University of HoustonDepartment of Psychology
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Lynne Steinberg, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Lynne Steinberg, Ph.D.
Lynne Steinberg, Ph.D.
Doctorate: University of Kansas
Undergraduate: Clark University


Research Interests
  • Applications of the psychometric methods of item response theory to personality and social psychological measurement issues
  • Processes underlying responses to self-report questions
  • Context effects in personality measurement
  • Development and validation of new instruments for personality, social, and clinical research

Teaching

  • Introduction to Psychological Statistics (undergraduate)
  • Applied Psychological Measurement (graduate)
 
E-mail:  lsteinberg@UH.EDU
 
Selected Publications
 
Steinberg, L. (2001). The consequences of pairing questions: Context effects in personality measurement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 332-342.

Steinberg, L., Thissen, D., & Wainer, H. (2000). Validity. In H. Wainer, N. Dorans, R., Flaugher, D. Eignor, B. Green, R. Mislevy, L. Steinberg, & D. Thissen, Computerized adaptive testing: A primer. (Second Edition) Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Steinberg, L., & Jorgensen, R. (1996). Assessing the MMPI-based Cook-Medley Hostility scale: The implications of dimensionality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 1281-1287.

Steinberg, L., & Thissen, D. (1996). Uses of item response theory and the testlet concept in the measurement of psychopathology. Psychological Methods, 1, 81 - 97.

Steinberg, L. & Thissen, D. (1995). Item response theory methods in personality research. In P.E. Shrout & S.T. Fiske (Eds.) Personality research, methods, and theory: A Festschrift honoring Donald W. Fiske. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Steinberg, L. (1994). Context and serial order effects in personality measurement: Limits on the generality of "measuring changes the measure." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 341-349.

Thissen, D., Steinberg, L., & Kuang, D. (2002). Quick and easy implementation of the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure for controlling the false discovery rate in multiple comparisons. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 27, 77-83.

Thissen, D. & Steinberg, L. (1997). A response model for multiple choice items. In W. J. van der Linden & R. K. Hambleton (Eds.) Handbook of modern item response theory. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag.