School of Medicine & Psychology · Australian National University
Precision: Advanced Psychometrics & Assessment Lab
Our work spans four streams: clinical psychology, psychometric tools, meta- and open science, and AI. Based at the Australian National University, we build open, validated assessment instruments and test how well our measures, and newer AI methods, capture the constructs they target.
Research areas
Psychometrics & Scale Development
Robust, validated, open-source assessment tools built with IRT, CFA, and network analysis.
Dimensional Personality & Clinical
Dimensional models of personality and psychopathology, translated into clinical assessment tools.
LLMs in Psychological Science
Evidence-based, ethical use of large language models in psychological research and mental-health care.
Meta-Science & Idiographic Methods
Open data, statistical-power practice, and person-specific measurement.
Recent work
Understanding and assessing personality across cultures: A scoping review
A scoping review of whether personality can be validly assessed across cultures.
Sheppard H, Bizumic B, Christensen B, Monaghan C · 2026
Bridging the implementation gap in dimensional personality models
A commentary on translating dimensional personality models into usable clinical workflows.
Monaghan C · 2025
Dimensional models of personality disorders: Challenges and opportunities
A review of dimensional models of personality disorders: their evidence, challenges, and clinical promise.
Monaghan C, Bizumic B · 2023
Do emotion intensity, variability, differentiation, co-occurrence, and positive–negative ratios make unique contributions to predicting longitudinal change in psychological distress and well-being?
Testing whether distinct properties of everyday emotion each uniquely predict distress and wellbeing over time.
Dawel A, Gulliver A, Farrer LM, Kalokerinos EK, Cherbuin N, Calear AL, McCallum S, Morse AR, Monaghan C · 2023
Life in the lab
Science is a team sport. Beyond the bench, we celebrate milestones, travel to conferences, and get out together.
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