Publications

• Seitz, T., & Ulitzsch, E. (in press). Faking in high-stakes personality assessments: A response-time-based latent response mixture modeling approach. Educational and Psychological Measurement.

• Alagöz, Ö. E. C., Meiser, T., & Khorramdel, L. (2025). Disentangling individual differences in cognitive response mechanisms for rating scale items: A flexible-mixture multidimensional IRTree approach. Behavior Research Methods, 57(256). doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02778-0
• Seitz, T., Alagöz, Ö. E. C., & Meiser, T. (2025). Disentangling qualitatively different faking strategies in high-stakes personality assessments: A mixture extension of the multidimensional nominal response model. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 85(6), 1237–1277. https://doi.org/10.1177/00131644251341843
• Seitz, T., Spengler, M., & Meiser, T. (2025). “What if applicants fake their responses?”: Modeling faking and response styles in high-stakes assessments using the multidimensional nominal response model. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 85(4), 747–782. https://doi.org/10.1177/00131644241307560
• Debelak, R., Meiser, T., & Gernand, A. (2025). Investigating heterogeneity in IRTree models for multiple response processes with score-based partitioning. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 78, 420–439. https://doi.org/10.1111/bmsp.12367
• Henninger, M., Plieninger, H., & Meiser, T. (2025). The effect of response formats on response style strength: An experimental comparison. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 41(1), 72–88. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000779

• Seitz, T., Wetzel, E., Hilbig, B. E., & Meiser, T. (2024). Using the multidimensional nominal response model to model faking in questionnaire data: The importance of item desirability characteristics. Behavior Research Methods, 56(8), 8869-8896. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02509-x
• Alagöz, Ö. E. C., & Meiser, T. (2024). Investigating heterogeneity in response strategies: A mixture multidimensional IRTree approach. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 84(5), 957–993. https://doi.org/10.1177/00131644231206765
• Hasselhorn, K., Ottenstein, C., Meiser, T., & Lischetzke, T. (2024). The effects of questionnaire length on the relative impact of response styles in ambulatory assessment. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 59(5), 1043-1057. https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2024.2354233
• Merhof, V., Böhm, C. M., & Meiser, T. (2024). Separation of traits and extreme response style in IRTree models: The role of mimicry effects for the meaningful interpretation of estimates. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 84(5), 927–956. https://doi.org/10.1177/00131644231213319
• Merhof, V., & Meiser, T. (2024). Co-occurring dominance and ideal point processes: A general IRTree framework for multidimensional item responding. Behavior Research Methods, 56(7), 7005-7025. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02405-4
• Petras, N., Dantlgraber, M., & Reips, U.-D. (2024). Illustrating psychometric tests, scales, and constructs: An R package for Item Pool Visualization. Behavior Research Methods, 56(2), 639–650. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-02052-7
• Petras, N., & Meiser, T. (2024). Problems of domain factors with small factor loadings in bi-factor models. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 59(1), 123–147. https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2023.2228757
• Reiber, F., & Ulrich, R. (2024). Exploring effects of age on conflict processing in the light of practice in a large-scale dataset. Experimental Aging Research, 50(4), 422–442. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2023.2214051
• Schreiner, M. R., Bröder, A., & Meiser, T. (2024). Agency effects on the binding of event elements in episodic memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(6), 1201-1220. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231203951
• Ulitzsch. E., Henniger M., & Meiser, T. (2024). Differences in response-scale usage are ubiquitous in cross-country comparisons and a potential driver of elusive relationships. Scientific Reports, 14, Artikel 10890. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60465-0

