Discover 50 peer-reviewed studies in Psychology (2024–2026). Explore research findings powered by Prolific's diverse participant panel.
This page lists 50 peer-reviewed papers in the research area of Psychology in the Prolific Citations Library, a curated collection of research powered by high-quality human data from Prolific.
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Authors: K Rudnicki, O Borowiecki, K Poels, B Beersma
Year: 2026
Published in: Evolution and Human …, 2026 - Elsevier
Institution: University of Antwerp, University of Bialystok, VU University, Emory University
Research Area: Personality psychology, Social cognition, Cognitive neuroscience
Discipline: Evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology
In a preregistered study, psychopathy (more than the other Dark Triad traits) is linked to worse cognitive empathy and greater dehumanization, and this empathy–psychopathy link is especially strong among people who are less sensitive at detecting agency in others.
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Authors: H Zhu, J Chen, N Liu
Year: 2026
Published in: International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2026 - Elsevier
Institution: Sun Yat-Sen University
Research Area: Leadership studies, Organizational psychology, hospitality research, Attachment theory
Discipline: Organizational Behavior, Management
Leader secure-base support improves hospitality employees’ service performance by boosting work engagement, but this benefit is weakened when employees experience high role ambiguity or role conflict.
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Authors: M Raj, JM Berg, R Seamans
Year: 2026
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2026 - psycnet.apa.org
Institution: New York University, University of Michigan, Wharton
Research Area: Disclosure psychology, Biases in human–machine evaluation, AI Biases
Discipline: Experimental psychology
This paper sits at the intersection of experimental psychology, social cognition, and consumer judgment, examining how AI disclosure triggers persistent authenticity-based bias against creative work, revealing a robust form of algorithmic aversion in symbolic and expressive domains.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001889
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Authors: S Assecondi
Year: 2026
Published in: SPRINGER
Institution: University of Trento
Research Area: Geropsychology, Cognitive intervention research, Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology
Discipline: Psychology, Cognitive Science
Working memory training shows modest improvements in reading comprehension for younger adults but not older adults, highlighting the need for ecologically valid measures in cognitive training programs.
Methods: Participants underwent a 5-day cognitive training program targeting visuo-spatial working memory to evaluate effects on reading comprehension as a proxy for everyday functions.
Key Findings: The relationship between visuo-spatial working memory improvements and reading comprehension performance across age groups.
Sample Size: 175
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Authors: SSY Kim, JW Vaughan, QV Liao, T Lombrozo
Year: 2025
Published in: Proceedings of the ..., 2025 - dl.acm.org
Institution: Wake Forest University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Princeton University, University of California Berkeley
Research Area: Appropriate Reliance on LLMs, Explainable AI, Human-AI Interaction, Cognitive Psychology
Discipline: Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
The study examines factors that influence users' reliance on LLM responses, finding explanations increase reliance, while sources and inconsistent explanations reduce reliance on incorrect responses.
Methods: Think-aloud study followed by a pre-registered, controlled experiment to assess the impact of explanations, sources, and inconsistencies in LLM responses on user reliance.
Key Findings: Users' reliance on LLM responses, accuracy, and the influence of explanations, inconsistencies, and sources on these measures.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714020
Citations: 38
Sample Size: 308
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Authors: S Carney, I Riveros, S Tully
Year: 2025
Published in: Available at SSRN 4988760, 2025 - papers.ssrn.com
Institution: University of Southern California
Research Area: Consumer Engagement with AI Disclosures, Social Media Marketing, Social Psychology
Discipline: Social Science
AI-generated content disclosures on social media reduce consumer engagement primarily due to a decrease in parasocial connections, as users perceive creators to exert less effort; signaling greater effort can mitigate this effect.
Methods: Analysis of TikTok engagement data following AIGC disclosure implementation, supplemented by six preregistered experiments.
Key Findings: Impact of AIGC disclosures on consumer engagement and the mediating role of parasocial connections.
Citations: 6
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Authors: J Goergen, E de Bellis, AK Klesse
Year: 2025
Published in: ... of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025 - pnas.org
Institution: Cologne Business School, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, Tilburg University, Copenhagen Business School
Research Area: Psychology of AI and Organizational Behavior
Discipline: Organizational Behavior, Psychology of AI
AI assessments lead people to emphasize analytical characteristics in their self-presentation, which could change hiring outcomes and compromise assessment validity.
Methods: Examined behaviors in candidate selection contexts to assess how people adapt their self-presentation under AI evaluation.
