Clin Lai
@ialnilc
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Cognitive Psych PhD student @penn_state | Learning, creativity, and collaboration (she/her) | alumna @yalenus #FirstGen 🇸🇬🇺🇲 @[email protected]
United States
Joined June 2020
Proud to announce our latest publication in Nature Human Behavior investigating the impact of early class schedules on attendance, sleep patterns, and academic performance using data captured by university technological infrastructures:
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Nature Human Behaviour - Yeo et al. use digital data on student behaviour (Wi-Fi connections and Learning Management System logins) to examine associations between sleep and academic outcomes.
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists https://t.co/ae2PDihS8A via @OsfFramework
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Psychologists — from computational modellers to social and personality researchers to cognitive neuroscientists and from experimentalists to methodologists to theoreticians — can fall prey to...
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Creativity is collaborative. But with LLMs, many now collaborate with AI. Are people more creative working with other people or LLMs? We find human pairs are MORE creative, and AI actually reduces human originality over time, despite increasing verbosity. https://t.co/94JJP5TzNh
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"AI’s use by high-school and college students to complete written assignments, to ease or avoid the work of reading and writing... puts the process of deskilling at education’s core. To automate learning is to subvert learning" Great piece by @roughtype
https://t.co/KCixq1NUgB
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AI's real threat to education.
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We have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in @NatRevPsych We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility Free link: https://t.co/S10dqqrwKy Led by @stfeuerriegel
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Who is more creative: two humans, or a human and an AI? This study finds human teams generate better ideas than human-AI pairs, pointing to benefits of human collaboration over AI co-creativity.
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Recent research suggests that working with generative artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, can produce more creative outcomes than humans alone. However, does AI retain its creative edge...
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Meta-analysis of PISA creative thinking data by @BenjaminGoecke across 62 countries (n=493,660) finds SES is a strong predictor of creativity, along with gender: girls scored higher than boys—a bigger gender gap than boys’ slight advantage in math.
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A comprehensive review of research on creativity in AI---from artistic creation to scientific discovery---grounded in creativity theories. https://t.co/2ZyNBHcOfZ
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Creativity is the ability to produce novel, useful, and surprising ideas, and has been widely studied as a crucial aspect of human cognition. Machine creativity on the other hand has been a...
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Did you apply to #psychology PhD programs this cycle? It’s time to prepare for the interview. Check out these sample questions and access additional resources here: https://t.co/EYHShNXSPg
@AcademicChatter @PsychinOut @SCPdiv12
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Thrilled to announce our latest publication on #scientific_creativity🤩! We investigate the Woseco task as a novel method to map creative thinking through semantic networks. Check out our paper with my co-authors @ialnilc @Roger_Beaty @MassimoSt
https://t.co/Aw27UQVTVv
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How does AI impact our sense of agency in the creative process? This paper suggests a few key factors: whether AI competes or complements human abilities, how effective we perceive AI to be, and whether the stakes are high or low.
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Emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities are redefining roles traditionally assigned to humans or tools in numerous tasks, and thereby creating tensions in professions ranging from educat...
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Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 @NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! https://t.co/p1bD1kxO7H
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Cold-emailing potential postdoc advisors is a hugely successful strategy! Here is the exact e-mail I sent back in the day (& it worked) - feel free to use as a template:
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Postdoc Cold-Email - Example I sent this off ~10 months before my PhD graduation. Dear Professor/Dr. [Last Name], My name is [first and last name], and I am a PhD student currently working with [PhD...
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👀 As the faculty job market picks up speed, it's already time to prepare for zoom/phone interviews! I've posted a list of questions I and others have been asked on my website....if you can answer them thoughtfully, you'll be well-prepared for the call! https://t.co/MRP8vQUrTE
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Potential (Phone) Interview Questions Laurel Gabard-Durnam It was helpful for me to think about and jot down notes and brief answers to these questions before my phone interviews. You may not be...
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✨it's PhD application season again!✨ i am re-sharing my popular guide on applying for PhD programs in STEM, that has now been viewed 60k+ times over the past 6 years😍 please RT and share with anyone that might find it useful!
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New work from our lab: generating new creativity tests using large language models: 1. AI "test generator" creates candidate test items 2. AI "test takers" solve them 3. AI "scorers" rate solutions for originality 4. Best items selected for creativity tests
Check out our new paper “The creative psychometric item generator: a framework for item generation and validation using large language models” on arXiv: https://t.co/lV7Vm4oY4k
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‼️Starting to email prospective advisors for #Psychology #PhD programs? Check out our resource guide which includes several tips, tricks, and templates. @erinkaseda @JeriSasser
https://t.co/EYHShNXSPg
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I'll be recruiting a graduate student to start in Fall 2025 at Penn State! Looking for applicants interested in creativity, cognitive neuroscience, AI, psychometrics, learning/creativity in education. See below for application info and please share 🙂 https://t.co/qMODbhvG8s
psych.la.psu.edu
The Department of Psychology at Penn State has over 40 faculty committed to providing exceptional graduate instruction and supervision, a dynamic community of over 100 graduate students across five...
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📢 😃Thrilled to share this Preprint with you‼️ We (28🧠-Scientists) propose 4 Ways to increase Effect Sizes (not only Sample Size) to enhance the Replicability of Neuroimaging Research on Individual Differences. https://t.co/x8CsDCK6EA
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Folks on the academic job market this year—check out three upcoming panel discussions on how to write research, diversity, and teaching statements, and how to interview on the market! More info below, sign up here:
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The goal of these panel sessions is to provide graduate students and postdocs with a structured format for writing and revising materials for the academic job search. There will be three 1-hour panel...
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Incredibly grateful to be awarded this grant. Huge thanks to @APADivision10 for supporting my research on co-creativity! Stay tuned for updates on its progress!
Congrats to grad students Clin Lai (@ialnilc) and Simone Luchini (@Simone_Luchini) from our lab on receiving the Early Career Research Micro Grants from @APADivision10! Exciting research ahead on human-AI collaboration in creativity and AI's impact on idea diversity.
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