arXiv:2607. 28889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Qualitative researchers increasingly encounter interaction corpora whose scale exceeds what manual coding alone can address, and large language models (LLMs) are frequently proposed as analytic assistants.
arXiv:2608.30543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new possibilities for scaling qualitative analysis, but existing applications often provide limited methodological t...
arXiv:2507.21831v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLMs are seeing widespread use for task automation, including automated coding in the social sciences. However, even though researchers have...
arXiv:2412.12144v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Personality assessment through situational judgment tests (SJTs) offers unique advantages over traditional Likert-type self-report scales, ye...
Large language models (LLMs) are often compared with the human mind because their decision-making is complex, non-linear and difficult to interpret. Psychological methods developed to investigate unobservable mental processes may therefore help examine LLM behaviour, particularly in government and healthcare.
arXiv:2606. 07936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human evaluation plays a critical role in assessing the quality of generated text.
The paper investigates how persona prompting—using short textual descriptions of individuals—to align large language models (LLMs) with human survey responses. It examines the impact of selecting different persona attributes and finds that not all attribute combinations improve performance, suggesting that the variation in human responses to survey questions may explain mixed results. The study evaluates multiple attribute selection methods across four social surveys, two countries, six LLMs, and twenty prediction tasks, offering guidance on when persona prompting is beneficial and which attribute choices are most effective.
arXiv:2608. 15630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid development and growing deployment of large language models (LLMs) have made it increasingly important to understand their capabilities.
arXiv:2607. 11890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-ended surveys offer valuable insights, but they are notoriously difficult to analyze at scale.
The paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) can perform multi-coder qualitative coding by independently coding, debating, and reconciling disagreements. It quantifies the effectiveness of this approach across diverse datasets, identifying key factors—such as codebook length, data similarity, and agent disagreement—that influence coding accuracy. The study finds that intense, unresolved debates improve accuracy but that LLMs still lack adaptive responsiveness to context, leading to design recommendations for automated coding systems.
arXiv:2508. 19008v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building on a human-led thematic analysis of clinical life-story interviews (> 150,000 words) with inpatients with Borderline Personality Disorder, this study examines the capacity of large language models (OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude) to support qualitative clinical analysis.
arXiv:2607. 28890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluations of LLM-assisted qualitative coding almost universally measure model performance as agreement with human coders, a practice that presumes human coding is the standard to approximate.