Explore 4 peer-reviewed papers in Psychological Science (2022–2025). Academic research using Prolific for high-quality human data collection.
This page lists 4 peer-reviewed papers in the discipline of Psychological Science in the Prolific Citations Library, a curated collection of research powered by high-quality human data from Prolific.
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Authors: A Meythaler
Year: 2025
Published in: 2025 - scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
Institution: University of Potsdam, Weizenbaum Institute
Research Area: Social Media, Anxiety, Qualitative Research, Computational Social Science
Discipline: Psychological Science, Computational Social Science
The study identifies six categories of social media content—negative news, incivility, social comparison content, political content, misinformation, and depictions of dangerous behavior—as triggers for anxiety among users.
Methods: A qualitative study was conducted using interviews or focus groups with 249 social media users to explore the effects of different content types on anxiety.
Key Findings: The role of specific social media content categories in inducing feelings of anxiety.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2025.334
Citations: 4
Sample Size: 249
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Authors: DA Albert, D Smilek
Year: 2024
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Institution: University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo
Research Area: Crowdsourcing, Behavioral Science, Human-Computer Interaction
Discipline: Psychological Science
Prolific participants exhibited lower levels of attentional disengagement compared to MTurk participants, with risk conditions and platform traits influencing task performance and disengagement.
Methods: Participants from Prolific and MTurk completed an attention task with varying error risk levels (high vs. low), and attentional disengagement was measured using task performance, self-reported mind wandering, and multitasking.
Key Findings: Attentional disengagement through task performance, mind wandering, and multitasking under different risk conditions across two recruitment platforms (Prolific and MTurk).
Citations: 150
Sample Size: 80
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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: A Küper, N Krämer
Year: 2022
Published in: International Journal of Human--Computer ..., 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Institution: Universitätsklinikum Giessen und Marburg
Research Area: Trust in AI, Psychological Factors, Human-Computer Interaction
Discipline: Psychological Science, Human-Computer Interaction
DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10447318.2024.2348216
Citations: 54
