Publications

Publications

A selection of peer-reviewed work from approximately the last five years. Titles link to the publisher or DOI. For the complete, always-current list of publications, see Dr. Tay’s Google Scholar profile. Use the filters below to browse by year or topic.

Year
Topic

Comparing behavioral cues of self- versus other-assessed authenticity using automated video interviews

Liou, G., & Tay, L. (2026). Scientific Reports.

2026 · Artificial intelligence · Big data and data science · Measurement and methodology

Understanding critical thinking in generative artificial intelligence use: Development, validation, and correlates of the critical thinking in AI use scale

Lau, G., Low, W. Y., Tay, L., Guevarra, Y. A., Gašević, D., & Hartanto, A. (2026). Computers in Human Behavior Reports.

2026 · Artificial intelligence · Construct validation · Measurement and methodology

Aligning Artificial Intelligence with Worker Health, Well-Being, and Safety: An Occupational Health Psychology Agenda

Probst, T. M., Shoss, M. K., Bankins, S., Behrend, T. S., Dragano, N., Jetha, A., … & Vietas, J. (incl. Tay, L.) (2026). Occupational Health Science.

2026 · Artificial intelligence · Well-being

Selecting Employees Who Protect and Promote the Well‐Being of Others: Commentary on König et al. (2026)

Liou, G., & Tay, L. (2026). International Journal of Selection and Assessment.

2026 · Well-being · Selection and assessment

The paths to interests: Motivation profiles in interest development

Hou, D. X., Grau, L., Schmiege, S. J., Cooper, M., & Tay, L. (2025). Journal of Vocational Behavior.

2025 · Vocational interests · Measurement and methodology

Quantitative advances in the study of emotion regulation at work

Gabriel, A. S., Thapa, S., Dutli, A., & Tay, L. (2025). Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks.

2025 · Measurement and methodology · Well-being

Beliefs about seeking and receiving help: a mixed-methods analysis

Scotney, V. S., & Tay, L. (2025). The Journal of Positive Psychology.

2025 · Well-being · Construct validation

Inspired by the positive humanities: a psychologist’s take

Tay, L. (2025). The Journal of Positive Psychology.

2025 · Well-being

College Student Well-Being: Explaining Academic and Behavioral Outcomes from a Representative College Student Sample

Zhou, S., Weiss, H. A., McCuskey, B., & Tay, L. (2025). Journal of Happiness Studies.

2025 · Well-being · Measurement and methodology · Education

Happy Work, Happy Life? A Replication and Comparison of the Longitudinal Effects Between Job and Life Satisfaction Using Continuous Time Meta‐Analysis

Wiese, C. W., Dormann, C., Vaziri, H., Tay, L., Wille, B., Chen, J., Moran, L. H., & Li, Y. (2025). Journal of Organizational Behavior.

2025 · Well-being · Measurement and methodology

A comparison of the response-pattern-based faking detection methods.

Nie, W., Hernandez, I., Tay, L., Zhang, B., & Cao, M. (2025). Journal of Applied Psychology.

2025 · Measurement and methodology · Item response theory · Selection and assessment

VALID: A Checklist-Based Approach for Improving Validity in Psychological Research

Kerschbaumer, S., Voracek, M., Aczél, B., Anderson, S. F., Booth, B. M., Buchanan, E. M., … & Tran, U. S. (incl. Tay, L.) (2025). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

2025 · Measurement and methodology · Construct validation

Whither bias goes, I will go: An integrative, systematic review of algorithmic bias mitigation.

Hickman, L., Huynh, C., Gass, J., Booth, B. M., Kuruzovich, J., & Tay, L. (2024). Journal of Applied Psychology.

2024 · Artificial intelligence · Big data and data science · Selection and assessment

Automated speech recognition bias in personnel selection: The case of automatically scored job interviews.

Hickman, L., Langer, M., Saef, R., & Tay, L. (2024). Journal of Applied Psychology.

2024 · Artificial intelligence · Big data and data science · Selection and assessment

Exploring a Language-Based Interest Assessment: Predicting Vocational Interests on Social Media Using Natural Language Processing

Du, Y. Y. L., Jain, D., Cho, Y., Hou, D. X., Guntuku, S. C., Ungar, L., & Tay, L. (2024). Journal of Career Assessment.

2024 · Artificial intelligence · Big data and data science · Vocational interests

Are automated video interviews smart enough? Behavioral modes, reliability, validity, and bias of machine learning cognitive ability assessments.

