Psychology is complex. Your models should be too.

Constructs Complex Models

Network psychometrics reconceives psychological constructs as complex and dynamic systems emerging from interactions between variables

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Our Mission

Build a psychometrics that matches the complexity of psychology – moving from variables as mirrors of latent causes to actors in dynamic, interacting systems.

01

Reconceiving
Constructs

Model personality and psychopathology constructs as complex, dynamic systems that emerge from interactions between variables – not passive reflections of hidden latent causes.

02

Building
Rigorous Methods

Develop and validate network-based approaches to estimation, dimensionality, item selection, and construct validity – grounded in statistical theory and stress-tested via large-scale Monte Carlo simulation.

03

Distributing
Open Software

Translate methods into freely available R software packages – enabling researchers everywhere to apply state-of-the-art network psychometric techniques to their own data.

Methods

Our toolkit spans dimensionality assessment, structural modeling, and generative AI — all grounded in the mathematics of networks and validated through large-scale simulation.

Dimensionality
Exploratory Graph Analysis

A network-based framework for estimating the number of dimensions in multivariate psychological data, using community detection on regularized partial correlation networks.

Stability
Bootstrap EGA

A resampling framework that evaluates the structural stability and generalizability of EGA-estimated dimensions, quantifying confidence in the number and content of communities.

Selection
Network Loadings

Loading analogs derived directly from network topology, offering insights into how much nodes contribute to the emergence of coherent dimension.

Fit
Total Entropy Fit Index

An information-theoretic fit index evaluating how well a proposed dimensional structure accounts for the number and content of dimensions in the observed data, applicable across SEM, factor, and network frameworks.

Longitudinal
Dynamic EGA

An extension of EGA to time-series and intensive longitudinal data, recovering idiographic psychological structures that evolve dynamically within individual people over time.

AI
Generative Psychometrics

Leveraging large language model embeddings and network psychomerics to automatically generate, evaluate, and validate psychological scale items at scale.