What we do
Research
Four connected directions. Explore each by its publications, its active projects, or both.
Psychometrics & Scale Development
Open-source instruments, from personality and psychological awareness to response accuracy, built and validated with IRT, CFA, and network analysis, and freely available to the research community.
Projects
Clinical Wellbeing Monitor (ProQOL)
ActiveA self-assessment dashboard for the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL), helping professionals track compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress over time.
Embedding-Enhanced Psychometrics
In developmentAn R pipeline that compares the latent structure of LLM text embeddings with human psychometric data using Exploratory Graph Analysis (EGA), using language models as a new lens on construct validity, factor structure, and scale design.
Participant Feedback & Survey Platform
ActiveA reusable Shiny platform for online surveys that give participants immediate, personalised feedback on their own results. Its most-used deployment, the Machiavellianism self-test (TDMS), has been completed by more than 40,000 participants who chose to share their data.
Automated Feedback Report Generator
ActiveAn R + Quarto pipeline that turns a study's raw questionnaire data into a bespoke, plain-language HTML (or PDF) feedback report for every participant, scoring the HEXACO-100, PVQ-21, and NISE against population norms so respondents get something meaningful back for taking part.
Response Accuracy & Validity Scales
ActiveDeveloping open-source tools to detect careless, inconsistent, and distorted responding in psychological research and assessment, including informant-report validity scales and brief, appendable inconsistency and under-reporting measures.
Psychometric Scale Development
ActiveBuilding and validating open-source psychological measures, from item generation through factor analysis (EFA/CFA), reliability, and construct validation, so researchers and clinicians have rigorous, freely available instruments.
Psychometric Scale Translation
In developmentUsing large language models to assist translating and culturally adapting psychometric scales across languages, making validated instruments more accessible to non-English-speaking researchers and clinicians.
Publications
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Journal of Health Psychology · 2026
A factor-analytic study disentangling intuitive, mindful, and maladaptive eating and their links to wellbeing.
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Journal of Personality Assessment · 2026
A shortened two-dimensional Machiavellianism scale, extended into political psychology.
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Environmental Psychology Research · 2026
The first validated Portuguese-language solastalgia measure, adapting the Brief Solastalgia Scale for Brazil.
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Assessment · 2025
Developing and validating the Expression Regulation Scale across three domains of emotional expression.
Meta-Science & Idiographic Methods
Open data, statistical-power practice, and person-specific (idiographic) measurement, reorienting psychological research toward within-person structure and reproducibility, not just group averages.
Projects
articLLMate
ActiveAn LLM-based auditing tool that reads a whole corpus of academic papers and audits how each one handles response-validity threats in self-report data, tested at a scale of nearly 50,000 articles.
Embedding-Enhanced Psychometrics
In developmentAn R pipeline that compares the latent structure of LLM text embeddings with human psychometric data using Exploratory Graph Analysis (EGA), using language models as a new lens on construct validity, factor structure, and scale design.
Idiographic & Within-Person Measurement
ActivePerson-specific measurement using ecological momentary assessment and intensive longitudinal designs, studying how distress and personality states fluctuate within individuals over time, and whether measures built on group averages hold at the individual level.
Publications
All 7-
Understanding and assessing personality across cultures: A scoping review
PLOS ONE · 2026
A scoping review of whether personality can be validly assessed across cultures.
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Bridging the implementation gap in dimensional personality models
BJPsych Advances · 2025
A commentary on translating dimensional personality models into usable clinical workflows.
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Journal of Open Psychology Data · 2023
An open dataset on statistics and mathematics anxiety from 12,570 students worldwide.
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Emotion · 2023
Testing whether distinct properties of everyday emotion each uniquely predict distress and wellbeing over time.
Dimensional Personality & Clinical
Dimensional models of personality and psychopathology (DSM-5 AMPD, ICD-11, HiTOP) and the clinical assessment tools that translate them into practice, centred on vulnerability, resilience, and closing the research-to-clinic gap.
Projects
Clinical Wellbeing Monitor (ProQOL)
ActiveA self-assessment dashboard for the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL), helping professionals track compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress over time.
Participant Feedback & Survey Platform
ActiveA reusable Shiny platform for online surveys that give participants immediate, personalised feedback on their own results. Its most-used deployment, the Machiavellianism self-test (TDMS), has been completed by more than 40,000 participants who chose to share their data.
Automated Feedback Report Generator
ActiveAn R + Quarto pipeline that turns a study's raw questionnaire data into a bespoke, plain-language HTML (or PDF) feedback report for every participant, scoring the HEXACO-100, PVQ-21, and NISE against population norms so respondents get something meaningful back for taking part.
Dimensional Models of Personality Diagnosis & Stigma
ActiveA long-running program on how personality pathology is diagnosed, comparing categorical and dimensional (DSM-5 AMPD, ICD-11, HiTOP) approaches and their downstream effects on stigma, clinical utility, and treatment, especially for borderline personality disorder.
Footprints: Digital Data Donation Study
In developmentA government-funded study of the relationship between personality and online behaviour, using consent-gated digital data donation rather than self-report alone.
Idiographic & Within-Person Measurement
ActivePerson-specific measurement using ecological momentary assessment and intensive longitudinal designs, studying how distress and personality states fluctuate within individuals over time, and whether measures built on group averages hold at the individual level.
Psychometric Scale Development
ActiveBuilding and validating open-source psychological measures, from item generation through factor analysis (EFA/CFA), reliability, and construct validation, so researchers and clinicians have rigorous, freely available instruments.
AI Personality Structure
In developmentAn emerging project applying large language models and embedding-based methods to study the structure of personality: how AI represents traits, and what that reveals about long-standing questions in personality science.
Publications
All 37-
British Journal of Clinical Psychology · 2026
A 12-month longitudinal study of how eating disorder symptoms and mental wellbeing predict one another in young women.
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Journal of Health Psychology · 2026
A factor-analytic study disentangling intuitive, mindful, and maladaptive eating and their links to wellbeing.
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Journal of Personality Assessment · 2026
A shortened two-dimensional Machiavellianism scale, extended into political psychology.
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Understanding and assessing personality across cultures: A scoping review
PLOS ONE · 2026
A scoping review of whether personality can be validly assessed across cultures.
Large Language Models in Psychological Science
Evidence-based, ethical use of large language models in psychological research and mental-health care, from auditing the research literature itself to modelling personality structure and understanding real-world behaviour. The newest of the lab's directions: still more active projects than publications.
Projects
articLLMate
ActiveAn LLM-based auditing tool that reads a whole corpus of academic papers and audits how each one handles response-validity threats in self-report data, tested at a scale of nearly 50,000 articles.
Embedding-Enhanced Psychometrics
In developmentAn R pipeline that compares the latent structure of LLM text embeddings with human psychometric data using Exploratory Graph Analysis (EGA), using language models as a new lens on construct validity, factor structure, and scale design.
Footprints: Digital Data Donation Study
In developmentA government-funded study of the relationship between personality and online behaviour, using consent-gated digital data donation rather than self-report alone.
AI Personality Structure
In developmentAn emerging project applying large language models and embedding-based methods to study the structure of personality: how AI represents traits, and what that reveals about long-standing questions in personality science.
Psychometric Scale Translation
In developmentUsing large language models to assist translating and culturally adapting psychometric scales across languages, making validated instruments more accessible to non-English-speaking researchers and clinicians.
AI Chatbots for Professional Training
In developmentA government-funded project developing AI chatbots to support professional training.