Research

Assessing individual differences (e.g., personality) with technology-empowered methods (e.g., artificial intelligence based chatbots)

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Personality assessment (via AI chatbots)

• Modeling individual language patterns and psychological constructs to generate AI-augmented data for scalable psychological assessment (2026)

• Beyond Scales and Essays: Artificial Intelligence Chatbots as Personality Interviewers (2026)

• Generative Personality Simulation via Theory-Informed Structured Interview (2026)

• Automating Personality-Based Employment Interviews: Development And Validation Of An Artificial Intelligence Chatbot (2025)

• Personality Auto-Scoring with Large Language Models Using a Realistic Accuracy Model of Behavioral Cues in Chatbot Interviews (2025)

• Can LLM "Self-report"?: Evaluating the Validity of Self-report Scales in Measuring Personality Design in LLM-based Chatbots (2025)

• Development and validation of an artificial intelligence chatbot to assess personality (2024)

• How well can an AI chatbot infer personality? Examining psychometric properties of machine-inferred personality scores (2023)

• Artificial intelligence powered personality assessment: A multidimensional psychometric natural language processing perspective (2021)

User perception

• Perception is reality? Understanding user perceptions of chatbot-inferred versus self-reported personality traits (2024)

Model development, validity and application in personnel selection

NLP organizational application

• Ensuring Transparency and Trust in Supervised Machine Learning Studies: A Checklist for Organizational Researchers (2026)

• Generative Personality Simulation via Theory-Informed Structured Interview (2025)

• Generative Artificial Intelligence in Business Research: Unpacking the Research Divide Through Analytics-based Methods Systematic Literature Review (2025)

• Not Yet: Large Language Models Cannot Replace Human Respondents for Psychometric Research (2024) 

• Smarter people analytics with organizational text data: Demonstrations using classic and advanced NLP models (2024)

• Interpretable Natural Language Processing Models for Organizational Research (2024)

• Improving measurement and prediction in personnel selection through the application of machine learning (2023)

• Practical machine learning algorithms for selection assessment scoring: A use case report on multi-outcome prediction (2023)

NLP other applications!

• Measuring Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults Using Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Narrative Interviews (2025)

• Assessing Vocational Interests through Chat: Development and Validation of the Career Guidance Chatbot (CGC-bot) (2024)

Research methods development and psychometrics validation

Structural Equation Modeling

• Self-Regulatory Profile Scale: Development and initial psychometric validation using Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM) (2025)

Bayesian Statistics

• Estimating the Multidimensional Generalized Graded Unfolding Model with Covariates using a Bayesian approach (2023)

• bmggum: An R Package for Bayesian Estimation of the Multidimensional Generalized Graded Unfolding Model With Covariates (2021)

Bifactor models

• Using Bifactor Models to Examine the Predictive Validity of Hierarchical Constructs: Pros, Cons, and Solutions (2021)

• Small but Nontrivial: A Comparison of Six Strategies to Handle Cross-Loadings in Bifactor Predictive Models (2021)

Forced choice

• The More Contextualized, the More Valid: Effects of Contextualization Strategies on Forced-choice Measurement (2025)

• Mix-keying or desirability-matching in the construction of forced-choice scales: An empirical investigation (2024)

• The Generalized Thurstonian Unfolding Model (GTUM): Advancing the modeling of forced-choice data (2023)

• autoFC: An R Package for Automatic Item Pairing in Forced-Choice Test Construction (2022)

• Though Forced, Still Valid: Psychometric Equivalence of Forced-Choice and Single-Statement Measures (2021)

• Forced choice to overcome the cross-cultural response style bias problem (2021)

Item response theory

• One size does not fit all: Unraveling item response process heterogeneity using the Mixture Dominance-Unfolding Model (MixDUM) (2025)

• Faking Detection Improved: Adopting a Likert Item Response Process Tree Model (2022)

• Matches Made With Information: Fitting Measurement Models to Adult Attachment Data (2020)

• “Meh!”: Examining Midpoint Endorsement Habitude (MEH) in survey research (2019)

Factor analysis

• Pseudo Factor Analysis of Language Embedding Similarity Matrices: New Ways to Model Latent Constructs (2024)

• Enhancing Scale Development: Pseudo Factor Analysis of Language Embedding Similarity Matrices (2024)

More statistical methods!

• Convex Hull Applications to Natural Language Psychometrics (2024)

Other fun psychology & technology related projects!

• I remember it all too well: Gig workers’ psychological detachment after receiving negative customer feedback and the roles of job security and handling time (2025)

• A diary study in gig workers' psychological detachment after receiving complaints (2023)

• Workplace gossip: An integrative review of its antecedents, functions, and consequences (2023)