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Awards and Honors

• Thank A Teacher Commendation - University of South Carolina (01/05/2023)
• SCoer Faculty Award - University of South Carolina (05/01/2021)

• Ph D in Quantitative Psychology, University of Barcelona (2023)
• Ph D in Business Administration, IE Business School (2015)
• MS in Organizational Psychology, BI Norwegian Business School (2006)
• BS in Psychology, University of Belgrade (2004)

Publications

• An investigation of effects of instruction set on item desirability matching Personality and Individual Differences 216 (2024), Goran Pavlov.
• Model-data fit evaluation: Item fit and model selection Elsevier Science Fourth Edition (2023), Alberto Maydeu-Olivares, Shi Dexin, Goran Pavlov, Raul Ferraz.
• Item desirability matching in forced-choice test construction Personality and Individual Differences 183 (2021), Goran Pavlov, Dexin Shi, Alberto Maydeu-Olivares, Amanda Fairchild.
• Using the standardized root mean squared residual (SRMR) to assess exact fit in structural equation models. Educational and Psychological Measurement 81 1 (2021), Goran Pavlov, Alberto Maydeu-Olivares, Dexin Shi.
• Chi-square difference tests for comparing nested models: An evaluation with non-normal data Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal 27 6 (2020), Goran Pavlov, Alberto Maydeu-Olivares, Dexin Shi.

Presentations

• Will item desirability matching match forced-choice personality tests in desirability? (2025), Volume Denver, CO, Goran Pavlov.
• Goodness of fit testing of structural equation models in cross-validation samples (2022), Volume Bologna, Italy, Alberto Maydeu-Olivares, Dexin Shi, Raul Ferraz, Goran Pavlov.
• Comparing different approaches for obtaining item desirability ratings (2022), Volume Seattle, WA, Goran Pavlov.
• How to use item desirability ratings in constructing forced-choice tests (2020), Volume Austin, TX, Goran Pavlov, Dexin Shi, Alberto Maydeu-Olivares.

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