Nils MyszkowskiPace University · Department of Psychology
Nils Myszkowski
PhD
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Introduction
I am an Associate Professor of in Psychology at Pace University (NYC).
My main research interest is in the development of psychometric methods to measure creative, judgment, social and emotional abilities.
I also have a special methodological interest in Item-Response Theory models and in the statistical computing language R.
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September 2015 - present
September 2014 - August 2015
September 2013 - present
Position
- Research Associate
Education
September 2010 - June 2013
Publications
Publications (68)
Fluency tasks are among the most common item formats for the assessment of certain cognitive abilities, such as verbal fluency or divergent thinking. A typical approach to the psychometric modeling of such tasks (e.g., Intelligence, 2016, 57, 25) is the Rasch Poisson Counts Model (RPCM; Probabilistic models for some intelligence and attainment test...
Although the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT; Amabile, 1982) is considered a gold standard in the measurement of product attributes-including creativity (Baer & McKool, 2009)-considerations on how to improve its scoring and psychometric modeling are rare. Recently, it was advanced (Myszkowski & Storme, 2019) that the framework of Item-Response...
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 examined the psychometric properties of the CDAT Scale. Our results showed that the French CDAT Scale had satisfac...
Several studies have focused on stable personality traits as antecedents of career adaptability, but few have investigated more dynamic aspects of personality in relation to career adaptability. Recent theories on personality such as Whole Trait Theory (Fleeson, 2015) recognize that traits are often aroused in one situation but not in another (Allp...
Happiness in the Indian context is a multidimensional construct. It goes beyond the mainstream understanding of hedonism and eudaimonia, encompassing concepts like spirituality/religiosity and righteousness. Research shows that globalization and traditions both have influenced the notion of happiness. In this study, we conducted a content analysis...
Item-response theory (IRT) represents a key advance in measurement theory. Yet, it is largely absent from curricula, textbooks and popular statistical software, and often introduced through a subset of models. This Element, intended for creativity and innovation researchers, researchers-in-training, and anyone interested in how individual creativit...
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 they account for the possibility that an item predicts the next. Extending the development of auto-regressive mod...
Objective. The question of the relationship between the diversity characteristics of a team and its performance is an important issue for organizations. Among the research that has addressed this issue, some have focused on the role of group faultlines, that is, hypothetical dividing lines that split a group into two or more subgroups based on the...
Objective. Personality questionnaires using forced-choice items are often preferred in high-stake contexts to counteract the social desirability bias. One of the downsides of the forced-choice approach is that a respondent can sometimes disapprove or approve with the same intensity of all the propositions composing an item, making the choice of a p...
Immersive virtual reality (IVR) takes advantage of exponential growth in our technological abilities to offer an array of new forms of entertainment, learning opportunities, and even psychological interventions and assessments. The field of creativity is a driving force in both large-scale innovations and everyday progress, and imbedding creativity...
Immigrant parents and their adolescent children face unique stressors that have been linked to an increased prevalence of negative mental health outcomes. Limited research has evaluated the use of brief, culturally sensitive, school-based mental health programming for immigrant families. The current study sought to evaluate the effectiveness and ac...
Objective. Self-reported personality traits are often described as valid but relatively weak predictors of job performance (Barrick & Mount, 1991), compared with other sources of individual differences, such as cognitive ability (Schmidt & Hunter, 1998) . However, research rarely investigates how personality traits relate to an individual’s career...
Objective. Personnel selection decisions are often informed by the use of personality questionnaires. Nevertheless, they can sometimes be impractical, because they may be too time consuming or expensive. Thus, it is desirable to be able to extract relevant information from other available sources (Akhtar et al., 2018). In this study, we propose to...
Based on the multivariate approach, a set of cognitive, conative and emotional characteristics can be identified as the psychological basis of creativity. These characteristics combine in interactive ways to yield varying degrees of creative potential. The large number of existing behavioral science studies permits a rich synthesis of results that...
In this chapter, we discuss the social environment as an important factor to consider in understanding creativity. We use as a framework for describing the environment’s effects on creativity Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory (1979, 1986), which proposes that the individual’s psychological development results from interactions with differe...
Career adaptability is better described as interconnected resources than as manifestations of a common factor. Using a sample of 1053 responses to the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale, we compared traditional confirmatory factor analysis models (unidimensional, bifactor, hierarchical) with a confirmatory network model, which is found to outperform the...
Previous research suggests a negative relationship between test taking speed and performance in mental ability testing, inviting researchers to explore the origin of individual differences in test taking speed. We investigate how personality could explain both one's initial speed and its evolution through test completion. 555 adult participants res...
Prior research on the value of personality traits for predicting negotiation outcomes is rather inconclusive. Building on prior research and in light of recent personality and negotiation theories, we discuss why the traditional approach to personality traits has had limited success and propose an alternative approach to predicting negotiation outc...
