Exploring the Elicitors of Happiness in India
In this paper, published in Psychological Studies, we examine environmental and situational elicitors of happiness in India.
Modeling Sequential Dependencies in Progressive Matrices: An Auto-Regressive Item Response Theory (AR-IRT) Approach
In this paper, published in Journal of Intelligence, we extend binary item-response models to include auto-regressive sequential dependencies, and show that AR-IRT can improve fit and yield more conservative parameter estimates in progressive matrices data.
Personality Traits Leading Respondents to Refuse to Answer a Forced-Choice Personality Item: An Item Response Tree (IRTree) Model
In this paper, published in Psych, we investigate which personality traits predict refusal to choose in forced-choice personality items, using an IRTree model to jointly model skipping behavior and reported reasons for refusal.
Unscrambling Creativity Measurement: An Invitation to Better Formalize the Domain Generality-Specificity of Creativity with Psychometric Modeling
In this paper, published in Learning and Individual Differences, we revisit how creativity is conceptualized and measured, and invite researchers to better formalize the domain generality-specificity question using explicit psychometric models.
Creativity with 6 Degrees of Freedom: Feasibility Study of Visual Creativity Assessment in Virtual Reality
In this paper, published in Creativity Research Journal, we evaluate the feasibility and psychometric properties of a visual creativity assessment implemented in immersive virtual reality, including evidence on structural validity, reliability, and criterion validity.