• Bott, F. M., & Meiser, T. (2023). Information sampling in contingency learning: Sampling strategies and their consequences for (pseudo-)contingency inferences. In K. Fiedler, P. Juslin & J. Denrell (Eds.), Sampling in judgment and decision making (pp. 245–265). Cambridge University Press.
• Frick, S. (2023). Estimating and using block information in the Thurstonian IRT model. Psychometrika, 88(4), 1556–1589. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-023-09931-8
• Henninger, M., & Meiser, T. (2023). Quality control: Response style modeling. In R. Tierney, F. Rizvi & K. Ercikan (Eds.), International encyclopedia of education (4th edition, pp. 331–340). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-818630-5.10041-7
• Meiser, T., & Reiber, F. (2023). Item-specific factors in IRTree models: When they matter and when they don’t [Commentary on Lyu, Bolt & Westby (2023)]. Psychometrika, 88(3), 739–744. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-023-09916-7
• Merhof, V., & Meiser, T. (2023). Dynamic response strategies: Accounting for response process heterogeneity in IRTree decision nodes. Psychometrika, 88(4), 1354-1380. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-023-09901-0
• Schreiner, M., & Hütter, M. (2023). The influence of social status on memory: No evidence for effects of social status on event element binding. Social Cognition, 41(5), 447–466. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2023.41.5.447
• Schreiner, M., & Meiser, T. (2023). Measuring binding effects in event-based episodic representations. Behavior Research Methods, 55(3), 981–996. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01769-1
• Schreiner, M., Meiser, T., & Bröder, A. (2023). The binding structure of event elements in episodic memory and the role of animacy. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(4), 705–730. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221096148
• Schreiner, M. R., Mercier, B., Frick, S., Wiwad, D., Schmitt, M. C., Kelly, J. M., & Pütter, J. Q. (2023). Measurement issues in the many analysts religion project. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13(3), 339–341. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070260

Frick, S. (2022). Modeling faking in the multidimensional forced-choice format: The faking mixture model. Psychometrika, 87(2), 773–794. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-021-09818-6

• Bott, F. M., Kellen, D., & Klauer, K. C. (2021). Normative accounts of illusory correlations. Psychological Review, 128(5), 856–878. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000273
• Frick, S., Brown, A., & Wetzel, E. (2023). Investigating the normativity of trait estimates from multidimensional forced-choice data. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 58(1), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2021.1938960
• Henninger, M., & Plieninger, H. (2021). Different styles, different times: How response times can inform our knowledge about the response process in rating scale measurement. Assessment, 28(5), 1301-1319. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191119900003
• Plieninger, H. (2021). Developing and applying IR-Tree models: Guidelines, caveats, and an extension to multiple groups. Organizational Research Methods, 24(3), 654–670. https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428120911096

• Bott, F. M., Heck, D. W., Meiser, T. (2020). Parameter validation in hierarchical MPT models by functional dissociation with continuous covariates: An application to contingency inference. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 98, Artikel 102388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2020.102388
• Bott, F. M., & Meiser, T. (2020). Pseudocontingency inference and choice: The role of information sampling. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(9), 1624-1644. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000840
• Henninger, M., & Meiser, T. (2020a). Different approaches to modeling response styles in divide-by-total item response theory models (Part I): A model integration. Psychological Methods, 25(5), 560–576. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000249
• Henninger, M., & Meiser, T. (2020b). Different approaches to modeling response styles in divide-by-total item response theory models (Part II): Applications and novel extensions. Psychological Methods, 25(5), 577–595. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000268
• Meiser, T. (2020). Illusorische Korrelationen. In L.-E. Petersen & B. Six (Hrsg.), Stereotype, Vorurteile und soziale Diskriminierung (2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, S. 54–62). Weinheim: Beltz.

• Arnold, N. R., Heck, D. W., Bröder, A., Meiser, T., & Boywitt, C. D. (2019). Testing hypotheses about binding in context memory with a hierarchical multinomial modeling approach: A preregistered study. Experimental Psychology, 66(3), 239–251. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000442
• Meiser, T., Plieninger, H., & Henninger, M. (2019). IRTree models with ordinal and multidimensional decision nodes for response styles and trait-based rating responses. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 72(3), 501–516. https://doi.org/10.1111/bmsp.12158