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 50 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

Creativity and Critical Thinking in the Age of AI: A Cross-Cultural Study of Education in the 21st Century
Park, J., Myszkowski, N. & Niu, W. 2026. American Psychological Association (Division 10), Other. Funded.

Conducting psychometric and statistical analyses for NSF grant
Myszkowski, N. 2024 - 2025. City University of New York, Local. Funded.

Developing, Field-Testing, and Validating an Elementary Algebra Concept Inventory Database For Use In The College Context (Co-Principal Investigator)
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 701: Doctoral Mentored Lab Class
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

Exploring the intersection of creativity and critical thinking among students: A meta-analysis
Park, J. H., Myszkowski, N. & Niu, W. (2026). Thinking Skills and Creativity. Vol 60 , pages 102119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2025.102119

Correlates of higher trust in public health officials: results from a representative cohort of private university undergraduates
Gollub, E. L., Myszkowski, N., Xi, M., Boyraz, G. & Mendelsohn, J. B. (2025). Vaccine. Vol 63 , pages 127610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127610

One Score, Two Components: Disentangling Appropriateness and Originality in PISA Creative Thinking Judgments Using Generalized Item Response Tree Models
Myszkowski, N. & Storme, M. (2025). The Journal of Creative Behavior. Vol 59 (Issue 2) https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70033

Bayesian Estimation of Generalized Log-Linear Poisson Item Response Models for Fluency Scores Using brms and Stan
Myszkowski, N. & Storme, M. (2025). Journal of Intelligence. Vol 13 (Issue 3) , pages 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence13030026

A Pilot Evaluation of a School-Based Psychoeducational Program for Chinese and Latino/a Parents: Perceived Effectiveness and Acceptability
Rao, A., Arora, P. G. & Myszkowski, N. (2024). Contemporary School Psychology. Vol 28 (Issue 4) , pages 483-495. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40688-023-00453-9

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) , pages 307-318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-024-00797-z

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

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://www.mdpi.com/2079-3200/12/1/7

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

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. (2024). Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans. Vol 2 (Issue 1) , pages 100035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2023.100035

Personality Traits Leading Respondents to Refuse to Answer a Forced-Choice Personality Item: An Item Response Tree (IRTree) Model
Storme, M., Myszkowski, N., Kubiak, E. & Baron, S. (2024). Psych. Vol 6 (Issue 1) , pages 100-110. https://doi.org/10.3390/psych6010006

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

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

Cognitive and Conative Profiles of Creative People
Myszkowski, N., Barbot, B. & Zenasni, F. (2022). Springer International Publishing. , pages 33-48. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99674-1_3

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

The Social Environment of Creativity
Mouchiroud, C., Myszkowski, N. & Storme, M. (2022). Springer International Publishing. , pages 121-135. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99674-1_8

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. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000287

Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy--French Version
Myszkowski, N., Brunet-Gouet, E., Roux, P., Robieux, L., Malézieux, A., Boujut, E. & Zenasni, F. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1037/t79840-000

Analysis of an Intelligence Dataset
Myszkowski, N. (2020). Journal of Intelligence. Vol 8 (Issue 4) , pages 39. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence8040039

Aesthetic Sensitivity
Myszkowski, N. (2020). Oxford University Press. , pages 834-852. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198824350.013.40

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://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000225

Confirmation of a Two-Factor Solution to the Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy in a French Population of Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Brunet-Gouet, E., Myszkowski, N., Ehrminger, M., Urbach, M., Aouizerate, B., Brunel, L., Capdevielle, D., Chereau, I., Dubertret, C., Dubreucq, J., Fond, G., Lançon, C., Leignier, S., Mallet, J., Misdrahi, D., Pires, S., Schneider, P., Schurhoff, F., Yazbek, H., Zinetti-Bertschy, A., Bazin, N., Passerieux, C., Zenasni, F. & Roux, P. (2019). Frontiers in Psychiatry. Vol 10 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00751

Monitoring stress among internal medicine residents: an experience-driven, practical and short measure
Myszkowski, N., Villoing, B., Zenasni, F., Jaury, P. & Boujut, E. (2017). Psychology, Health & Medicine. Vol 22 (Issue 6) , pages 719-726. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2016.1220599

Anger and sadness as adaptive emotion expression strategies in response to negative competence and warmth evaluations
Celik, P., Storme, M. & Myszkowski, N. (2016). British Journal of Social Psychology. Vol 55 (Issue 4) , pages 792-810. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12149

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]