Niels Waller

Publications

• Tomarken, A., & Waller, N. G. (2005). Structural Equation Modeling as a Data-Analytic Framework for Clinical Science: Strengths, Limitations, and Misconceptions. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 31-65.
• Kang, S. M., & Waller, N. G. (2005). Moderated Multiple Regression, Spurious Interaction Effects, and IRT. Applied Psychological Measurement, 29, 87-105.
• (2004). The fallacy of the null hypothesis in soft psychology. Applied and Preventive Psychology, 11, 83-86.
• Waller, N. G. & Jones, J. A. (2010). Correlation weights. Psychometrika, 75, 58-69.
• Waller, N. G., & Reise, S. P. (2010). Measuring psychopathology with non-standard IRT models: Fitting the four-parameter model to the MMPI. In S. E. Embretson (Ed.). Measuring psychological constructs with model-based approaches, 147-173.
• Waller, N. G. & Jones, J. A. (2009). Locating the extrema of fungible regression weights. Psychometrika, 74, 589-602.
• Reise, S. P. & Waller, N. G. (2009). Item Response Theory and Clinical Measurement. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 5, 27-48.
• Waller, N. G. (2008). Fungible weights in multiple regression. Psychometrika, 73, 691-703.
• Waller, N. G., Yonce, L. J., Grove, W. M., Faust, D., & Lenzenweger, M. (Eds.) (2006). A Paul Meehl reader: Essays on the practice of scientific psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc..
• (2006). Carving nature at its joints: Paul Meehl’s contributions to taxometrics. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 210-215.
• Waller, N. G., & Lilienfeld. S. (2005). Paul Meehl: The cumulative record. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61, 1209-1229.
• Waller, N. G., & Meehl, P. E. (2002). Risky tests, verisimilitude and path analysis. Psychological Methods, 7, 323-337.
• Meehl, P. E., & Waller, N. G. (2002). The path analysis controversy: A new statistical approach to strong appraisal of verisimilitude. Psychological Methods, 7, 283-300.
• Waller, N. G., Underhill, J. M., & Kaiser, H. A. (1999). A method for generating simulated plasmodes and artificial test clusters with user-defined shape, size, and orientation. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 34, 123-142.
• (1999). Searching for structure in the MMPI. In S. Embretson & S. Hershberger (Eds.), The New Rules of Measurement: What every psychologist and educator should know, 185-217.
• Waller, N. G., Kaiser, H. A., Illian, J. B., & Manry, M. (1998). A comparison of the classification capabilities of the 1-dimensional Kohonen Neural Network with two partitioning and three hierarchical cluster analysis algorithms. Psychometrika, 63, 5-22.
• Waller, N. G., & Meehl, P. E. (1998). Multivariate taxometric procedures: Distinguishing types from continua. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
• Waller, N. G., & Shaver, P. (1997). The cultural transmission of romantic love styles: A Twin-family study. Psychological Science, 5, 268-274.
• Waller, N. G., Kojetin, B. A., Bouchard, T. J., Lykken, D. T., & Tellegen, A. (1990). Genetic and environmental influences on religious interests, attitudes and values: A study of twins reared apart and together. Psychological Science,, 1, 138-142.
• Waller, N. G., & Reise, S. P. (1989). Computerized adaptive personality assessment: An illustration with the Absorption scale. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol(57), 6, 1051-1058.

Activities

Awards

• Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Individual Differences, 2005
• Raymond B. Cattell Award for Multivariate Experimental Research, Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology, 1997
• Morton Prince Award, International Society for the Study of Dissociation, 1997
• Thomas Small Prize, Harvard University, 1989