Special Issue

Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks: New Perspectives for Psychological Research

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2026 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editor

Vsevolod Konstantinov, PhD

Professor and Head, Department of General Psychology, Penza State University, 440026 Penza, Russia

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Research Interests: Problems of adaptation of migrants in new living conditions; artificial intelligence tools in psychology; transformation of migrant identity; ethnic identity; local community; integration; migrants; refugees

Co-Editor

Pavel Ustin, PhD

Head of the Department of General Psychology, Kazan Federal University, 420111, Kazan, Russia

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Research Interests: Personality behavior in digital environments; neural network modeling of personality behavior; artificial intelligence tools in psychology; social network psychology; big data in psychology; ethical personality psychology

About This Topic

The rapid development of the digital environment and information and communication technologies opens new horizons for psychological research. On the one hand, people's behaviour and their interaction with each other are changing. Virtual forms of behaviour of users of the digital environment are emerging. Social networks emerge with their unprecedented possibilities of disseminating information and misinformation, manipulating consciousness, uniting like-minded people from all over the world and splitting societies into many information bubbles. On the other hand, artificial intelligence and neural networks significantly expand the research capabilities of psychologists: conducting psychodiagnostic slices on huge samples (big data), automation of psychological analysis and interpretation of research results with the identification of hidden and implicit patterns, digital modelling of various psychological phenomena. The special issue welcomes empirical research related to the problems of artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks and personality in the digital environment. In particular, these may include the following topics: peculiarities of personality behaviour in the digital environment, communication and interaction of social network users; peculiarities of intercultural communication and personality adaptation in the digital environment; the use of neural networks and artificial intelligence for cross-cultural psychological research; predictors of personality behaviour in the digital environment; modelling of psychological phenomena using machine learning methods; neural network models of cognitive, behavioural and socio-psychological phenomena in the digital environment; neural network models of cognitive, behavioural and socio-psychological phenomena. In this special issue, we would welcome manuscripts of different types, such as articles, reviews and conceptual papers of disciplinary or interdisciplinary nature that will contribute to the analysis of the problem field of artificial intelligence and neural networks from new perspectives.

Keywords

Artificial intelligence; neural networks; social networks; personality in the digital environment; personality adaptation in the digital environment; neural network models of cognitive; behavioural and socio-psychological phenomena

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