Publications

2022

  • Lange, R., Jerabek, I., & Dagnall, N. (in press). Do the 'Valentine's Day blues' exist? A legacy report on a purported psychological phenomenon. Journal of Scientific Exploration.
  • Lange, R., Jerabek, I., & Dagnall, N. (in press). Brief report: Testing the popular belief that men have commitment issues. Journal of Scientific Exploration.
  • Lange, R., Caputo, G.B, Lynn, S.J., and Houran, J. (in press). Mirror- and Eye-Gazing Perceptions in Advanced Psychometric Perspective: Preliminary Findings, Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice
  • Lange, R.,Houran, J., and Moran, Y. (2022). Assessing Consumer Enchantment to Guide Product Improvement: The Example of Historic Porto's 'Magic Train' Paper presented at iSCSi - International Conference on Industry Sciences and Computer Sciences Innovation. Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal (3-9 to 3-11, 2022)

2021

  • Lange, R., & Houran, J. (2021). Replicable survey evidence for a 'psi-enchantment' loop. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 53, 140-156.
  • Lange, R., Houran, J., & Tracey, J. B. (2021). Many happy returns: Preliminary study on retrospective and prospective experiences of enchantment. Tourism and Hospitality Research, advance online publication: https://doi.org/10.1177/14673584211035774
  • Lange, R.,Houran, J., and Moran, Y. (2021, in Press). Assessing Consumer Enchantment to Guide Product Improvement: The Example of Historic Porto's 'Magic Train'. Procedia Computer Science 00 (2021) xxx-xxx.

2020

  • Rense Lange, James Houran, Lorraine Sheridan, Neil Dagnall, Kenneth Drinkwater, Ciaran O'Keeffe & Brian Laythe (2020) Haunted people syndrome revisited: empirical parallels between subjective paranormal episodes and group-stalking accounts, Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 23:7, 532-549, DOI: 10.1080/13674676.2020.1767552
  • Houran, J., Lange, R., & Laythe, B. (2020). Understanding consumer enchantment via paranormal tourism: Part II - Preliminary Rasch validation. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, advance online publication: https://doi.org/10.1177/1938965520971276

2019

  • Martinez-Garrido, C. & Lange, R. (2019). Rendimiento académico y Miedo. Un estudio exploratorio. Revista de curriculum y formacíon del profesorado. Formación de proferado, Investigation y Justicia Social, Colaboration. 23, 280-297. https://doi.org/10.30827/profesorado.v23i4.11722
  • Lange, R. (2019). Quality Control in Large-Scale Online Knowledge Integration Using OBJECTIVE. Paper presented at the 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress, August 18-23, 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (to appear in proceedings).
  • Evans, J., Lange, R., Houran, J., & Lynn, S. J. (2019). Further psychometric exploration of the transliminality construct. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 6, 417-438. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000163

2018

  • Lange, R., de Oliveira Maraldi, E., Zangari, W., Corredato, V., Machado, F.R., & Alvarado, C. (2018). A Cross-Cultural Validation of the Revised Transliminality Scale in Brazil. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. In Press.
  • Evans, J., Lange, R., Houran, J., & Lynn, S. J. (2018). Further psychometric exploration of the transliminality construct. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/cns0000163
  • Lange, R., Houran, J., Evans, J, & Lynn, S. J. (2018). A review and re-evaluation of the Revised Transliminality Scale. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/cns0000153
  • Lange, R. (2018). Using Parallel Processing to Speed Up JMLE. Rasch Measurement Transactions, 2018, 31:4 p. 1654-1655
  • Houran, J., Lange, R., & Hooper, D. (2018). Cross-examining the case for precognition: Comment on Mossbridge and Radin (2018). Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 5(1), 98-109. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000126
  • Lange, R. (2018). Dynamic Testing: The Future of HR. Paper presented at the National HR in Hospitality Conference at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, USA, March 5-7, 2018.

2017

  • Houran, J., Tracey, B. & Lange, R. (2017). The Hospitality 'X Factor' in Non-Management Employees, Psychometrically Speaking. 4th Cornell Hospitality Research Summit (CHRS) Oct 5-7, 2017.
  • Yon, H. Lange, R, Abd Kadir, N., & Johar, N.A. Live Grading of Essay Questions Contributing to Computer Adaptive Testing (2017). Paper presented at the Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2017, August 7-9, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
  • Houran, J., Tracey, B. & Lange, R. (2017). Construction of an unbiased Rasch-based scorecard to evaluate hospitality personnel. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly. Accepted pending revision.
  • Lange, R., Martínez-Garrido, C., & Ventura, A. (2017). I'm scared to go to School! Capturing the Effects of Chronic Daily Fears on Students' Concept of Self. Journal of Applied Measurement. 18, 420-433.
  • Lange, R., Martínez-Garrido, C., & Ventura, A. (2017). The Effects of Chronic Daily Fears on Students' Concept of Self: Towards Identifying Students being Bullied. Paper presented at PROMS2017, Kota Kinabalu (Borneo), Sabah August 5-9, 2017.
  • Yon, H. Lange, R., Abd Kadir, N. & Johar, N.A. (2016). Development of a Malaysian Adaptive Integrity Test. In Aziz, N., Zulkepli Hew, J. & Abdul Hamid, MN., Proceedings of the Innovation and Analytics Conference & Exhibition (IACE) 2016. Paper presented at the Innovation & Analytics Conference & Exhibition (IACE) 2016, UUM, Kedah, Malaysia, 31st October-1st November (pp. 100-105). Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia: UUM.
  • Lange, R. (2017). Rasch Scaling and Cumulative Theory-Building in Consciousness Research. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 4, 135-160.

