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Articles Meiser, T., Plieninger, H., & Henninger, M. (2019). IRTree models with ordinal and multidimensional decision nodes for response styles and trait-based rating responses. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/bmsp.12158 Plieninger, H., & Heck, D. W. (2018). A new model for acquiescence at the interface of psychometrics and cognitive psychology. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 53, 633–654. doi:10.1080/00273171.2018.1469966 [pdf] Plieninger, H. (2017). Mountain or molehill? A simulation study on the impact of response styles. [Read More]

About My name is Hansjörg Plieninger, I am a postdoctoral researcher in the psychology department at the University of Mannheim, Germany. I love data science and I love R. From an academic perspective, I am an expert in psychometrics, item response theory, structural equation modeling, and multilevel modeling; more specifically, I use this machinery to investigate response styles (e.g., tendency to give extreme responses). From a data-science perspective, I am an expert in dealing with survey data, Likert-type data and the like. [Read More]