Contact Information
Research Areas
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
Awards and Honors
Sage Publications/RMD/Lawrence R. James Early Career Achievement Award, Academy of Management, 2025
APS Rising Star, Association for Psychological Science, 2025
UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Students (FA 2022, FA 2024, SP 2025)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Associate Professor, Psychology
External Links
Recent Publications
Mu, W., Zhang, B., Kishimoto, T., Fan, K., He, Z., & Berenbaum, H. (2026). What is common may be as important as what is different: Examining the general factor shared by dispositional shame and guilt using bi-factor models. European Journal of Personality, 40(2), 309-330. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251347815
Zhu, Z., Kuykendall, L., Baines, J. I., & Zhang, B. (2026). Clarifying the Construct of Supervisor Support for Recovery and Its Impact on Employee Recovery Experiences. Journal of Management, 52(3), 1173-1216. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241311228
Choi, J., Kwon, S., & Zhang, B. (2025). A Structural After Measurement Approach to Bifactor Predictive Models. Structural Equation Modeling, 32(2), 173-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2024.2385951
Choi, J., Kim, N., Zhang, B., Park, S. W., Cho, S., Sohn, Y. W., Soto, C. J., & John, O. P. (2025). The Big Five Inventory-2 in Korea: Validation and Cross-Cultural Comparisons with the U.S. and Chinese Versions. Assessment, Article 10731911251357466. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911251357466
Kwon, S., Zhang, S., Köhn, H. F., & Zhang, B. (2025). MCMC stopping rules in latent variable modelling. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 78(1), 225-257. https://doi.org/10.1111/bmsp.12357