Nils Myszkowski

Faculty Bio

Nils Myszkowski is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Pace University, NYC. He received his PhD from Université Paris Descartes, and his central research interest is the application and improvement of psychometric methods to measure and understand intellectual/emotional/creative/aesthetic abilities, especially as it applies to occupational contexts. He has authored over 45 peer-reviewed journal articles, is the creator and maintainer of 3 libraries for the statistical programming language R, and published Item Response Theory for Creativity Measurement (Cambridge University Press). In 2020, he received the Berlyne Award for Outstanding Contributions by an Early Career Scholar from the American Psychological Association (Division 10).

Awards and Honors

• American Psychological Association (Division 10), 2020, Berlyne Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Early Career Scholar

PhD, Université Paris Descartes (now Université de Paris), France, 2013
Psychology

Research Interest

Creativity-related traits and abilities (aesthetic sensitivity, divergent thinking, intelligence) ; Emotional/social competencies (empathy, social regulation, leadership, coping, stress, etc.) ; Quantitative methods (research design, statistics, psychometrics, etc.) ; Occupational contexts (Occupational health, managerial creativity, consumer behavior)

Grants, Sponsored Research and Contracts

Developing, Field-Testing, and Validating an Elementary Algebra Concept Inventory Database For Use In The College Context
Myszkowski, N. April 2024 - November 2025. National Science Foundation, Federal. Funded.

Past Courses

PSY 205: Stats in Psych & Allied Fields
PSY 296: Undrstndng a Globalized World
PSY 306: Psychological Testing
PSY 313: Research Methodology
PSY 327: Mentored Lab Class Semester 1
PSY 615: Research Design & Statistics I
PSY 616: Research Dsgn & Statistics II
PSY 621: Psychological Measurements
PSY 627: Mentored Lab Class Semester 1
PSY 628: Mentored Lab Class Semester 2
PSY 651: Undrstndng a Globalized World
PSY 682: Personnel Psychology
PSY 691: Practicum in Psychology
PSY 698: Professional Seminar
PSY 715: Statistics & Research Design I
PSY 716: Statistics & Research Desgn II
PSY 721: Tests and Measurements
PSY 803: Advanced Psychometrics
PSY 827: Advncd Statistics/Biostatistic
PSY 834: Doctoral Project Seminar

Publications

Depressive and Anxious Symptoms, Experimentally Manipulated Acute Social-Evaluative Threat, and Cortisol Reactivity
Strickland, M. G., Myszkowski, N., Hooker, E., Zoccola, P. & Dickerson, S. S. (2024). Psychosomatic Medicine. Vol 86 (Issue 8) https://doi.org/10.1097/psy.0000000000001336

Exploring the Elicitors of Happiness in India
Suchday, S., Singh, K., Pavri, R. & Myszkowski, N. (2024). Psychological Studies. Vol 69 (Issue 3) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-024-00797-z

Modeling sequential dependencies in progressive matrices: An auto-regressive item response theory (AR-IRT) approach.
Myszkowski, N. & Storme, M. (2024). Journal of Intelligence. Vol 12 (Issue 7) https://https: //doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence12010007

Unscrambling creativity measurement: An invitation to better formalize the domain generality-specificity of creativity with psychometric modeling.
Myszkowski, N., Storme, M. & Çelik, P. (2024). Learning and Individual Differences. Vol 109 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2023.102401

Item Response Theory for Creativity Measurement
Myszkowski, N. (2024). Item Response Theory for Creativity Measurement. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009239035

Can robots do therapy? Examining the efficacy of a CBT bot in comparison with other behavioral intervention technologies in alleviating mental health symptoms.
Eltahawy, L., Essig, T., Myszkowski, N. & Trub, L. R. (2023). Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans. Vol 2 (Issue 1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2023.100035

Can we “read” art... at all? A psychometric perspective on the possibility of measuring artwork attributes.
Myszkowski, N. (2023). Physics of Life Reviews. Vol 44 https://doi.org/10.1016/j. plrev.2022.11.010

Contemporary School Psychology
Rao, A., Myszkowski, N. & Arora, P. (2023). Contemporary School Psychology. Vol 28 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40688-023-00453-9

Creativity with six degrees of freedom: Feasibility study of visual creativity assessment in virtual reality.
Barbot, B., Kaufman, J. & Myszkowski, N. (2023). Creativity Research Journal. Vol 35 (Issue 4) https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2023.2193040

Individual differences in within-person variability in personality positively predict economic gains and satisfaction in negotiations.
Çelik, P., Storme, M. & Myszkowski, N. (2022). Group Decision and Negotiation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-022-09778-x

One common factor, four resources, both? Maybe neither: A network model of career adaptability resources.
Myszkowski, N. & Storme, M. (2022). Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development. Vol 56 (Issue 3) https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2022.2073894

Exploring the associations between personality and response speed trajectories in low-stakes intelligence tests
Myszkowski, N., Storme, M., Kubiak, E. & Baron, S. (2022). Personality and Individual Differences. Vol 191 (Issue 111580) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886922000848

Development of the R library “jrt”: Automated item response theory procedures for judgment data and their application with the consensual assessment technique
Myszkowski, N. (2021). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Vol 15 (Issue 3) , pages 426--438.

Accounting for Variable Task Discrimination in Divergent Thinking Fluency Measurement: An Example of the Benefits of a 2‐Parameter Poisson Counts Model and its Bifactor Extension Over the Rasch Poisson Counts Model
Myszkowski, N. & Storme, M. (2021). Journal of Creative Behavior. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jocb.490

A forgotten antecedent of career adaptability: A study on the predictive role of within-person variability in personality
Storme, M., Celik, P. & Myszkowski, N. (2020). Personality and Individual Differences. Vol 160 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886920301252
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A Mokken Scale Analysis of the Last Series of the Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM-LS)
Myszkowski, N. (2020). Journal of Intelligence. Vol 8 (Issue 2) , pages 22. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence8020022
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Commentary on Corradi et al.’s (2019) new conception of aesthetic sensitivity: Is the ability conception dead?
Myszkowski, N., Çelik, P. & Storme, M. (2020). British Journal of Psychology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjop.12440
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Creativity and unethicality: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Storme, M., Celik, P. & Myszkowski, N. (2020). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Using Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Measures in Museum Studies
Myszkowski, N. & Zenasni, F. (2020). Frontiers in Psychology. Vol 11 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00414/full
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Judge response theory? A call to upgrade our psychometrical account of creativity judgments.
Myszkowski, N. & Storme, M. (2019). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Vol 13 (Issue 2) , pages 167-175. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000225
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Professional Memberships

• Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts [Member]
• International Society for the Study of Individual Differences [Member]
• American Psychological Association

Professional Service

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts [Editorial Review Board Member]