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cs.CL2026

"AI Is Turning Too Human": How Teenagers Experience and Negotiate AI in Everyday Life

Jianfeng Zhu

Generative AI is rapidly entering adolescents' everyday lives during a critical period of cognitive, social and emotional development. Yet its adoption is outpacing evidence on how…

cs.CL2026

Characterizing the Temporal, Emotional, and Social Patterns of Adolescent Substance Use Discussions on Reddit

Leran Hong, Lei Jin, Jianfeng Zhu

Adolescence is a critical developmental period marked by heightened emotional sensitivity, social stress, and vulnerability to substance use. However, traditional research methods…

cs.CL2026

When Symptoms Are Not Enough: Evidence-Weighting Patterns in Large Language Model Psychiatric Screening

Jianfeng Zhu, Megan Korhummel, Ruoming Jin +1

As demand for mental health care outpaces clinician-delivered assessment, scalable screening tools are increasingly needed. Large language models (LLMs) may identify psychiatric ri…

cs.CL2026

What Do AI Agents Talk About? Discourse and Architectural Constraints in the First AI-Only Social Network

Taksch Dube, Jianfeng Zhu, NHatHai Phan +1

Moltbook is the first large-scale social network built for autonomous AI agent-to-agent interaction. Early studies on Moltbook have interpreted its agent discourse as evidence of p…

cs.CL2026★ 2 cited

Understanding Risk and Dependency in AI Chatbot Use from User Discourse

Jianfeng Zhu, Karin G. Coifman, Ruoming Jin

Generative AI systems are increasingly embedded in everyday life, yet empirical understanding of how psychological risk associated with AI use emerges, is experienced, and is regul…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

AI-Powered Early Diagnosis of Mental Health Disorders from Real-World Clinical Conversations

Jianfeng Zhu, Julina Maharjan, Xinyu Li +2

Mental health disorders remain among the leading cause of disability worldwide, yet conditions such as depression, anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are frequently…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating LLM Alignment on Personality Inference from Real-World Interview Data

Jianfeng Zhu, Julina Maharjan, Xinyu Li +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in roles requiring nuanced psychological understanding, such as emotional support agents, counselors, and decision-making ass…

cs.CL2025

Can LLMs Infer Personality from Real World Conversations?

Jianfeng Zhu, Ruoming Jin, Karin G. Coifman

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT-4 and Meta's LLaMA offer a promising approach for scalable personality assessment from open-ended language. However, inferring per…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Investigating Large Language Models in Inferring Personality Traits from User Conversations

Jianfeng Zhu, Ruoming Jin, Karin G. Coifman

Large Language Models (LLMs) are demonstrating remarkable human like capabilities across diverse domains, including psychological assessment. This study evaluates whether LLMs, spe…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Emotions, Context, and Substance Use in Adolescents: A Large Language Model Analysis of Reddit Posts

Jianfeng Zhu, Hailong Jiang, Yulan Wang +3

Early substance use during adolescence increases the risk of later substance use disorders and mental health problems, yet the emotional and contextual factors driving these behavi…