About
I am a PhD candidate at Tilburg University’s Department of Methodology and Statistics (2023 – 2027), with a particular interest in understanding generative language models through psychological measurement frameworks. My work focuses on if – and how – psychometric approaches can be used to validly assess the behaviour of these models.
Research and conference presentations
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2025
Peereboom, S., Schwabe, I., & Kleinberg, B. (2025). Cognitive phantoms in large language models through the lens of latent variables. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 100161.
- ODISSEI 2024 – Utrecht, the Netherlands
(poster presentation) - NLPSI @ ICWSM 2025 – Copenhagen, Denmark
(workshop presentation)
2024
Kleinberg, B., Zegers, J., Festor, J., Vida, S., Präsent, J., Loconte, R., & Peereboom, S. (2024). Trying to be human: Linguistic traces of stochastic empathy in language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.01675.
- ODISSEI 2024 – Utrecht, the Netherlands
Teaching
2025 / 2026
Multidisciplinary Data Challenge – Co-coordinator
University-wide elective + BSc Data Science
Tilburg University + Eindhoven University of Technology
2024 / 2025
Multidisciplinary Data Challenge – Co-coordinator
University-wide elective + BSc Data Science
(240 students)
Tilburg University + Eindhoven University of Technology
Machine Behaviour – Guest lecture
Interdisciplinary BSc elective
(35 students)
Tilburg University
Data Acquisition Methods – Seminar teacher
BSc Data Science
(50 students)
Tilburg University + Eindhoven University of Technology
2023 / 2024
Data Acquisition Methods – Seminar teacher
BSc Data Science
(50 students)
Tilburg University + Eindhoven University of Technology
Contact and links
Email: s.peereboom [at] tilburguniversity [dot] edu
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
Computational Psychology and Computational Methods Lab website
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