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View article: Bayesian Estimation of Generalized Log-Linear Poisson Item Response Models for Fluency Scores Using brms and Stan
Bayesian Estimation of Generalized Log-Linear Poisson Item Response Models for Fluency Scores Using brms and Stan Open
Divergent thinking tests are popular instruments to measure a person’s creativity. They often involve scoring fluency, which refers to the count of ideas generated in response to a prompt. The two-parameter Poisson counts model (2PPCM), a …
View article: Modeling Sequential Dependencies in Progressive Matrices: An Auto-Regressive Item Response Theory (AR-IRT) Approach
Modeling Sequential Dependencies in Progressive Matrices: An Auto-Regressive Item Response Theory (AR-IRT) Approach Open
Measurement models traditionally make the assumption that item responses are independent from one another, conditional upon the common factor. They typically explore for violations of this assumption using various methods, but rarely do th…
View article: Personality Traits Leading Respondents to Refuse to Answer a Forced-Choice Personality Item: An Item Response Tree (IRTree) Model
Personality Traits Leading Respondents to Refuse to Answer a Forced-Choice Personality Item: An Item Response Tree (IRTree) Model Open
In the present article, we investigate personality traits that may lead a respondent to refuse to answer a forced-choice personality item. For this purpose, we use forced-choice items with an adapted response format. As in a traditional fo…
View article: Can robots do therapy?: Examining the efficacy of a CBT bot in comparison with other behavioral intervention technologies in alleviating mental health symptoms
Can robots do therapy?: Examining the efficacy of a CBT bot in comparison with other behavioral intervention technologies in alleviating mental health symptoms Open
Artificial intelligence therapy bots are gaining traction in the psychotherapy marketplace. Yet, the only existing study examining the efficacy of a therapy bot lacks any meaningful controls for comparison in claiming its effectiveness to …
View article: Personality Predicts Indecisive Responses to Forced-Choice Items
Personality Predicts Indecisive Responses to Forced-Choice Items Open
View article: Analysis of an Intelligence Dataset
Analysis of an Intelligence Dataset Open
In this issue, psychometrics researchers were invited to make reanalyses or extensions of a previously published dataset from a recent paper by Myszkowski and Storme (2018). The dataset analyzed consisted of responses to a multiple-choice …
View article: Analysis of an Intelligence Dataset
Analysis of an Intelligence Dataset Open
It is perhaps popular belief—at least among non-psychometricians—that there is a unique or standard way to investigate the psychometric qualities of tests [...]
View article: A Mokken Scale Analysis of the Last Series of the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM-LS)
A Mokken Scale Analysis of the Last Series of the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM-LS) Open
Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices (Raven 1941) is a widely used 60-item long measure of general mental ability. It was recently suggested that, for situations where taking this test is too time consuming, a shorter version, comprised o…
View article: Using Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Measures in Museum Studies
Using Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Measures in Museum Studies Open
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 10 March 2020Sec. Environmental Psychology Volume 11 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00414
View article: A forgotten antecedent of career adaptability: A study on the predictive role of within-person variability in personality
A forgotten antecedent of career adaptability: A study on the predictive role of within-person variability in personality Open
View article: Commentary on Corradi et al.’s (2019) new conception of aesthetic sensitivity: Is the ability conception dead?
Commentary on Corradi et al.’s (2019) new conception of aesthetic sensitivity: Is the ability conception dead? Open
Corradi et al. ( British Journal of Psychology , 2019) argue that their new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity (as responsiveness to aesthetic features in one’s preferences) presents several advantages in comparison with the curren…
View article: Confirmation of a Two-Factor Solution to the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy in a French Population of Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Confirmation of a Two-Factor Solution to the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy in a French Population of Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders Open
The Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE) is a tool for self-assessing the cognitive and emotional components of empathy. A study showed that a two-factor model fits the data of patients with schizophrenia, whereas other …
View article: Same Test, Better Scores: Boosting the Reliability of Short Online Intelligence Recruitment Tests with Nested Logit Item Response Theory Models
Same Test, Better Scores: Boosting the Reliability of Short Online Intelligence Recruitment Tests with Nested Logit Item Response Theory Models Open
Assessing job applicants’ general mental ability online poses psychometric challenges due to the necessity of having brief but accurate tests. Recent research (Myszkowski & Storme, 2018) suggests that recovering distractor information thro…
View article: R package – nhstplot
R package – nhstplot Open
Illustrate graphically the most common Null Hypothesis Significance Testing procedures. More specifically, this package provides functions to plot Chi-Squared, F, t (one- and two-tailed) and z (one- and two-tailed) tests, by plotting the p…
View article: Career Decision Ambiguity Tolerance and Career Decision-Making Difficulties in a French Sample: The Mediating Role of Career Decision Self-Efficacy
Career Decision Ambiguity Tolerance and Career Decision-Making Difficulties in a French Sample: The Mediating Role of Career Decision Self-Efficacy Open
In the current work, we investigated the relationship between career decision ambiguity tolerance (CDAT) and career decision-making difficulties among French-speaking university students. In a preliminary validation study ( N = 246), we ex…
View article: Individual Differences in Aesthetic Ability: The Case for an Aesthetic Quotient
Individual Differences in Aesthetic Ability: The Case for an Aesthetic Quotient Open
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 19 May 2016Sec. Perception Science Volume 7 - 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00750