Hickman, L., Tay, L., & Woo, S. E. (2024). Journal of Applied Psychology.

2024 · Artificial intelligence · Big data and data science · Selection and assessment

One Size Does Not Fit All: Unraveling Item Response Process Heterogeneity Using the Mixture Dominance-Unfolding Model (MixDUM)

Zhang, B., Chalmers, R. P., Li, L., Sun, T., & Tay, L. (2024). Organizational Research Methods.

2024 · Item response theory · Measurement and methodology

Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Accounting for Unfolding Item Response Process and Response Styles Using Unfolding Item Response Tree Models

Li, Z., Li, L., Zhang, B., Cao, M., & Tay, L. (2024). Multivariate Behavioral Research.

2024 · Item response theory · Measurement and methodology

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data: Improvements to the science of people at work and applications to practice

Woo, S. E., Tay, L., & Oswald, F. L. (2024). Personnel Psychology.

2024 · Artificial intelligence · Big data and data science

Happiness in India

Biswas‐Diener, R., Tay, L., Bhatnagar, T., & Diener, E. (2024). Science across cultures.

2024 · Well-being

A cross-cultural examination of temporal orientation through everyday language on social media

Hou, X. D., Guntuku, S. C., Cho, Y.-M., Sherman, G., Zhang, T., Li, M., Ungar, L., & Tay, L. (2024). PLoS ONE, 19(3).

2024 · Big data and data science

Measuring SETPOINT vocational interest dimensions: The development and validation of three short scales

Hou, X. D., Su, R., & Tay, L. (2024). Journal of Vocational Behavior, 149.

2024 · Measurement and methodology

Personally significant forms of discrete experiences and recurring activities in the arts and humanities in a representative sample of U.S. residents

Crone, D. L., Shim, Y., Cotter, K. N., Tay, L., & Pawelski, J. O. (2024). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

2024 · Well-being

The impact of changing engineering perceptions on women's attitudes and behavioral intentions towards engineering pursuits

Batz-Barbarich, C., Strah, N., & Tay, L. (2024). International Journal of STEM Education, 11(23).

2024 · Well-being

Beyond the Conventional View of Bipolarity: Methodological Considerations for Examining the Relationship Between Well-being and Ill-being

Zhao, M. Y., & Tay, L. (2024). The Journal of Positive Psychology.

2024 · Measurement and methodology · Well-being · Taxonomy · Item response theory

Person-Centered Modeling: Techniques for Studying Associations Between People Rather Than Variables

Woo, S. E., Hofmans, J., Wille, B., & Tay, L. (2024). Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.

2024 · Measurement and methodology

Character Traits Predict Health and Well-Being beyond Personality

Wilson, D., Ng, V., Foster, J., & Tay, L. (2024). Journal of Personality Assessment.

2024 · Well-being · Construct validation

General gratitude and gratitude to God: associations with personality and well-being

Newman, D. B., Nezlek, J. B., & Tay, L. (2024). The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1-9.

2024 · Well-being

Well-being: The Ultimate Criterion for Organizational Sciences

Tay, L., Batz-Barbarich, C., Yang, L. Q., et al. (2023). Journal of Business and Psychology.

2023 · Measurement and methodology · Construct validation · Well-being

Conceptualizing "Positive Attributes" Across Psychological Perspectives

Wilson, D., Ng, V., Alonso, N., Jeffrey, A., & Tay, L. (2023). Journal of Personality, 00, 1-14.

2023 · Measurement and methodology · Construct validation

Why Life Outcomes are Hard to Predict

Liou, G., Bailey, D. H., Baldwin, C. R., Duckworth, A. L., & Tay, L. (2023). PsyArXiv preprint.

2023 · Measurement and methodology · Construct validation

Perspectives on Help-Receiving in the Workplace: Review and Recommendations

Scotney, V. S., Bonner, C. V., & Tay, L. (2023). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management.

2023 · Measurement and methodology · Construct validation

On the Accuracy, Media Representation, and Public Perception of Psychological Scientists' Judgments of Societal Change

Hutcherson, C. A., Sharpinskyi, K., Varnum, M. E., Rotella, A., Wormley, A. S., Tay, L., & Grossmann, I. (2023). American Psychologist.