Key Findings: Changes in self-presentation and perceived traits emphasized during AI assessments compared to traditional evaluations.
Citations: 4
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Authors: N Byrd
Year: 2025
Published in: Byrd, N. (2025). Reflection-Philosophy Order Effects and Correlations Across Samples. Analysis. DOI: 10.1093/analys/anaf015. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/y8sdm
Institution: Stevens Institute of Technology
Research Area: Behavioral Research Methods, Experimental Psychology, Crowdsourcing Platforms
Discipline: Psychology
Reflective reasoning correlates with certain philosophical decisions, and the study suggests bidirectional causal paths between reflection and philosophy, with test order effects influencing reflection test outcomes but not philosophical decisions.
Methods: Participants from four sources (Amazon Mechanical Turk, CloudResearch, Prolific, and a university) were tested on reflective reasoning and their decisions on 10 philosophical thought experiments.
Key Findings: Impact of reflective reasoning on philosophical decisions and the effect of test order on reflection and philosophy outcomes.
Citations: 4
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Authors: HCB Huang
Year: 2025
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2025 - psycnet.apa.org
Institution: University of British Columbia
Research Area: Human-AI Collaboration, Creativity, Experimental Psychology
Discipline: Experimental Psychology
Moderate levels of human-AI collaboration enhance creative performance due to increased knowledge diversity, but excessive or minimal involvement diminishes this effect.
Methods: Two experiments assigned 139 business professionals and 319 working adults to collaborate with ChatGPT at varying levels, and a follow-up survey among 188 creative industry workers was conducted to replicate findings.
Key Findings: The impact of varying degrees of human-AI collaboration on creative performance, evaluated by human judges, entrepreneurs, and AI metrics.
Citations: 3
Sample Size: 646
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Authors: KO Alberts, AD Castel
Year: 2025
Published in: Experimental Aging Research, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Institution: University of California Los Angeles
Research Area: Cognitive Aging, Associative Memory, Trustworthiness of Artificial Faces, Human-AI Interaction, Psychology, Trust in AI
Discipline: Psychology, Psychobiology, Aging Research
Older adults perceive artificial faces as equally trustworthy as real faces, unlike young adults who find artificial faces less trustworthy, and older adults show no difference in memory accuracy between face types.
Methods: Participants viewed real and artificial faces associated with scam or neutral conditions, then rated trustworthiness and were tested on associative memory.
Key Findings: Associative memory and perceived trustworthiness of real and artificial faces across young and older adults.
Citations: 1
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Authors: J Szczuka, L Mühl, P Ebner, S Dubé
Year: 2025
Published in: ArXiv
Institution: University of Duisburg-Essen
Research Area: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Social Psychology, Interpersonal Relationships with AI, LLM Evaluation
Discipline: Social Science
Participants rated AI-generated dating profile responses equally as human-like in terms of closeness and romantic interest, challenging assumptions about authenticity in online communication.
Methods: Participants evaluated 10 AI-generated responses to an interpersonal closeness task in a matchmaking scenario, without knowing the responses were AI-generated.
Key Findings: Impact of perceived response source (human vs AI) on interpersonal closeness and romantic interest; influence of perceived quality and human-likeness.
Sample Size: 307
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Authors: O Jacobs
Year: 2025
Published in: 2025 - open.library.ubc.ca
Institution: University of British Columbia
Research Area: Mind Perception in Human-AI Interaction, Anthropomorphism, Psychology
Discipline: Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in AI
This is a University of British Columbia doctoral thesis that investigates how people perceive and attribute mental states (beliefs, intentions, minds) to artificial intelligence systems — exploring the psychological and conceptual underpinnings of mind perception in human–AI interaction.
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Authors: Jiaqi Zhua, Andras Molnar
Year: 2025
Published in: ArXiv
Institution: University of Michigan
Research Area: Social Psychology, Human-AI Interaction, Generative AI Impact on Social Perception
Discipline: Social Science, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Impressions of written messages are overly positive when recipients are unaware of potential Generative AI (GenAI) use, but negative when GenAI use is explicitly disclosed.
Methods: A pre-registered large-scale online experiment leveraged Prolific participants to assess social impressions in diverse communication contexts, with varying levels of sender disclosure regarding GenAI use.
Key Findings: The influence of known or uncertain GenAI use on recipients' social impressions of message senders across different personal and professional contexts.
