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
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations
Assistant Professor, Psychology
External Links
Recent Publications
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
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
Li, L., Zhang, B., Sun, T., & Drasgow, F. (2025). The More Contextualized, the More Valid: Effects of Contextualization Strategies on Forced-choice Measurement. Journal of Business and Psychology, 40(3), 711-729. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-024-09983-2
Li, M., Zhang, B., & Mou, Y. (2025). Though Forced, Still Valid: Examining the Psychometric Performance of Forced-Choice Measurement of Personality in Children and Adolescents. Assessment, 32(4), 521-543. https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911241255841
Nie, W., Hernandez, I., Tay, L., Zhang, B., & Cao, M. (2025). A Comparison of the Response-Pattern-Based Faking Detection Methods. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0001261