Personality Resources

Misc Links

• MBTI Item Parameters. 3PL IRT item parameter estimates computed using BILOG from the N = 2,499 Harvey, Murry, & Markham (1994) study of the 94-item MBTI item pool. (ASCII format, 6K)

Research Reports

Listed below are some of the research papers we have produced over the past few years. If you're looking for copies of other papers we have presented that are not listed, contact me and I'll try to get you what you need. If you have problems opening these files, get an updated version of Adobe's Acrobat reader.

• McMahon & Harvey (2005). Psychometric Properties of the Reidenbach-Robin (1990) Multidimensional Ethics Scale (MES). Presented at the 2005 SIOP conference.
  
• Wagner & Harvey (2005). CAT Item Exposure Control for the Wagner Assessment Test (WAT). Presented at the 2005 SIOP conference.
  
• Wagner & Harvey (2003). Developing a new critical thinking test using item response theory. Paper presented at the 2003 SIOP conference.
  
• Brown & Harvey (2003). Detecting Personality Test Faking with Appropriateness Measurement: Fact or Fantasy? Paper presented at the 2003 SIOP conference.
  
• Trippe & Harvey (2003). Item response theory analysis of the IPIP Big-Five scales. Paper presented at the 2003 SIOP conference.
  
• Bess, Harvey, & Swartz (2003). Hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Paper presented at the SIOP conference.
  
• Bess & Harvey (2001). Bimodal Score Distributions and the MBTI: Fact or Artifact? Paper presented at the 2001 SIOP conference. Was subsequently published in Journal of Personality Assessment (2002).
  
• Burnkrant & Harvey (2000). Establishing Baserates for the Z3 and F2 Appropriateness Indices for Use with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Paper presented at SIOP 2000.
  
• Harvey & Hammer (1998). Item Response Theory. Preprint of paper in The Counseling Psychologist.
  
• Harvey, Murry, Markham (1995). A "Big Five" Scoring System for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Paper presented at the 1995 (May) Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orlando
  
• Harvey & Thomas (1996). Using item response theory to score the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator: Rationale and research findings. From Journal of Psychological Type.