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Take a look at my most recent scientific contributions to the field of positive psychology, wellbeing, and human-centered artificial intelligence.
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Research Spanning Five Domains
Positive Psychology & Wellbeing
Examining the science of flourishing, meaning, work engagement, and wellbeing across cultures and career contexts.
Wellbeing Interventions
Design and evaluation of evidence-based positive psychological interventions, from brief protocols to multi-week coaching programmes, tested in clinical, academic, and organisational settings.
Psychometrics & Organisational Diagnostics
Development and cross-cultural validation of measurement instruments for wellbeing, self-efficacy, and organisational constructs using ESEM, ICM-CFA, and longitudinal invariance frameworks.
AI & Technology
Examining how artificial intelligence reshapes psychological practice: the competence paradox, unintended consequences, and the AI-IARA framework for cultivating human agency.
Meta-science & Critique
Methodological contributions to the discipline: systematic reviews of positive psychology's criticisms, reproducibility standards, and grand challenge statements for the field.
Publications
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Showing 6 of 168 publications
“The normal flow of time stopped with the normal flow of life”: A mixed methods investigation of multifaceted subjective experiences of time during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
Time & Society
Authors: Anna Navin Young, Zelda Di Blasi, Llewellyn E. van Zyl, Sarah Foley, Eithne Hunt
Systemic virtues and systemic strengths: Expanding positive psychology beyond individual character
The Journal of Positive Psychology
Authors: Llewellyn E. van Zyl
The Agentic Digital Twin-Led Assessment System (ATLAS): A new architecture for psychological assessment in the era of agentic AI
The Journal of Positive Psychology
Authors: Llewellyn E. van Zyl
The “Twilight Zone” Is a Danger Zone: Why the Occupational-Clinical Divide in Burnout Assessment Is a False Dichotomy
Evaluation & the Health Professions
Authors: Llewellyn Ellardus van Zyl
The AI-IARA framework: How to cultivate human agency before artificial intelligence optimizes it a(ny)way
The Journal of Positive Psychology
Authors: Llewellyn E. van Zyl
The competence paradox: when psychologists overestimate their understanding of Artificial Intelligence
AI & SOCIETY
Authors: Llewellyn Ellardus van Zyl
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