2023 · Measurement and methodology

Development and validation of the Mechanisms of Engagement in the Arts and Humanities scales

Thapa, S., Vaziri, H., Shim, Y., Tay, L., & Pawelski, J. O. (2023). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

2023 · Construct validation · Measurement and methodology · Taxonomy

Automatic scoring of speeded interpersonal assessment center exercises via machine learning: Initial psychometric evidence and practical guidelines

Hickman, L., Herde, C. N., Lievens, F., & Tay, L. (2023). International Journal of Selection and Assessment.

2023 · Big data and data science · Measurement and methodology · Item response theory · Artificial intelligence

A Review on Health and Well-Being at Work: More than Stressors and Strains

Sonnentag, S., Tay, L., & Nesher Shoshan, H. (2023). Personnel Psychology.

2023 · Well-being

Rejoinder to Commentaries on Woo et al. (2022)

Woo, S. E., Keith, M. G., Tay, L., & LeBreton, J. M. (2023). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(1), 61-66.

2023 · Measurement and methodology

Structural Equation Modeling in Organizational Research: The State of Our Science and Some Proposals for Its Future

Zyphur, M. J., Bonner, C. V., & Tay, L. (2023). Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 10, 495-517.

2023 · Measurement and methodology

A Meta-Analysis of Religion/Spirituality and Life Satisfaction

Yaden, D. B., Batz-Barbarich, C. L., Ng, V., Vaziri, H., Gladstone, J. N., Pawelski, J. O., & Tay, L. (2022). Journal of Happiness Studies, 1-17.

2022 · Well-being · Big data and data science

Head versus heart: social media reveals differential language of loneliness from depression

Liu, T., Ungar, L. H., Curtis, B., Sherman, G., Yadeta, K., Tay, L., Eichstaedt, J. C., & Guntuku, S. C. (2022). npj Mental Health Research, 1(1), 1-8.

2022 · Well-being · Big data and data science

The baby and the bathwater: On the need for substantive–methodological synergy in organizational research

Hofmans, J., Morin, A. J. S., Breitsohl, H., Ceulemans, E., Chénard‐Poirier, L. A., Driver, C., … & Wille, B. (incl. Tay, L.) (2021). Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

2021 · Measurement and methodology

Integrating Psychometrics and Computing Perspectives on Bias and Fairness in Affective Computing: A case study of automated video interviews

Booth, B. M., Hickman, L., Subburaj, S. K., Tay, L., Woo, S. E., & D’Mello, S. K. (2021). IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

2021 · Selection and assessment · Measurement and methodology

Building Community Well-Being in Higher Education: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Tay, L. (2021). International Journal of Community Well-Being.

2021 · Well-being · Education

Experience Sampling Methodology: Conceptual and Technological Advances for Understanding and Assessing Variability in Well-being Research

Thapa, S., Tay, L., & Hou, D. (2021). Research in occupational stress and well being.

2021 · Well-being · Measurement and methodology

Arts and Humanities Interventions for Flourishing in Healthy Adults: A Mixed Studies Systematic Review

Shim, Y., Jebb, A. T., Tay, L., & Pawelski, J. O. (2021). Review of General Psychology.

2021 · Well-being

Automated video interview personality assessments: Reliability, validity, and generalizability investigations.

Hickman, L., Bosch, N., Ng, V., Saef, R., Tay, L., & Woo, S. E. (2021). Journal of Applied Psychology.

2021 · Selection and assessment · Measurement and methodology

Developing and evaluating language‐based machine learning algorithms for inferring applicant personality in video interviews

Hickman, L., Saef, R., Ng, V., Woo, S. E., Tay, L., & Bosch, N. (2021). Human Resource Management Journal.

2021 · Selection and assessment · Artificial intelligence · Big data and data science · Education

A Review of Key Likert Scale Development Advances: 1995–2019

Jebb, A. T., Ng, V., & Tay, L. (2021). Frontiers in Psychology.

2021 · Measurement and methodology

Conducting mobile-enabled ecological momentary intervention research in positive psychology: key considerations and recommended practices

Shim, Y., Scotney, V. S., & Tay, L. (2021). The Journal of Positive Psychology.

2021 · Measurement and methodology

From Data to Causes III: Bayesian Priors for General Cross-Lagged Panel Models (GCLM)

Zyphur, M. J., Hamaker, E. L., Tay, L., Voelkle, M. C., Preacher, K. J., Zhang, Z., … & Diener, E. (2021). Frontiers in Psychology.

