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Using Natural Language Processing in Positive Psychology due to an unconscious desire of figuring out why my life is so unimaginably balanced, satisfying and harmonious augustnilsson.lovable.app

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Oscar Kjell @oscarkjell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
1/5 AI is becoming more advanced and more common in mental healthcare, from assessments to psychotherapy support. We built a Coursera specialisation to help clinicians navigate it: The Mental Health Clinician and AI. coursera.org/specializations/the-mental-health-clinician-and-ai #PsychSciSky
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If academics invoiced every hour spent on journal submission pages, Elon Musk would become middle class...
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Thank you @veerleceline.bsky.social, @alexgu85.bsky.social, @katarinakjell.bsky.social, @salgiorgi.bsky.social, Roman Kotov, @adigan.bsky.social, @handyschwartz.bsky.social and @oscarkjell.bsky.social for great collaboration 🙏
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The library is an achievement of interdisciplinary work between psychology and computer science.
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We hope researchers will enjoy the library, both as users and contributors.
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Anyone can contribute models — there's a documentation template covering outcome, training data, validation, and ethics. The goal is a shared resource the field maintains together, not a one-lab repo. 🤝 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
And applying a model is one line of R: textAssess(model_info = "depression_text_phq9_roberta23_gu2024", texts = “I hate the replication crisis”) Language in, score out. 🎯
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
So why a library of such models? Because L-BAMs have mostly been one-off artefacts attached to papers — hard to find, hard to reuse, hard to validate independently. The L-BAM library gives them standardised documentation: training data, performance metrics, generalisability info etc.
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Many of the resulting models converge with rating scales at r > .80 — approaching the outcomes’ own reliability, the theoretical ceiling for concurrent accuracy.
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Over the years, we have built many many models where we take rich language as input (e.g., “describe how you are feeling”) and train models to predict an outcome (e.g., self-rated emotions), using LLMs and machine learning.
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
New AMPPS paper introducing a new LIBRARY: the Language-Based Assessment Model (L-BAM) Library 📚 with 50+ open models for assessing mental health, well-being, implicit motives, and more 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Haha interesting! Curious about what makes you feel that??
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Veerle Eijsbroek @veerleceline.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
1/5 Did you ever wish to make a visualization of language data? 🤔 We made an R-based tutorial for social scientists on how to turn language data into visual insights ✅ Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Veerle Eijsbroek @veerleceline.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The LEADING reporting guideline is now published in Comprehensive Psychiatry 🥳 See www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Or read the previous summary 👇
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The LEADING guideline: Reporting standards for expert panel, best-estimate diagnosis, and longitudinal expert all data (LEAD) methods
Accurate assessments of symptoms and illnesses are essential for health research and clinical practice but face many challenges. The absence of a sing…
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We pushed up the accuracy even further with human-centered embeddings from Nikita Soni who also led the team. Much much fun! 😃
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
In a computer science task of predicting well-being from Reddit posts, we used psychological language features such as mental health, implicit motives and resilience and were more accurate than half of all teams. Accuracy with explainability! #CLPsych2025 aclanthology.org/2025.clpsych...
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
And a big thanks to many others who provided great comments. Not least Mr @ryanboyd.io 🙏🫶
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I led this research with a brilliant team, with the expert Malte Runge in the forefront, young genius Carl-Viggo together with @oscarkjell.bsky.social creating the easy implementation of these models in R and Adithya Ganesan and Nikita Soni representing the computer science department 🙏🙏🙏
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
7/7 This coding automation with fast, high-quality codings can enable a renaissance of implicit motive codings, a field dating back to psychology legends Henry Murray and Gordon Allport in the 1930s. 💤->🔔->🏋️‍♀️
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
6/7 In the R package text (www.r-text.org), you can easily apply these models with a single command (after you installed text), for free, without sharing data with any third party #rstats ##rtext👇👇👇
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
5/7 We let three rested experts recode sentences where our models strongly disagreed with the original coders. In 85% of the cases, the new coders agreed with the models, indicating that the models are more accurate than humans. 💻👈
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
4/7 YES, our models, trained with data from German people 2010-2020, generalized to US data FROM 1949, with completely different picture cues and gender distributions. 😱😎
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
3/7 Using language models and machine learning, we created automated implicit motive codings that agreed stronger with the average expert coder than how expert coders generally agree with each other in three different holdout sets 🎯
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
2/7 Implicit motives are subconscious needs that have been studied for a century but are very resource-intensive to assess. A 100-participant study takes 50 hours of brain-focused work to code stories written by people. 🧠💰 Now it takes <10 minutes using no brain power! ⚡️
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🎺 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
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Very fun to work with the fantastic harmony gurus Tim Lomas, @oscarkjell.bsky.social, Ryan Niemiec, James Pawelski, Noah Padgett and Tyler VanderWeele on this paper 🙌
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
8/8 Bottom line✅: Balance = life’s parts working together ⚖️ Harmony = quality of relationships 🫂 They’re more distinct than previously assumed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Differentiating balance and harmony through natural language analysis: a cross-national exploration of two understudied wellbeing-related concepts
Although the concepts of balance and harmony are increasingly appreciated as important in research on wellbeing, their precise meaning is often vague or unclear. This paper aims to elucidate these ...
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
7/8 The model agrees 🤖: Using machine learning, we classified balance vs. harmony definitions with an AUC of 0.93. That’s very high 🚀—meaning the concepts are easy to tell apart.
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
6/8 How people define them: Harmony = relationships—mostly social 👥, but also with nature 🌳 and the world 🌍. Balance = life’s big picture—work 💼, family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, self , etc. Distinct patterns in people’s words. 🔍 pbs.twimg.com/media/GjbJwQ...
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
5/8 Key finding #2: Where you live matters 🗺️ Preference for balance = stronger in sparsely populated countries (e.g., Australia 🇦🇺) Preference for harmony = stronger in densely populated countries (e.g., Singapore 🇸🇬) More people around you? Harmony matters more. 🫂 pbs.twimg.com/media/GjbI5Y...
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
4/8 Key finding #1: People define harmony more positively than balance. (based on predicted valence in the definitions!) BUT—more people prefer to be in balance (58.3%) 🤯than in harmony. Positivity ≠ preference. pbs.twimg.com/media/GjbIzq...
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
3/8 We asked: Two open-ended questions: “What does balance mean to you?” “What does harmony mean to you?” One forced-choice: “Would you rather be in balance or in harmony?” 15,275 people. 154 nations. Big data for big questions. 🌍📊
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
2/8 Why does this matter? 🤔 Life satisfaction & happiness dominate well-being research but are critiqued as: Western-focused 🌍 Money-driven 💰 Hedonic 😄 Enter balance & harmony—Eastern-rooted, purpose-related, socially focused. But are they the same thing?
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
1/8 Balance ⚖️ vs. Harmony ☯️: Two emerging well-being constructs often sloppily used interchangeably. But they’re distinct. Balance = broad life domains ⚖️ Harmony = relationships🧘 We asked 15,275 people across 154 nations to show it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Differentiating balance and harmony through natural language analysis: a cross-national exploration of two understudied wellbeing-related concepts
Although the concepts of balance and harmony are increasingly appreciated as important in research on wellbeing, their precise meaning is often vague or unclear. This paper aims to elucidate these ...
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