Improving Behavior Science Experiments with LLMs and Milvus

Dr. Damon Abraham, a behavioral scientist with a PhD in Psychology, has researched how reappraising an image can shift our valence and arousal emotions. His project aims to create a stimuli repository for experimental psychology using LLM and vector database technologies. The research involves collaboration with the University of Denver and other institutions, and it seeks to develop an open-source normative database of images and techniques to measure the dynamic psychological distance between images and their potential for successful reappraisal. In his presentation at the Zilliz Unstructured Data Meetup in Seattle on February 13, 2024, Dr. Abraham discussed how different contextual interpretations of images can change our feelings, providing insights into emotional regulation. The study also explores the concept of 'reappraisal affordances,' which examines how an image's inherent semantic properties and range of associations may affect its capacity for reinterpretation.