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Upcoming Events

3-day practical workshop on
IRT and CAT using Concerto
7-9 August 2013, Cambridge, UK

5-day course leading to
BPS Certificates of Test Use
(formerly BPS Level A and B)
2-6  Sept 2013, Cambridge, UK

Summer School: Quantitative
Methods in Social Science
August 2013, Cambridge, UK

Jumpstart Mplus: Researcher
Development Workshop
11-13 Sept 2013, Cambridge, UK

Recent Conference Presentations

Bi, B., Shokouhi, M., Kosinski, M., Graepel, T. (2013) A Young Liberal Christian Woman Is Searching The Web. 23rd International World-Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013)

Celli, F., Pianesi, F., Stillwell, D.S., Kosinski, M. (2013) Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition (Shared Task). The 7th International AAAI Conference On Weblogs And Social Media (Boston)

Meade, A. W., Foster Thompson, L., Kuo, E.W., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D.J. (2013) The Influence of Culture and Human Development on Personality Measurement. 16th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (Munster)  

Kosinski, M. (2012) Are we being sold online? Cambridge Festival of Ideas, October 2012 (link to audio)

Friggeri, A., Lambiotte, R., Kosinski, M., Fleury E. (2012) Psychological Aspects of Social Communities. SocialCom (Amsterdam)

Stillwell, D.J., Kosinski, M. (2012) myPersonality project: Example of successful utilization of online social networks for large-scale social research.  Mobile systems for Computational Social Science (Low Wood Bay).

Kimura, T., Han, K., Kosinski, M., Shoijma, K., Magis, D. (2012) A framework and approaches to develop an in-house CAT with freeware and open source software. IACAT (Sydney, Australia)

Bachrach, Y., Kosinski, M., Graepel, T., Kohli, P., & Stillwell, D. (2012) Personality and Patterns of Facebook Usage. ACM WebSci 2012, Evanston, Illinois.

Kosinski, M., Bachrach, Y., Kasneci, G., Van Gael, J., Graepel, T. (2012) Crowd IQ: Measuring the Intelligence of Crowdsourcing Platforms. ACM WebSci 2012, Evanston, Illinois.

Kosinski, M., Kohli, P., Stillwell, D., Bachrach, Y., & Graepel, T. (2012) Personality and Website Choice. ACM WebSci 2012.Evanston, Illinois.

Kohli, P., Bachrach, Y., Stillwell, D., Kearns, M., Herbrich, R., & Graepel, T. (2012) Colonel Blotto On Facebook: The Effect of Social Relations On Strategic Interaction. ACM WebSci 2012.,Evanston, Illinois.

Quercia, D., Las Casas, D., Pesce, J.P., Stillwell, D., Kosinski, M., Almeida, V., Crowcroft, J. (2012) Facebook and Privacy: The Balancing Act of Personality, Gender, and Relationship Currency. Conference On Weblogs And Social Media (Dublin, June)

Kern, M.L., Schwartz, H.A., Eichstaedt, J.C., Dziurzynski, L., Ramones, S.M., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D.J., Ungar, L.H. (2012) Personality and Word Use: Positive and Negative Expressions of the Self Through Social Media. European Positive Psychology Conference (Moscow, June).

Crosier, B., Webster, G., Stillwell, D., Kosinski, M., Orozco, S.T., Novell, C. (2012) Personality Shapes Real-World and Online Social Networks. Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in San Diego, CA

Kosinski, M., Rust, J. (2011) The Development of Concerto v2.0: An Open Source Online Adaptive Testing Platform. International Association for Computerized and Adaptive Testing (IACAT), Pacific Grove, CA.

Kosinski, M., Rust, J. (2011) The Development of Concerto v1.0: An Open Source Online Adaptive Testing Platform. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), Hong Kong.

Sun, L., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D., Rust, J. (2011) On the Test-Retest Reliability of the 100-item IPIP Scales: Differential Temporal Stability of the Big Five Personality Traits. International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS), Hong Kong.