Abstract: The Short Dark Tetrad of Personality (SD4) is a self-report instrument for screening individuals with dark personality traits, including narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism. In the present study, we examined the ...
The Equivalence of Three German Vocabulary Tests and the German Version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (HAWIE-R)Summary: The validity and equivalence of three German vocabulary tests (HAWIE-R Vocabulary, WST, MWT-B) and of the HAWIE-R ...
High and Low Variations in Psychological Dimensions: Definition and Measurement with a Rasch ScaleSummary: Psychometric assessment do not concern about different extensions of distributions from different measurements because variability cannot be ...
Psychometric Effects of ColorAbstract: Evolving software-technologies enable test users to digitally modify test materials very easily. Under the aspect of quality control this leads to the important question of psychometric equivalence of original and ...
The two models of personality proposed by the Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS) and by the short-form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQR-S) both propose measures of extraversion-introversion, but in other respects the two models are quite ...
In order to explain observed variations in intelligence test scores, Spearman (1927) proposed the “law of diminishing returns” (SLODR). It states that the g saturation of cognitive ability tests decreases as a function of ability or age. Published studies ...
Using meta-analytic data, we investigated three attributes of personality scales – their readability, the average number of words per item, and whether adjectives or statements were used – to determine the effects that these qualities have on scale ...
Abstract. Varimax rotated principal component scores (VRPCS) have previously been offered as a possible solution to the non-orthogonality of scores for the Big Five factors. However, few researchers have examined the reliability and ...
Abstract. Previous research has supported the use of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) for online data collection in individual differences research. Although MTurk Masters have reached an elite status because of strong approval ratings on previous tasks (...
Abstract. Risk-taking is a long-standing area of inquiry among psychologists and economists. In this paper, we examine the personality profile of risk-takers in two independent samples. Specifically, we examined the association between the Big Five ...