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. If anything, the present Special Issue demonstrates that it is not the case. On the contrary, this Special Issue on the "analysis of an intelligence dataset" is, in my opinion, a window to the p...
w/k Zwischen Wissenschaft & Kunst - A peer-reviewed online journal: The first round of the discussion on the Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test developed by Karl Otto Götz includes texts from Gerhard Stemberger, Herbert Fitzek, Nils Myszkowski, Riccardo Luccio, Thomas Jacobsen/Barbara E. Marschallek/Selina M. Weiler and Roy R. Behrens.
Published in...
Since the beginning of the time when researchers have endeavored to understand and identify giftedness and individual ability, they have been attentive to how individuals differ in their capacity to recognize aesthetic quality—a construct that is frequently referred to as aesthetic sensitivity. In this chapter, I first attempt to clarify what the i...
A growing line of research suggests that creativity and unethicality are intrinsically related to one another. However, the idea has been challenged both by theoretical arguments and by heterogeneous empirical findings. In the present work, we review the literature to reconcile seemingly opposed theoretical views on the relationship between creativ...
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 of only the last series of the Standard Progressive Matrices (the SPM-LS; Myszkowski and Storme (2018)) could be...
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 current ability view of aesthetic sensitivity, usually defined as the ability to judge aesthetic stimuli in accordance...
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 reports on healthy subjects have suggested a five-factor decomposition. We aimed to replicate the model of Hora...
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note...
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 through Nested Logit Models (NLM; Suh & Bolt, 2010) increases the reliability of ability estimates in reasoning mat...
Psychometric analysis and scoring of judgment data using polytomous Item-Response Theory (IRT) models, as described in Myszkowski and Storme (2019). A convenience function is used to automatically compare and select models, as well as to present a variety of model-based statistics. Plotting functions are used to present category curves, as well as...
The Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT)-more generally, using product creativity judgments-is a central and actively debated method to assess product and individual creativity. Despite a constant interest in strategies to improve its robustness, we argue that most psychometric investigations and scoring strategies for CAT data remain constrained...
Recent research (Myszkowski, Çelik, & Storme, 2018) has suggested that the ability to form accurate visual aesthetic judgments – an ability referred to as aesthetic sensitivity (Child, 1964), or “good taste” (Eysenck, 1983) – could be explained by the extent to which one taps into extensive processing strategies when facing aesthetic objects. Becau...
Performance in ability tasks is usually modeled Multiple-Choice Questionnaires is traditionally scored with Classical Test Theory �based sum or average scores, and psychometrically investigated with Cronbach�s Alpha. However, such methods do not account for variability between the items (in difficulty, construct saturation, guessing, slipping). A t...
Objective. Because of their length and objective of broad content coverage, very short scales can show limited internal consistency and structural validity. We argue that it is because their objectives may be better aligned with formative investigations than with reflective measurement methods that capitalize on content overlap. As proofs of concep...
Communication problems are a prevalent issue in international business. While language is a means of ensuring coordination among various company units, using the same language without company-specific features is not enough to ensure effective communication. Through the case study of an international (French-Asia) trading firm, we aimed to understa...
Although many instruments measure empathy, most of them focus on specific facets (e.g., Spreng et al., 2009) or specific contexts (e.g. Wang et al., 2003) of empathy. For this reason, the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affec-tive Empathy (QCAE; Reniers et al., 2011) was recently built to grasp the general construct of empathy through its Affective-...
Generate code for use with the Optical Mark Recognition free software Auto Multiple Choice (AMC). More specifically, this package provides functions that use as input the ques- tion and answer texts, and output the LaTeX code for AMC.
What makes individuals experts in judging aesthetic value is actively researched in a variety of ways. In the visual domain, one classical paradigm – used in “T” (for Taste) tests (Eysenck, 1983) – consists in comparing one’s evaluative judgments of beauty with a standard judgment – provided by consensual or expert agreement. The association betwee...
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 probability density under the null hypothesis as a function of the different test statistic values. Although hig...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between individual work-related curiosity and worker innovation and to test the mediating role of worker divergent thinking.
Design/methodology/approach
In all, 480 participants, holding 188 different jobs, filled in a validated work-related curiosity scale and indicated their jo...
Residents experience severely high levels of stress, depression and burnout, leading to perceived medical errors, as well as to symptoms of impairment, such as chronic anger, cognitive impairment, suicidal behavior and substance abuse. Because research has not yet provided a psychometrically robust population-specific tool to measure the level of s...
Previous literature suggested that anger and sadness may be necessary to restore social bonds in the face of immediate relationship threat. The present research compared the social effectiveness of expressing anger and sadness in response to a negative personal evaluation. Results indicated that target anger in response to a negative competence eva...
Although the reasons individuals have specific stable aesthetic preferences—for example, for abstract art or for classical music—are often studied (e.g., Furnham and Walker, 2001), there is a growing stream of research (e.g., Nodine et al., 1993; Chamorro-Premuzic and Furnham, 2004; Axelsson, 2007; Kozbelt and Seeley, 2007; Silvia, 2007; Myszkowski...
