The social and behavioral sciences have been increasingly using automated text analysis to
measure psychological constructs in text. We explore whether GPT, the large-language …

The ways people use language can reveal clues to their emotions, social behaviours,
thinking styles, cultures and the worlds around them. In the past two decades, research at …

Very large language models (LLMs) perform extremely well on a spectrum of NLP tasks in a
zero-shot setting. However, little is known about their performance on human-level NLP …

Background Unhealthy alcohol consumption is a severe public health problem. But low to
moderate alcohol consumption is associated with high subjective well-being, possibly …

Opioid poisoning mortality is a substantial public health crisis in the United States, with
opioids involved in approximately 75% of the nearly 1 million drug related deaths since …

Analyses for linking language with psychological factors or behaviors predominately treat
linguistic features as a static set, working with a single document per person or aggregating …

Exposure to alcohol posts on social media has been found to be associated with emerging
adults' alcohol use. An important mechanism through which this association seems to occur …

This thesis explores students' matriculation decision factors via an AI-led chatbot trained with
social media data. The novelty of this thesis resides in the following methodological …

Abstract Language is one of the main means for human interaction expression, containing in
itself an encoding of rich psychological traits of the speaker. With the help of natural …

Social media data has become the largest cross-sectional and longitudinal dataset on
emotions, cognitions, and behaviors in human history. To use social media data, such as …