I just heard a PhD student say "I just need to get through one more week and then things will be less busy..." I didn't have the heart to say anything

Here are our prompts for educators and students, released under Creative Commons license. They are built around the pedagogical approaches we discuss in our papers, and have worked well in class. I hope others experiment with them, improve them, & share. moreusefulthings.com

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Super fun project on investigating the prediction behavior of LLMs from a psychological perspective🧠 🚨GPT-4 can fall into a cognitive trap and make mistakes even when it has the correct knowledge, like us humans🤯 ✅A simple hint helps Check out our paper for more details👇

A fascinating paradox: People rate AI responses to their emotional problems as more empathic than human responses, but not if they *know* the response comes from AI. They feel most "heard" by an AI they think is human, least by a human they think is AI. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Many people have no idea how these things work. For example, right now, as a Brazilian, I can't accept invitations to speak at conferences in Europe because my visa to work in the U.S. has expired. I am not illegal; I have a work contract with the University of California until

See what our “always online” group just put out! 🤓This was our international March madness for the win! 🏆Catch me at #siop24 or @guenolen at #imps24 or anyone on the team anywhere to chat more about LLM psychometrics! 🚀

#WCP2024 (personality) and #SIOP2024 (I/O psych) conferences were back-to-back. Research silos are a major pet peeve, so here's a comparison 🧵to facilitate conversations between the two. (1/16)

Wonderful thread! But wanna particularly highlight this one. *bow in crowd fave* 🤓

A feature on K-State’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and Date Science (#CAIDS), a consortium of labs led by our colleague Pascal Hitzler, PI of DaSe Lab. This article also covers the work of Hande Kucuk McGinty & Tianjun Sun.

Because the Psych Job Wiki is ending, I’ve worked with Amedee Martella to create a new Psych Job Wiki for the 2024-25 academic job cycle! This site has TT jobs, non-TT jobs, and postdoc positions. Feel free to spread the word, use the site, and contribute: sites.google.com/view/psychjobw…

The IRT Song, another Psychometric Jazz hit dropping in your timeline. "In the land of stars and stripes, they turned away, From Rasch's simple truths, they chose a complex way, Item Response Theory, oh what a tangled dance, They missed the Rasch measurement advantage,

where do I find a first-year like this 🙏

On putting the horse (raters and criteria) before the cart (variance components in ratings) | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4cHSOkg Congratulations to Pengda Wang and Hwayeon Meyong!

I'm excited to share that Rice is hiring TWO new faculty members in Cognitive Neuroscience (1 Assistant level, 1 Associate/Full)! Asst ad: apply.interfolio.com/153086 Assoc/full ad: apply.interfolio.com/153384 Please share, and reach out if you have questions!

Excited to share our (John Rauthmann & I) new paper on the landscape of personality-psychological publications in the last 2 decades, accepted at JPSP! osf.io/preprints/psya… (1/15)

🚨PhD Opportunities!🚨 I'm recruiting 1-2 #PhD students for Fall 2025 in #IOPsych Rice Social Sciences Rice University! 🏅 Interested in #personnelselection, #personalityscience, #AI, & #psychometrics? Join our SMART Lab! 💻👥 Deadline: Dec 1, 2024. More info: tinyurl.com/SMART-phd-ads

Our 100-page (!) report (from the 💯 team yooo) also highlighted key limitations with #LLM responses, including social desirability bias and poor item-level fit. These fine details reveal how AI cannot fully replicate the complexity of human responses in psychometrics... yet. ‍🥸