Sample Size: 647
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Authors: L Woodley, X Roberts-Gaal, R Calcott, F Cushman
Year: 2025
Published in: files.osf.io
Institution: Harvard University
Research Area: Experimental Psychology, Research Methods, Replication Studies
Discipline: Psychology, Social Science
Explicit demand cues do not alter participant behavior, judgments, or attitudes in online psychology experiments, despite participants adjusting their beliefs about study hypotheses.
Methods: Three preregistered experiments on Prolific tested the impact of explicit demand cues on participant behavior using a dictator game, a moral dilemma vignette, and a group attitude intervention. Participants were randomly assigned to receive information about the study hypothesis or no information.
Key Findings: Whether explicit demand cues influence behavior, judgments, or attitudes in online psychology studies.
Sample Size: 2254
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Authors: M Reis, F Reis, W Kunde
Year: 2024
Published in: Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Institution: University of Cambridge, Julius Maximilians Universität
Research Area: AI in Healthcare, Medical Ethics, Cognitive Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in Medicine
Discipline: AI in Healthcare, Medical Ethics, Cognitive Psychology
The study found that medical advice labeled as being sourced from AI (or AI supervised by humans) is perceived as less reliable and empathetic compared to advice labeled as originating solely from a human physician, resulting in reduced willingness to follow such advice.
Methods: Two preregistered studies were conducted where participants were presented with identical medical advice scenarios but with manipulated labels for the advice source ('AI', 'human physician', 'human+AI').
Key Findings: Participants' perceptions of reliability, empathy, and willingness to follow medical advice based on the perceived source.
Citations: 78
Sample Size: 2280
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Authors: Z Cui, N Li, H Zhou
Year: 2024
Published in: A Large-Scale Replication of Psychological ..., 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Institution: Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai
Research Area: LLM replication of psychological experiments, Social Science Research Methods, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology
Discipline: Psychological Science
Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 successfully replicate 76% of main effects and 47% of interaction effects from 154 psychological experiments, but exhibit overestimation and potential false positives, highlighting their complementary role rather than full replacement of human subjects.
Methods: Replication of 154 psychological experiments from top social science journals using GPT-4 as a simulated participant to measure main effects and interaction effects.
Key Findings: The ability of GPT-4 to replicate human responses in psychological experiments and the extent to which it produces similar results in terms of effect direction, significance, and confidence intervals.
Citations: 29
Sample Size: 154
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Authors: M Kuutila, C Kiili, R Kupiainen, E Huusko, J Li
Year: 2024
Published in: Computers in Human ..., 2024 - Elsevier
Research Area: Social Media Credibility Evaluation, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Cyberpsychology, AI Evaluation
Discipline: Computer science, human–computer interaction, cyberpsychology
The study found that prior belief consistency and source expertise significantly influenced perceived credibility of health-related social media posts, while evidence quality had minimal impact. Crowdsourcing platform choice also affected credibility evaluations of inaccurate posts.
Methods: Researchers created social media posts with manipulated source characteristics, claim accuracy, and evidence quality. Participants evaluated the credibility of these posts via crowdsourcing platforms after having their prior topic beliefs assessed.
Key Findings: The perceived credibility of health-related social media posts based on source characteristics, evidence quality, prior beliefs, and the platform used for data collection.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108017
Citations: 19
Sample Size: 844
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Authors: C Donato, L Monsurrò, M Di Cioccio
Year: 2024
Published in: Science Direct
Institution: G. D'Annunzio University, Luiss Guido Carli University, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Research Area: Consumer Behavior, Social Psychology, Retailing
Discipline: Social Psychology, Consumer Behavior
Meat-eaters are more inclined to purchase plant-based food when primed with a common identity rather than a vegan identity, reducing identity threat and enhancing sustainability efforts.
Methods: Four experimental studies utilizing identity-based interventions to influence food choices among meat-eaters.
Key Findings: The impact of identity priming (common vs. vegan) on meat-eaters' willingness to buy plant-based food.
Citations: 13
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Authors: Paul-Michael Heineck, Roland Deutsch
Year: 2024
Published in: British Psychological Society
Institution: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Research Area: Social Psychology
Discipline: Psychology
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Authors: Claire E. Stevenson⋄
Year: 2024
Published in: ArXiv
Institution: Santa Fe Institute, University of Amsterdam
Research Area: LLM Generalization, Analogy Solving, Cognitive Development, Artificial Intelligence in Psychology
Discipline: Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence