ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024
Language sentiment predicts changes in depressive symptoms.
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- Effectiveness of Chatbots in Mental Health Screening and Assessment: Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2026Pooled it
- The Application and Ethical Implication of Generative AI in Mental Health: Systematic Review.JMIR mental health · 2025Pooled it
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- Generative Large Language Models in Mental Health Care Settings: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR AI · 2026Review
- Fine-tuning large language models for detecting negative self-referential language in smartphone text among youth with depression.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2026Article
- Cognitive modeling of real-world behavior for understanding mental health.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2026Review
- Assessing personality using zero-shot generative AI scoring of brief open-ended text.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Threading the Needle: Practical Considerations for Merging Theory-Driven Computational Psychiatry With Data-Driven Analytics to Enhance Precision Health at Scale.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2026Review
- Language-based assessments can predict psychological and subjective well-being.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Interpretable depression assessment using a large language model.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- A randomised cross over trial examining the linguistic markers of depression and anxiety in symptomatic adults.Npj mental health research · 2025Article
- Artificial intelligence can emulate human normative judgments on emotional visual scenes.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Language sentiment predicts changes in depressive symptoms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
The prevalence of depression is a major societal health concern, and there is an ongoing need to develop tools that predict who will become depressed. Past research suggests that depression changes the language we use, but it is unclear whether language is predictive of worsening symptoms. Here, we test whether the sentiment of brief written linguistic responses predicts changes in depression. Across two studies (
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