🤖+🧠=✨ Awesome LLM in Psychology

"When Freud meets GPT... magic happens."
A curated list of awesome projects, papers, tools, and thoughts at the fascinating crossroads of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Psychology.

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🪄 Why This Repo?

Welcome to the brainy side of AI! This repo is dedicated to collecting and celebrating everything that's happening at the intersection of psychology and large language models — from modeling cognitive processes to chatting with your inner child. 😄

If you’ve ever asked:

• “Can GPT develop a personality?”
• “What would therapy look like with an LLM?”
• “Do LLMs understand emotions—or just fake it really well?”

…then you’re in the right place.

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🧭 Directory

📚 Survey Papers

• Using large language models in psychology, 2023.11, [Paper]
• Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science?, 2023.04, [Paper]

🧪 Research Papers

Where psychology meets pretraining.

Teaching LLMs to Be Good Citizens: RLHF

• Direct Language Model Alignment from Online AI Feedback, 2024.02, [Paper]
• A Survey on Post-training of Large Language Models, 2025.03, [Paper]
• Crossing the Reward Bridge: Expanding RL with Verifiable Rewards Across Diverse Domains, 2025.04, [Paper]

LLMs act as reference-free metrics for NLG evaluation.

• G-EVAL: NLG Evaluation using GPT-4 with Better Human Alignment, 2023.05, [Paper]

🛠️ Datasets & Benchmarks

You can’t study minds without good data.

• CAMS: An Annotated Corpus for Causal Analysis of Mental Health Issues in Social Media Posts, 2022.07, [Paper], [Dataset]
• The PRISM Alignment Project, 2024.12, [Dataset]

🤖 Cool Projects & Tools

LLMs with feelings? Almost.

• 🛋️ AI Therapists (CBT bots, reflective journaling tools)
• 👯 Conversational agents for social skills & support
• 🪞 Self-reflection and identity exploration tools
• 🧪 Psychology experiments powered by LLMs

🎨 Prompt Engineering for Psychology

Prompt crafting = psychological manipulation (the good kind).

• 📐 Prompts that evoke cognitive biases
• 🌀 Priming LLMs with psychological traits
• 🧠 Simulating attention, memory, decision-making, and more

📚 Learning Resources

For the curious minds and crossover scholars.

• 📺 Talks & tutorials on LLMs + psych
• 🎓 Courses blending AI and psychology
• 📖 Reading lists & intros for psychologists new to LLMs

💬 Community & Discussion

Connect with other curious minds.

• 🔗 Discords, forums, and mailing lists
• ✍️ Blogs, newsletters, and Substacks
• 🧑‍🔬 Research groups doing cool interdisciplinary work

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💡 Bonus: Questions That Keep Us Up at Night

• Can LLMs simulate Freudian slips?
• What human biases do LLMs reflect—and what new ones do they create?
• Can GPT help us understand ourselves better?
• What does “consciousness” even mean if the bot answers with empathy?

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🌈 Contribution Guide

Wanna add your mind-bending Psy+LLM project?
We love contributions! Just open a PR or issue with:

📁 Category: (e.g., Research Paper, Tool, Dataset)
🔗 Link: Your awesome thing here
📝 Description: Keep it short and sweet!