We review a current and popular class of cognitive models called multinomial processing
tree (MPT) models. MPT models are simple, substantively motivated statistical models that …

People differ in their ability to perceive accurately the informal patterns of interpersonal
relationships in their social groups, ie, the group's network structure. Existing research …

Surveying Cultures uniquely employs techniques rooted in survey methodology to discover
cultural patterns in social science research. Examining both classical and emerging …

Cultural consensus theory is a statistical framework (CCT) for the study of individual
differences in the knowledge of culturally shared opinions. In this article, we demonstrate …

Psychological assessment often focuses on individual participants in testing situations.
Psychometric models for assessment include parameters for individual and item differences …

As developed by Romney et al.(1986), consensus analysis is both a theory and a method.
As a theory, it specifies the conditions under which agreement between people can be seen …

One's ability to accurately perceive the existence of informal social networks, referred to as
cognitive accuracy, has recently been shown to play an important role in explaining various …

The role that causality can play in social network analysis is unclear. The author provides a
broad characterization of social network analysis before considering the nature of causality …

Social network analysis can enrich school-based research on children's peer relationships.
Unfortunately, accurate network analysis requires near-complete data on all students and is …

Cultural Consensus Theory (CCT) is a model-based approach to aggregating the responses
of informants (respondents) to questions (items) about some domain of their shared cultural …