Nikolay BPetrov

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Education

University of Cambridge

PhD, Psychology

2023 – present

University of Cambridge

Rediscovering Personality using Large Language Models

University of Oxford

MSc Psychological Research Methods

2020 – 2021

University of Oxford

Distinction

University of Greenwich

BSc Psychology

2016 – 2020

University of Greenwich

First class, top of the class

Experience

Forecasting Research Institute

Research Assistant

March, 2023 – present

Forecasting Research Institute

Identification of super-forecasters

Cardiff University

Research Assistant

June 2021 – Feb, 2023

Cardiff University

Cognition and Computational Brain lab

University of Cambridge

Research Assistant

Mar, 2021 – Sep, 2023

University of Cambridge

Personality and Social Dynamics lab

University of Greenwich

Research Assistant

Nov, 2017 – Oct, 2020

University of Greenwich

Super Recognisers Greenwich lab

Research

Publications

2025
Published

Robinson, O. C., Petrov, N., Vleioras, G., Çok, F., Özdoğan, H. K., Yeler, Z., ... & Fisher, A. (2025). Quarter-life Crisis Episodes in Emerging Adulthood: a mixed-methods analysis of data from eight countries. Emerging Adulthood, 13(6), 1491-1506.

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2025
Under Review

Petrov, N. B., Lim, V., Fillon, A., & Feldman, G. (2025). Values and the dark side: Meta-analysis of links between Dark Triad traits and personal values. Under Review.

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2024
Pre-print

Petrov, N. B., Serapio-García, G., & Rentfrow, J. (2024). Limited ability of LLMs to simulate human psychological behaviours: a psychometric analysis. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.07248.

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2023
Published

de Leeuw, J. R., Gilbert, R. A., Petrov, N., & Luchterhandt, B. (2023). Simulating Behavior to Help Researchers Build Experiments. Behaviour Research Methods, 55(4), 1863-1873.

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2023
Published

Petrov, N. B., Chan, Y. K. M., Lau, C. N., Kwok, T. H., Chow, L. C. E., Lo, W. Y., Song, W., & Feldman, G. (2023). Sunk Cost Effects for Time Versus Money: Replication and Extensions Registered Report of Soman (2001). International Review of Social Psychology, 36(1): 17, 1–18.

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2022
Published

Petrov, N., Robinson, O., & Arnett, J. J. (2022). The Developmental Crisis Questionnaire (DCQ-12): Psychometric Development and Validation. Journal of Adult Development, 29(4), 265-278.

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2022
Published

Petrov, N., Atanasov, V., & Thompson, T. (2022). Open-source MUltiple tests corrections and FOrmatted tables Software (MUFOS). Journal of Open Research Software, 10(1), 5.

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2021
Published

Noyes, E., Davis, J., Petrov, N., Gray, K.L.H, & Richie, K. (2021). The effect of face masks and sunglasses on identity and expression recognition with super-recognizers and typical observers. Royal Society Open Science, 8(3).

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2021
Published

Davis, J. P., Dray, C., Petrov, N., & Belanova, E. (2021). Low prevalence match and mismatch detection in simultaneous face matching: Influence of face recognition ability and feature focus guidance. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 83(7), 2937–2954.

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2019
Published

Petrov, N., & Robinson, O.C. (2019, May). What do dreams really mean? The relationship between dream content, age, recent experienced emotions and crisis episodes in adults. Poster session presented at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Harrogate, UK.

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