Research
Selected Publications
Our long-standing research actively shapes the landscape of AI and the behavioral sciences. As part of this commitment, we regularly publish open-access articles in leading international journals.
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2026
Hommel, B. E., Külpmann, A. I., & Arslan, R. C. (2026). The Synthetic Nomological Net: A search engine to identify conceptual overlap in measures in the behavioral sciences (Nfgmv_v2). PsyArXiv.
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2025
Hommel, B. E., & Arslan, R. C. (2025). Language Models Accurately Infer Correlations Between Psychological Items and Scales From Text Alone. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(4), 25152459251377093.
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2025
Schubert, K., Mader, N., Welt, M. S., Hommel, B. E., Wollang, F. J. M., & Volmer, J. (2025). The Interactive Career Atlas—An AI-Based Web Application for Informed Career Decisions. In F. Bellas & O. Fontenla-Romero (Eds.), AI in Education and Educational Research (Vol. 2519, pp. 44–51). Springer Nature Switzerland.
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2023
Hommel, B. E. (2023). Expanding the methodological toolbox: Machine-based item desirability ratings as an alternative to human-based ratings. Personality and Individual Differences, 213, 112307.
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2022
Hommel, B. E., Wollang, F.-J. M., Kotova, V., Zacher, H., & Schmukle, S. C. (2022). Transformer-Based Deep Neural Language Modeling for Construct-Specific Automatic Item Generation. Psychometrika, 87(2), 749–772.
doi.org/10.1007/s11336-021-09823-9