August Nilsson

Join our task of predicting variation in emotions from daily descriptions of the question "Describe your current feelings" 😃 Super fun data to work with and almost as ecologically valid as it gets!!!

We pushed up the accuracy even further with human-centered embeddings from @nikita_soni_ who also led the team. Much much fun!😃

In a computer science task of predicting well-being from Reddit posts, we used psychological language features such as mental health, implicit motives and resilience and were more accurate than half of all teams. Accuracy with explainability! #CLPsych aclanthology.org/2025.clpsych-1…

@APA_Journals I led this research with a brilliant team, with the expert @J_M_Runge in the forefront, young genius Carl-Viggo together with @OscarKjell creating the easy implementation of these models in R and @adigan8 and @nikita_soni_ representing the computer science department 🙏🙏🙏

@APA_Journals 7/7 This coding automation with fast, high-quality codings can enable a renaissance of implicit motive codings, a field dating back to psychology legends Henry Murray and Gordon Allport in the 1930s. 💤->🔔->🏋️‍♀️

Now published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 🥳 See psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-… An updated summary 👇👇👇

New study with a billion words! Here’s the 60-second version. ⏲️ nature.com/articles/s4159… @NaturePortfolio @sharathguntuku @UChicago

Very fun to work with the fantastic harmony gurus @drtimlomas, @OscarKjell, Ryan Niemiec, James Pawelski, Noah Padgett and Tyler VanderWeele on this paper 🙌

8/8 Bottom line✅: Balance = life’s parts working together ⚖️ Harmony = quality of relationships 🫂 They’re more distinct than previously assumed. #d1e257" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

1/8 Balance ⚖️ vs. Harmony ☯️: Two emerging well-being constructs often sloppily used interchangeably. But they’re distinct. Balance = broad life domains ⚖️ Harmony = relationships🧘 We asked 15,275 people across 154 nations to show it. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…