models on structured decision-making tasks to induce stable, context-general shifts in generative distributions, modeling pathology-like behavioral patterns such as depression and paranoia.

This paper proposes SoVA, a framework using GraphRAG to align LLM-based agents with human social values by converting psychological theories into prescriptive instructions. Experiments on the DAILYDILEMMAS benchmark show significant improvements over prompt-based baselines.

The article analyzes the psychological phenomenon of users forming emotional attachments to AI agents, discussing concepts like social surrogacy and expectancy violation theory, and how this impacts user experience in professional settings.