2021 · Measurement and methodology

Life Satisfaction and Subsequent Physical, Behavioral, and Psychosocial Health in Older Adults

Kim, E. S., Delaney, S., Tay, L., Chen, Y., Diener, E., & VanderWeele, T. J. (2021). Milbank Quarterly.

2021 · Well-being

Text Preprocessing for Text Mining in Organizational Research: Review and Recommendations

Hickman, L., Thapa, S., Tay, L., Cao, M., & Srinivasan, P. (2020). Organizational Research Methods.

2020 · Measurement and methodology

The Science and Practice of Item Response Theory in Organizations

Lang, J. W. B., & Tay, L. (2020). Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.

2020 · Item response theory

The impact of the Syrian conflict on population well-being

Cheung, F., Kube, A., Tay, L., Diener, E., Jackson, J. J., Lucas, R. E., Ni, M. Y., & Leung, G. (2020). Nature Communications.

2020 · Well-being

Psychometric and Validity Issues in Machine Learning Approaches to Personality Assessment: A Focus on Social Media Text Mining

Tay, L., Woo, S. E., Hickman, L., & Saef, R. (2020). European Journal of Personality.

2020 · Artificial intelligence · Big data and data science · Measurement and methodology · Education

Personality Affect Construal Theory

Thapa, S., Beck, E. D., & Tay, L. (2020). Cambridge University Press eBooks.

2020 · Measurement and methodology

Brief well-being assessments, or nothing at all?

VanderWeele, T. J., Trudel‐Fitzgerald, C., Allin, P., Farrelly, C., Fletcher, G., Frederick, D. E., … & Kubzansky, L. D. (incl. Tay, L.) (2020). Preventive Medicine.

2020 · Well-being

The Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Forced-Choice Format Character Measure: Testing the Thurstonian IRT Approach

Ng, V., Lee, P., Ho, M. R., Kuykendall, L., Stark, S., & Tay, L. (2020). Journal of Personality Assessment.

2020 · Item response theory · Measurement and methodology · Construct validation · Taxonomy

An identity-based integrative needs model of crafting: Crafting within and across life domains.

Bloom, J. D., Vaziri, H., Tay, L., & Kujanpää, M. (2020). Journal of Applied Psychology.

2020 · Measurement and methodology

Do differences between individuals who are healthy weight or overweight on self-report measures of disinhibited eating and restrained eating reflect reality or item “bias”?

Forbush, K. T., Song, Q. C., Tay, L., Gould, S. R., Chapa, D. A. N., Cushing, C. C., & Ptomey, L. T. (2020). Psychological Assessment.

2020 · Measurement and methodology

Subjective Well-Being Around the World: Trends and Predictors Across the Life Span

Jebb, A. T., Morrison, M., Tay, L., & Diener, E. (2020). Psychological Science.

2020 · Well-being

Current recommendations on the selection of measures for well-being

VanderWeele, T. J., Trudel‐Fitzgerald, C., Allin, P., Farrelly, C., Fletcher, G., Frederick, D. E., … & Kubzansky, L. D. (incl. Tay, L.) (2020). Preventive Medicine.

2020 · Well-being · Selection and assessment · Measurement and methodology

The manipulation of affect: A meta-analysis of affect induction procedures.

Joseph, D. L., Chan, M. Y., Heintzelman, S. J., Tay, L., Diener, E., & Scotney, V. S. (2020). Psychological Bulletin.

2020 · Measurement and methodology

Lost in Translation: The Construct Representation of Character Virtues

Ng, V., & Tay, L. (2020). Perspectives on Psychological Science.

2020 · Measurement and methodology · Construct validation

Comparing attitudinal learning of large enrolment active learning and lecture classes

Watson, W. R., Watson, S. L., Magar, S. T., & Tay, L. (2020). Innovations in Education and Teaching International.

2020 · Education

Big data for enhancing measurement quality.

Woo, S. E., Tay, L., Jebb, A. T., Ford, M. T., & Kern, M. L. (2020). American Psychological Association eBooks.

2020 · Big data and data science · Measurement and methodology

The Effect of Employee Proactive Personality and Felt Responsibility on Individual Corporate Social Responsibility Behaviors: The CSR Context Matters

Mallory, D. B., Rupp, D. E., Pandey, N., & Tay, L. (2020). Journal of Sustainability Research.

2020 · Well-being