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Main Authors: Chen, Huiyao, Liu, Ruimeng, Luo, Yan, Zhang, Jiawen, Zhang, Meishan, Hu, Baotian, Zhang, Min
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03259
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  • The intersection of artificial intelligence and psychological science has experienced remarkable growth, with annual publications expanding from 859 papers in 2000 to 29,979 by 2025. However, this rapid evolution has created methodological fragmentation where similar computational techniques are independently developed across isolated psychological domains. This survey introduces the first systematic taxonomy that organizes AI-driven psychology tasks by computational processing patterns rather than application domains, categorizing them into four fundamental types: classification, regression, structured relational, and generative interactive tasks. Through analysis of over 300 representative works spanning the pre-trained model era and large language model era, we examine how computational approaches evolved from task-specific feature engineering to transfer learning and few-shot adaptation. We provide systematic coverage of datasets, evaluation metrics, and benchmarks while addressing fundamental challenges including interpretability, label uncertainty, privacy constraints, and cross-cultural validity. This computational perspective reveals transferable methodological patterns previously obscured by domain-centric organization, enabling systematic knowledge transfer and accelerated progress in computational psychology.