Reference
Methodology
How the interpretable proxies are built and validated — the published lenses and the cross-system leaderboard.
Orientation

What is PsyProxy

Every organization is sitting on text — reviews, support chats, session transcripts, open-ended survey answers. Plenty of tools can predict from that text. Almost none can tell you why in words a person can act on. PsyProxy reads text the way psychology reads people: it scores every passage against hundreds of named, research-grounded measures — Frustration, Perceived Usefulness, Trust, Life Satisfaction — and then explains whatever outcome you care about with one short, readable equation built from a handful of them.

Here’s what that looks like in practice. We pointed PsyProxy at 300,000 Amazon video-game reviews and asked it to predict each review’s star rating from the text alone. It beat sentiment tools, dictionaries, topic models, and a ChatGPT-based scorer — but the point is how. The whole model is fifteen named measures with visible weights. Life satisfaction language pushes ratings up. Moral-wrongness language, the reviews accusing sellers of scams and false advertising, pushes them down hardest. You don’t have to trust a black box; you can read the model like a sentence and check it against your own intuition.

That readability is why PsyProxy serves two audiences at once. For science, the measures live in fixed, versioned “lenses,” so results are comparable across studies and teams. Any published equation carries its lens marker, like [PsyProxy.ai/Lens/PL40], so other researchers can rerun and challenge the equation on their own data. For business, it turns text into decisions you can defend: which feelings actually drive your ratings, churn, or complaints, and therefore what to fix, with one equation you can rerun every quarter against the same fixed measures. Across ten benchmark tasks, from drug-treatment effectiveness to suicide-risk detection, PsyProxy took the best average rank of any approach while staying entirely inspectable.

How PsyProxy turns text into a readable predictionFour stages: a raw Amazon review, a fixed lens scoring it on named psychological measures such as Moral Wrongness Appraisal and Frustration, one compact regression equation with visible weights and a lens marker, and a predicted star rating of about 1.7 out of 5 pulled down by moral-wrongness and frustration language.1Your text“Total scam. Nothing like the description — a complete waste of money.”one of 299,990 Amazon video-game reviews2A fixed lens scores itMoral Wrongness AppraisalFrustrationPerceived UsefulnessGlobal Life Satisfactionillustrative scores for this review · right = elevated, left = low3One compact equationStar rating = 3.89 + 0.156·Global Life Satisfaction − 0.177·Moral Wrongness− 0.132·Frustration − 0.173·Perceived Time Waste − …[PsyProxy.ai/Lens/PL…]4A result you can readpredicted ≈ 1.7 of 5pulled down by moral-wrongness and frustration languageThe lens is fixed and versioned, so the same equation runs on anyone’s new text —results stay comparable across teams, studies, and quarters.
Leaderboardmethodology/gold_medal_page.html

Gold Medal Page

Olympic-style medal tally across the v5 dataset cards. Each (dataset, target) is one competition. Only datasets with at least 5 criterion-model families competing count toward the medal table — uncontested entries (PsyProxy alone) are excluded. PsyProxy competes as one family (best of 4 lenses × strict/permissive + Sinhala translation arms). OpenAI competes as one family (best of Rathje-construct regression on GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4.1-nano, GPT-5-nano). Lexicon-based and topic-model baselines compete as their own singletons. Primary metric per task type: binary =FVE․Binomial, ordinal =Quadratic Kappa, regression =R², multilabel/multiclass =Macro F1.

Walkthrough

Run an analysis in the browser, step by step

Worked example coming soon.

The lenses

Browse the published lenses

Every published lens with its dimensions, definitions, band ranges, and top constructs — open a lens to page through its full dimension atlas.