When Bayesian estimation is used to analyze Structural Equation Models (SEMs), prior
distributions need to be specified for all parameters in the model. Many popular software …

The current paper highlights a new, interactive Shiny App that can be used to aid in
understanding and teaching the important task of conducting a prior sensitivity analysis …

A large body of research suggests that extraversion is positively related to well-being.
However, it is unclear whether this association can be explained by social participation (ie …

In low‐stakes assessments, test performance has few or no consequences for examinees
themselves, so that examinees may not be fully engaged when answering the items. Instead …

Self-control is the ability to (1) initiate, and (2) persist in boring, difficult or disliked activity,
and to (3) inhibit impulses to act. We explored the self-regulatory strategies that people use …

Response time modelling is develo** rapidly in the field of psychometrics, and its use is
growing in psychology. In most applications, component models for response times are …

Background Previous research suggests that there is a bidirectional relationship between
incidental affect (ie, how people feel in day-to-day life) and physical activity behavior …

Various theoretical accounts suggest that within-person effects relating to everyday
experiences (assessed, eg, via experience sampling studies or daily diary studies) are a …

Fair performance assessment requires consideration of the effects of rater severity on
scoring. The many-facet Rasch model (MFRM), an item response theory model that …

In the analysis of hierarchical data, multilevel structural equation modeling (multilevel SEM)
has become the standard in the social sciences. To estimate these models, maximum …