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The effects of manipulating choice on children's enjoyment and performance in a reading task. 操纵选择对儿童在阅读任务中的享受和表现的影响。

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Current Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1007/s12144-025-07685-3

Lisa Fridkin, Jane Hurry

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Bullying and anxiety/depressive symptoms in Latinx adolescents living with obesity: the mediating role of self-esteem. 拉美裔肥胖青少年的欺凌与焦虑/抑郁症状：自尊的中介作用。

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Current Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1007/s12144-024-07259-9

Padideh Lovan, Devina J Boga, Alyssa Lozano, Beck Graefe, Shanelle Hodge, Yannine Estrada, Tae Kyoung Lee, Guillermo Prado

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Using large language models to facilitate academic work in the psychological sciences. 使用大型语言模型促进心理科学的学术工作。

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Current Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1007/s12144-025-07438-2

Aamir Sohail, Lei Zhang

{"title":"Using large language models to facilitate academic work in the psychological sciences.","authors":"Aamir Sohail, Lei Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s12144-025-07438-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-07438-2","url":null,"abstract":"Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly shaped working practices across a variety of fields including academia. Demonstrating a remarkable versatility, these models can generate responses to prompts with information in the form of text, documents, and images, show ability to summarize documents, perform literature searches, and even more, understand human behavior. However, despite providing many clear benefits, barriers remain toward their integration into academic work. Ethical and practical concerns regarding their suitability for various tasks further complicate their appropriate use. Here, we summarize recent advances assessing the capacity of LLMs for different components of academic research and teaching, focusing on three key areas in the psychological sciences: education and assessment, academic writing, and simulating human behavior. We discuss how LLMs can be used to aid each area, describe current challenges and good practices, and propose future directions. In doing so, we aim to increase the awareness and proper use of LLMs in various components of academic work, which will only feature more heavily over time.","PeriodicalId":48075,"journal":{"name":"Current Psychology","volume":"44 9","pages":"7910-7918"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12106154/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144175336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Validating the satisfaction with life scale among early adolescents: psychometric assessment using item response theory. 青少年早期生活满意度量表的验证：基于项目反应理论的心理测量学评估。

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Current Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-01 DOI: 10.1007/s12144-025-07518-3

Scott I Donaldson, Trista A Beard, Daniel Soto, Ryan Lee, Adam M Leventhal, Jennifer B Unger

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What drives Chinese college students' career interests? The impact of gender, major and job characteristics 是什么驱动了中国大学生的职业兴趣？性别、专业和工作特征的影响

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Current Psychology Pub Date : 2024-01-06 DOI: 10.1007/s12144-023-05561-6

Yingying Yang, Weijia Li, Joan M. Barth