Research

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

• Talk to our AI chatbot to assess your personality!

Personality assessment via AI chatbots

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User perception

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

Model development, validity and application in personnel selection

NLP application

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

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

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

• Generative Personality Simulation via Theory-Informed Structured Interview

Faking

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

Research methods development and psychometrics validation

Bifactor models

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

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

Forced choice

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

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

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

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

Item response theory

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

Factor analysis

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

More statistical methods!

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

Other fun psychology & technology related projects!

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