The application of single-item measures has the potential to help applied researchers
address conceptual, methodological, and empirical challenges. Based on a large-scale …

Quantitative explorations of behaviour, psyche and society are common in psychology. This
requires methods that justify the attribution of results to the measurands (the entities to be …

Objective Researchers conceptualize grit as the combination of two facets: perseverance of
effort and consistency of interests toward long‐term goals. We tested the reliability of grit …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently spreading in all
the areas of the world. This ongoing pandemic has clear impacts in terms of the relevance of …

The question of whether psychology can properly be regarded as a science has long been
debated (Smedslund in Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science, 50, 185–195 …

Psychometrics builds on the fundamental premise that psychological attributes are
unobservable and need to be inferred from observable behavior. Consequently …

Psychometrics has always been confronted with fundamental criticism, highlighting serious
insufficiencies and fallacies. Many fallacies persist, however, because each critic explores …

Established measurement practices have been criticized from various theoretical
perspectives. The purpose of this article is to argue that quantitative research could be more …

Researchers increasingly recognize that the mind and culture interact at many levels to
constitute our lived experience, yet we know relatively little about the extent to which culture …

There is a problem with applied social psychology research—what might be considered the
proverbial elephant-in-the-room—that it is the rare applied social psychology article, or set of …