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Armin Klaps

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2344-040X
    20152025

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    My research is driven by a clinical interest in how psychological experience, behavior, and meaning-making are shaped by underlying processes that are not always fully accessible to conscious reflection. I am particularly interested in how these processes manifest in contexts where interpersonal experience is increasingly mediated by digital environments and intelligent systems.

    From a clinical-psychological perspective, my work focuses on constructs such as autonomy, agency, identity, and relational experience, especially in situations involving socially sensitive or stigmatized phenomena. I examine how subjective self-reports, observable behavior, and underlying psychological dynamics may diverge, and how such discrepancies can be understood in terms of adaptation, coping, and psychological well-being. A key area of this work involves the study of hidden or marginalized online communities, with an emphasis on clinically relevant patterns of motivation, self-concept, and meaning-making.

    In parallel, I investigate human–AI interaction, with a specific focus on large language models and simulated personality systems. Drawing on established personality frameworks and clinical theory, I explore how different AI personality configurations influence user trust, emotional responses, and perceived relational quality in applied domains such as legal and health-related contexts. Methodologically, my research integrates psychometric assessment, experimental designs, and qualitative analysis.

    Across these domains, my overarching goal is to bridge clinical psychology and technology research by contributing to psychologically grounded, ethically informed, and clinically sensitive digital systems, while advancing a deeper understanding of human psychological experience in contemporary digital life.

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    • BF Psychology
    • H Social Sciences (General)
    • Q Science (General)
    • QA76 Computer software

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