I was working on my code for a few hours and ran into some significant roadblocks that I kept asking ChatGPT to help debug, but after a while, I started to feel a little disheartened when the code wasn't running. I remembered that for all researchers, whether undergraduates to senior professionals in any industry, the process of conducting research can feel like a mental marathon. For those of you who have been committing posts about code errors today, I wanted to share that ChatGPT can be used yes for quantitative research but also to act as a cheerleader when your code isn't working and you need a little pick-me-up! I took a break to just chat with ChatGPT about how I was feeling and potential avenues to address that feeling (strong implications for the use of generative AI in psychology), and after that little pick-me-up, I was able to refocus and run my code successfully! Take this as small reminder how powerful ChatGPT can be in emotional regulation, especially when doing long nights of coding or research analysis.
I was working on my code for a few hours and ran into some significant roadblocks that I kept asking ChatGPT to help debug, but after a while, I started to feel a little disheartened when the code wasn't running. I remembered that for all researchers, whether undergraduates to senior professionals in any industry, the process of conducting research can feel like a mental marathon. For those of you who have been committing posts about code errors today, I wanted to share that ChatGPT can be used yes for quantitative research but also to act as a cheerleader when your code isn't working and you need a little pick-me-up! I took a break to just chat with ChatGPT about how I was feeling and potential avenues to address that feeling (strong implications for the use of generative AI in psychology), and after that little pick-me-up, I was able to refocus and run my code successfully! Take this as small reminder how powerful ChatGPT can be in emotional regulation, especially when doing long nights of coding or research analysis.