{"title":"Fostering sustainability in higher education: Leveraging human behavior in organizations By Elise L. Amel, Christie M. Manning, Catherine S. Daus, Makayla Quinn, Cham, Switzerland: Springer. 2023. £109.99, ISBN 9783031505546","authors":"Yonghua (Yoka) Wang, Jing Zhang","doi":"10.1111/bjop.12760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"116 2","pages":"509-511"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James K He, Felix P S Wallis, Andrés Gvirtz, Steve Rathje
{"title":"Artificial intelligence chatbots mimic human collective behaviour.","authors":"James K He, Felix P S Wallis, Andrés Gvirtz, Steve Rathje","doi":"10.1111/bjop.12764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12764","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots, such as ChatGPT, have been shown to mimic individual human behaviour in a wide range of psychological and economic tasks. Do groups of AI chatbots also mimic collective behaviour? If so, artificial societies of AI chatbots may aid social scientific research by simulating human collectives. To investigate this theoretical possibility, we focus on whether AI chatbots natively mimic one commonly observed collective behaviour: homophily, people's tendency to form communities with similar others. In a large simulated online society of AI chatbots powered by large language models (N = 33,299), we find that communities form over time around bots using a common language. In addition, among chatbots that predominantly use English (N = 17,746), communities emerge around bots that post similar content. These initial empirical findings suggest that AI chatbots mimic homophily, a key aspect of human collective behaviour. Thus, in addition to simulating individual human behaviour, AI-powered artificial societies may advance social science research by allowing researchers to simulate nuanced aspects of collective behaviour.</p>","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142909342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychology and gender: An advanced reader By Sadhana Avinash Natu (Ed.), London: Routledge India. 2024. 222 pp. ₹1295. ISBN: 9781032518732","authors":"Sivakumar Iyyanar, Sree Govind Bharatvaraj","doi":"10.1111/bjop.12765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12765","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"116 2","pages":"519-521"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The reliability of UFO witness testimony By V.-J. Ballester Olmos & Richard W. Heiden (Eds.), Turin: Upiar Press. 2023. pp. 711","authors":"Richard Wiseman","doi":"10.1111/bjop.12763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12763","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"116 2","pages":"517-518"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rosalia Katarina Lamanepa, Iklima Ritmiani, Rema Vara Indry Dubu
{"title":"Personality psychology: A new perspective By Janek Musek, Switzerland: Springer Nature AG. 2024. Ebook £96.29. ISBN 978-3-031-55308-0","authors":"Rosalia Katarina Lamanepa, Iklima Ritmiani, Rema Vara Indry Dubu","doi":"10.1111/bjop.12761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12761","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"116 2","pages":"512-514"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143809662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Avanti Bhandarkar, Ronald Wilson, Anushka Swarup, Gregory D Webster, Damon Woodard
{"title":"Bridging minds and machines: Unmasking the limits in text-based automatic personality recognition for enhanced psychology-AI synergy.","authors":"Avanti Bhandarkar, Ronald Wilson, Anushka Swarup, Gregory D Webster, Damon Woodard","doi":"10.1111/bjop.12755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12755","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Text-based automatic personality recognition (APR) operates at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and psychology to determine the personality of an individual from their text sample. This covert form of personality assessment is key for a variety of online applications that contribute to individual convenience and well-being such as that of chatbots and personal assistants. Despite the availability of good quality data utilizing state-of-the-art AI methods, the reported performance of these recognition systems remains below expectations in comparable areas. Consequently, this work investigates and identifies the source of this performance limit and attributes it to the flawed assumptions of text-based APR. These insights are obtained via a large-scale comprehensive benchmark and analysis of text data from five corpora with diverse characteristics and complementary personality models (Big Five and Dark Triad) applied to an assortment of AI methods ranging from hand-crafted linguistic features to data-driven transformers. Finally, the work concludes by identifying the open problems that can help navigate the limitations in text-based automatic personality recognition to a great extent.</p>","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Harriet M. J. Smith, Kay L. Ritchie, Thom S. Baguley, Nadine Lavan