Although Hans Eysenck’s reputation is for the most part related to other works, empirical aesthetics was the topic of his PhD, a field in which he remained interested for a very long time, steering the domain’s wheel towards the study of individual differences. In this article, we review his work and impact in the field. We first argue that his wor...
The aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) in a French-speaking sample (1554 participants, 59.3% of women). Our results showed that the French version of the TIPI has acceptable psychometric properties with satisfactory levels of temporal stability (after three and six weeks), s...
Purpose
Our aim was investigate the role of attention, processing motivation, and processing depth in the relationship between self-reported subjective processing fluency and relevant advertisement variables such as ad attitude, brand attitude, and purchase intentions.
Design/methodology/approach
Two empirical studies were conducted using self-rep...
This study provides new evidence concerning task specificity in creativity – examining through a cross-cultural perspective the extent to which performance in graphic vs. verbal creativity tasks (domain specificity) and in divergent vs. convergent creativity tasks (process specificity) are correlated. The relations between different creativity task...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide new elements to understand, measure and predict managerial creativity. More specifically, based on new approaches to creative potential (Lubart et al., 2011), this study proposes to distinguish two aspects of managerial creative problem solving: divergent-exploratory thinking, in which managers try...
Overexcitability corresponds to an overall response to stimulations in 5 domains: psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational, and emotional. The aim of this study was to develop a French version of the Overexcitability Questionnaire 2 (OEQ2) and to expand its psychometric properties. Two studies were conducted: one with a sample of 474 adole...
Revising Snyder’s (1974) original Self-Monitoring Scale, Lennox and Wolfe’s (1984) double-sided approach distinguishes 2 aspects of self-monitoring: (a) the active, high self-esteem, and extrovert side, measured by the Revised Self-Monitoring Scale (RSMS); and (b) the protective, low self-esteem and anxious side, measured by the Concern for Appropr...
Visual aesthetic sensitivity has been conceived as an intelligence-independent and personality-independent disposition (Frois & Eysenck, 1995). However, recent research suggests that aesthetic experience and its outcomes can be predicted by personality traits (Furnham & Chamorro-Premuzic, 2004; Furnham & Walker, 2001; McCrae, 2007; Rawlings, Barran...
Myszkowski, N., Storme, M., Zenasni, F., & Lubart, T. (2014). French Concern for Appropriateness Scale [Database
record]. Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t34067-000
Instrument Type:
Rating Scale
Test Format:
Responses for the 20 items ranged from 0 (totally disagree) to 5 (totally agree) on 6-point Likert scales.
Source:...
PsycTESTS Citation:
Myszkowski, N., Storme, M., Zenasni, F., & Lubart, T. (2014). French Revised Self-Monitoring Scale [Database
record]. Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t35345-000
Instrument Type:
Rating Scale
Test Format:
All 13 items on the French Revised Self-Monitoring Scale are scored using a 6-point Likert scale fo...
This study sought to identify the factors that artists consider important for their creativity and to reconstruct, from interviews, the stages of their creative activity. For this purpose, 27 interviews with professional artists were analyzed using a double approach. First, a quantitative analysis of interviews and associated self-report questionna...
To further understand why a consumer’s choices are influenced by the aesthetic value of products (Hollins & Pugh, 1990; Bloch, 1995; Schmitt & Simonson, 1997), individual differences in design-driven consumer choices must be investigated. Previous empirical work suggests that the extent to which one pays attention and is responsive to the aesthetic...
Questions
Question (1)
Context : Performance test, dichotomous, one-dimensional (at least in theory), at least 3PL (variable pseudo-guessing). Theta is assumed normal. But I'm also interested in answers in general in IRT.
Problem : It seems to me that EFA factor loadings provide clear guidelines to rank/select a subset of items from a pool (with referenced rules of thumb, etc.) when one does not have any prior info/assumption of theta (aka for "all" test-takers).
On the other hand, IRT is, in my opinion, a much more accurate representation of the psychological situation that underlies test situations, but it seems to me that there are a variety (especially in IRT-3PL / 4PL) of parameters to take into account all at once to select items, at least without any prior estimation of theta.
So I'm wondering if you knew of any guidelines/packages that can be referenced as a clear basis (meaning, not eye-balling item response functions) for item selection there. At this stage I'm thinking of a very non-parsimonious solution, like generating all item subsets possible (I'd get a LOT of models, but why not) -> fit IRT model -> compute marginal reliability (and/or...Information, of why not CFI, RMSEA, etc.) for thetas ranging between -3SD and +3SD -> Rank the subsets by descending marginal reliability (but I'm afraid it would bias towards more items, so I'd have to weight per item count maybe).
Anyway, you get the idea. Any known referenced procedures/packages?