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https://apnews.com/article/texas-texas-academic-programs I hope my feelings about censorship, racism, sexism, and the destruction of my institution by politicians is clear- the impacts on my students, their education, and the clients we serve is clear (hint: its mostly veterans and military personnel, fathers, dads, and men trying to live their best lives). Lets help people, not hurtContinue reading “Freedom of Speech at TTU”

Below are some of the recent papers I’ve been on, many of them still in press at this time. I’m missing a few PDFs I’ve become aware in making this page, so I will update it. There are a number of older papers from 2025 publication that are not included here for brevity and time.Continue reading “Selected Publication Update”

I’m going to make a longer post with a table that includes recent publications, shoutouts to student coauthors, and the theoretical implication for each of these papers – organized across domains of thought that I think are important to advancing personality science. I’ve used this blog a few times now as a way to notetakeContinue reading “Post-Empiricism as the Anti-Fragile Assessment Psychology”

We must move beyond traditional statistical and research-based approaches to focus on item experience—the process by which individuals attend to, interpret, abstract, and respond to the constituent elements of a test item. Each of these elements—wording, implied time frame, reference class, emotional salience, response format, and contextual assumptions—contributes to an item-level environment that shapes howContinue reading “methods thoughts”

I’ll be posting an update soon with a number of papers and such from the last year, along with links to those PDFs and a brief discussion of what I found in each and how I think about it. I wanted to make a few notes about SVTs and symptom validity testing here, and howContinue reading “Symptom Validity”

I’ve been thinking a lot about behavioral modeling, particularly as it relates to validation of non concurrent prediction. In psychological reorganization (beh change), within-person variability is likely to increase, particularly when constraints are loosening (eg social or environment expectations and personal rules/strategies) and alternative (competing?) response strategies are active, dynamic and conditional indicators emerges. AsContinue reading “modeling and measurement”

Over the last year, I’ve been working with HDFS Faculty Dr. Jackson in collaboration with The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA) to strengthen Lubbock’s First Friday Art Trail. This project started during my time in the provost’s office working on outreach and engagement, with my primary role being to generate societal impactContinue reading “Art Trail”

I wanted to provide an update on several exciting projects. There are a ton of excellent ongoing projects that will be included in future updates, but here is a summary of some recent papers. Recently Published In order to provide more regular future updates, Tina is going to be helping me! 🙂

In my view, many of the most important and most interesting questions we have about symptom validity remains either unanswered, or rarely explored. The purpose of this paper is to outline some patterns I have observed, and to describe what I believe are critical steps for the future of the field – and for theContinue reading “Symptom Validity: Some observations and Comments about Over-Reporting”

So many things, so so many things (hopefully I didn’t miss too many big things) Our paper on the MMPI-2-RF/3 Scale of Scales (SOS) development is out in JCEN (in press now, as of today), producing a scale that uses a symptom severity approach via the RC scales for broad and effective over-reporting detection. TheContinue reading “Updates (some of the many)”