AIMC Topic: Psychology

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Mapping the terrain of Journal of Counseling Psychology: A citation network analysis.

Journal of counseling psychology
In this study, we conducted a citation network analysis of the to elucidate the scope, evolution, and interconnections of publications as reflected in how authors use (i.e., cite) these publications. We used CitNetExplorer to analyze a network of 4...

Comparing supervised and unsupervised approaches to emotion categorization in the human brain, body, and subjective experience.

Scientific reports
Machine learning methods provide powerful tools to map physical measurements to scientific categories. But are such methods suitable for discovering the ground truth about psychological categories? We use the science of emotion as a test case to expl...

How Can Big Data Science Transform the Psychological Sciences?

The Spanish journal of psychology
Big data and related technologies are radically altering our society. In a similar way, these approaches can transform the psychological sciences. The goal of this commentary is to motivate psychologists to embrace big data science for the betterment...

Estimating the deep replicability of scientific findings using human and artificial intelligence.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Replicability tests of scientific papers show that the majority of papers fail replication. Moreover, failed papers circulate through the literature as quickly as replicating papers. This dynamic weakens the literature, raises research costs, and dem...

Machine Learning and Psychological Research: The Unexplored Effect of Measurement.

Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
Machine learning (i.e., data mining, artificial intelligence, big data) has been increasingly applied in psychological science. Although some areas of research have benefited tremendously from a new set of statistical tools, most often in the use of ...

Predicting alcohol dependence treatment outcomes: a prospective comparative study of clinical psychologists versus 'trained' machine learning models.

Addiction (Abingdon, England)
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Clinical staff are typically poor at predicting alcohol dependence treatment outcomes. Machine learning (ML) offers the potential to model complex clinical data more effectively. This study tested the predictive accuracy of ML al...

One model to rule them all? Using machine learning algorithms to determine the number of factors in exploratory factor analysis.

Psychological methods
Determining the number of factors is one of the most crucial decisions a researcher has to face when conducting an exploratory factor analysis. As no common factor retention criterion can be seen as generally superior, a new approach is proposed-comb...

Fitting prediction rule ensembles to psychological research data: An introduction and tutorial.

Psychological methods
Prediction rule ensembles (PREs) are a relatively new statistical learning method, which aim to strike a balance between predictive performance and interpretability. Starting from a decision tree ensemble, like a boosted tree ensemble or a random for...

Searching for the Big Pictures.

Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
My goal in searching for the big pictures is to discover novel ways of organizing information in psychology that will have both theoretical and practical significance. The first section lists my reasons for writing each of five articles. The second s...