During the 21st PSPS Congress, held on 17–19 September 2026, Prof. Artur Pokropek and Dr Maria Flakus organized a symposium entitled Language as a Source of Psychosocial Data: Modern Methods for Analyzing Statements and Public Discourse.
The symposium included the following presentations:
- Decomposing Textual Features into Distinct Semantic Layers (Paweł Lenartowicz & Hubert Plisiecki)
- Between Fantasy and Conflict: Linguistic Manifestations of Narcissism in Social Media (Marcin Zajenkowski & Maria Leniarska)
- From Identity to Language: Semantic Correlates of Collective Narcissism and National Identification (Maria Flakus et al.)
- How Migration Narratives Shape Engagement on Platform X: An Exploratory Analysis Using Latent Semantic Scaling Enhanced with Transformer Models (Kinga Małyska et al.)
- Can Text-Based Measures Be Validated Psychometrically? Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling Using Word Embeddings (CFA-WE/SEM-WE) (Artur Pokropek)
During another session of the conference, Dr Marek Muszyński delivered two presentations:
- Students versus Panelists: Comparing Attention Check Performance Across Sample Pools (co-author: Katarzyna Kubik, University of Warsaw)
- No Effort, No Fit: How Inattentive Responding Puts CFA Out of Shape (co-author: Prof. Piotr Jabkowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
During the same session, Dr Hubert Plisiecki also presented a paper entitled The Pinocchio Dimension: Phenomenality of Experience as the Primary Axis of LLM Psychometric Differences.A summary of the conference prepared by the organizers is available on the PSPS website. The 21st PSPS Congress was organized by the University of Warsaw, SWPS University, and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (UKSW).