{"title":"Face and voice identity matching accuracy is not improved by multimodal identity information","authors":"Harriet M. J. Smith, Kay L. Ritchie, Thom S. Baguley, Nadine Lavan","doi":"10.1111/bjop.12757","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.12757","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Identity verification from both faces and voices can be error-prone. Previous research has shown that faces and voices signal concordant information and cross-modal unfamiliar face-to-voice matching is possible, albeit often with low accuracy. In the current study, we ask whether performance on a face or voice identity matching task can be improved by using multimodal stimuli which add a second modality (voice or face). We find that overall accuracy is higher for face matching than for voice matching. However, contrary to predictions, presenting one unimodal and one multimodal stimulus within a matching task did not improve face or voice matching compared to presenting two unimodal stimuli. Additionally, we find that presenting two multimodal stimuli does not improve accuracy compared to presenting two unimodal face stimuli. Thus, multimodal information does not improve accuracy. However, intriguingly, we find that cross-modal face-voice matching accuracy predicts voice matching accuracy but not face matching accuracy. This suggests cross-modal information can nonetheless play a role in identity matching, and face and voice information combine to inform matching decisions. We discuss our findings in light of current models of person perception, and consider the implications for identity verification in security and forensic settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"116 2","pages":"367-385"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjop.12757","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142845958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The token undermining effect: When and why adding a small reward to a dated outcome makes it less preferred","authors":"Cheng-Ming Jiang, Li-Na Chen, Qian Luo, Wen Wang, Jing Zhou, Jia-Tao Ma","doi":"10.1111/bjop.12758","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.12758","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The mere token strategy, which adds a small reward (token) to an option to increase attractiveness, is widely used in the consumer field. However, we conducted six studies that seek to confirm the ‘token undermining effect’, where adding a small token to a sooner and smaller reward (SS) paired with a later and larger reward (LL) decreases the preference for the SS. The results showed that the effect persists across various choice sets, participant populations, reward amounts, delays, outcome properties and regardless of whether the scenarios are incentivized. However, an important boundary condition was that the token must share the same nature as the original option. Furthermore, we used mouse cursor tracking methods to examine the underlying process of attention allocation and demonstrated that adding a small token to the SS leads individuals to allocate more attention to the magnitude dimension than to the delay dimension, ultimately decreasing their preference for the SS. Therefore, managers and policymakers should use the mere token strategy with caution as it could backfire.</p>","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"116 2","pages":"386-408"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142812191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping the maze: A network analysis of social–emotional skills among children and adolescents with social–emotional difficulties","authors":"Ming Huo, Bo Ning","doi":"10.1111/bjop.12751","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.12751","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Developing social–emotional skills is crucial for all children and adolescents, particularly those experiencing social and emotional difficulties. This study used network analysis to identify the central skills and network association of different social–emotional skills and investigated how these networks differ between childhood and adolescence. Data were obtained from the 2019 Survey on Social and Emotional Skills by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Our study focused on the bottom quartile of participants aged 10 and 15 years, including 7737 and 7439 individuals from each age group. Optimism and cooperation consistently emerged as the central skills of social–emotional competence across both age groups. When comparing network structures, there was a significant difference between children and adolescents. The connectivity of social–emotional networks was stronger among adolescents, indicating closer skill associations. Understanding these developmental differences is important for educators and practitioners to more effectively support the social–emotional development of children and adolescents experiencing social–emotional difficulties.</p>","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"116 1","pages":"233-249"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142799490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sounds of the future and past","authors":"David M. Sidhu, Johanna Peetz","doi":"10.1111/bjop.12753","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjop.12753","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We report evidence of sound symbolism for the abstract concept of time across seven experiments (total <i>N</i> = 825). Participants associated the future and past with distinct phonemes (Experiment 1). In particular, using nearly 8000 pseudowords, we found associations between the future and high front vowels and voiced fricatives/affricatives, and between the past and /θ/ and voiced stops (Experiment 2). This association was present not only among English speakers but also by speakers of a closely related language (German) and those of a more distantly related language (Hungarian; Experiment 3). This time-sound symbolism does not appear to be due to embodied articulation (Experiment 4). In sum, these studies identify a robust time sound symbolism effect, along with tests of underlying mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":9300,"journal":{"name":"British journal of psychology","volume":"116 2","pages":"316-335"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjop.12753","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142799492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}