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Bo Zhang

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Contact Information

Psychology Building, Room 219C
Assistant Professor

Research Interests

Personnel selection (e.g., applicant faking, forced-choice measurement)

Personality (e.g., personality assessment, relationships of Big 5 with stress, health, and workplace outcomes)

Research methods (e.g., IRT, SEM, bifactor models, longitudinal analysis)

 

Education

PhD, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2020

MS, Applied Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2020

MS, Psychological Measurement, Beijing Normal University, 2015

BS, Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 2012

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Assistant Professor, Psychology

Recent Publications

Li, J., Li, Y. M., Xing, Y.-X., Zhang, B., Tang, Y., & Drasgow, F. (2025). Development and Validation of a Game-Based Assessment for Complex Problem Solving. Journal of Intelligence, 13(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence13010009

Chen, L., Zhang, B., & Li, J. (2024). Social, Emotional, and Behavioral (SEB) Skills in the Workplace. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1), Article 120531. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.120531

Choi, J., Kwon, S., & Zhang, B. (Accepted/In press). A Structural After Measurement Approach to Bifactor Predictive Models. Structural Equation Modeling. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2385951

Kwon, S., Zhang, S., Köhn, H. F., & Zhang, B. (2024). MCMC stopping rules in latent variable modelling. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 78(1), 225-257. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/bmsp.12357

Li, Z., Li, L., Zhang, B., Cao, M., & Tay, L. (Accepted/In press). Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Accounting for Unfolding Item Response Process and Response Styles Using Unfolding Item Response Tree Models. Multivariate Behavioral Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2024.2394607

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