2016

  • Yon, H. Lange, R., Abd Kadir, N. & Johar, N.A. (2016). Development of a Malaysian Adaptive Integrity Test. In Aziz, N., Zulkepli Hew, J. & Abdul Hamid, MN., Proceedings of the Innovation and Analytics Conference & Exhibition (IACE) 2016. Paper presented at the Innovation & Analytics Conference & Exhibition (IACE) 2016, UUM, Kedah, Malaysia, 31st October-1st November (pp. 100-105). Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia: UUM.
  • Lange, R. (2017). Rasch Scaling and Cumulative Theory-Building in Consciousness Research. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 4, 135-160.
  • Lange, R. (2016). Design, Implementation, and Application of PROXerver to the Targeted Piloting of Multiple Choice and Computer Graded Essay Questions. Paper presented at the 10Th Conference of the International Testing Committee, Vancouver, July 1-4.

2015

  • Lange, R. (2015). My thanks to Professor Benjamin Wright: A Personal Perspective. Rasch Measurement Transactions, 29:3, 1543-1544.
  • Lange, R. (2015). Quality Control in Crowdsourcing: An Objective Measurement Approach to Identifying and Correcting Rater Effects in the Social Evaluation of Products and Services. Paper Presented at the Meeting of the Malaysian Psychometric Society, Kuala Lumpur, March 2015.
  • Lange, R. (2015). Early Detection of Alzheimer's disease by assessing olfactory abilities with the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT). Paper Presented at the Meeting of the Malaysian Psychometric Society, Kuala Lumpur, March 2015.
  • Yon, H., Lange, R., Abd Kadir, A., Lange, R., Johar, N.A., & Mutalib, N. (2015). Development of a computerized adaptive integrity test, MIT. Presented at the IACAT Conference, Queens College, Cambridge, UK. September 14-16, 2015.
  • Yon, H., Lange, R., Abdul Mutalib, N., Altaf, A., & Abd Kadir, N. (2015). CLOUDCAT: Towards Implementing CAT as a Web-Service. Paper presented at the International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing (IACAT), September 14-16, 2017, Queens College, Cambridge, UK.
  • Lange, R., Verhulst, S.J., Roberts. K., & Dorsey, J.K. (2015). Rasch Analysis of Professional Behavior in Medical Education. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 20(5), 1179-1194. doi: 10.1007/s10459-015-9594-0.
  • Lange, R. (2015). Validating Quantitative Measurement using Qualitative Data: Combining Rasch Scaling and Latent Semantic Analysis in Psychiatry. Journal of Physics-Conference Series, 588,012028
  • Lange, R., Houran, J. and Li (2015). Drive to Marry and Social Prescription in Chinese Online Daters. Interpersona, 2015,Vol. 9(2), 135-147, doi:10.5964/ijpr.v9i2.179
  • Lange, R. and Houran, J. (2015). "A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: "Perceptual-Personality Profiling via a Free-Response Imagery Task. North American Journal of Psychology, 17(3), 387.
  • Lange, R., Houran, J. and Greyson (2015). Using Computational Linguistics to Understand Near-Death Experiences: Concurrent Validity for the Near Death Experience Scale. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 21, 79-89.
  • Lange, R. and Houran, J. (2015). Giving up the Ghost to Psychology. In: Martin, M. and Augustine, K., The Myth of an Afterlife. Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 503-517.
  • Lange, R., Houran, J., & Li, S. (2015). Dyadic relationship values in Chinese online daters: love American style? Sexuality & Culture, 19, 190-215.
  • Lange, R., & Houran, J. (2015). Quality of Measurement - The Implicit Legal Cornerstone of HR Assessments. Employee Relations Law Journal. Vol. 40, No. 4, 46-60.

2013

  • Houran, J., Lange, R., & Kefgen, K. (2013). Industry Trends: Fascinating Rhythms in the Career Paths of Hospitality Executives. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 54, 1, pp. 6 - 9.

2012

  • Lange, R. and Lange, X. (2012). Quality Control in Crowdsourcing: An Objective Measurement Approach to Identifying and Correcting Rater Effects in the Social Evaluation of Products and Services. AAAI Spring Symposium Series, North America, Stanford, CA, 2012. (http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/SSS/SSS12/paper/view/4322/4691. Accessed: 29 May 2012)
  • Arce-Ferrer, A., and Lange, R. (2012). Assessing incidence and consequence of rater effects on open-ended scoring. Paper presented at the 8-th Conference of the International Test Commission (ITC). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 3-5, 2012.
  • Arce-Ferrer, A., and Lange, R. (2012). Effects of linguistic accommodations on mathematics test scores and reported skills diagnostics. Paper presented at the 2012 NCME Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC. April 12-16.
  • Arce-Ferrer, A., and Lange, R. (2012). Using cognitive modeling to investigate effects of linguistic simplifications of a source assessment. Paper presented at the 8-th Conference of the International Test Commission (ITC). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 3-5, 2012.

2011

  • Lange, R., Houran, J., and McCutcheon, L.E. (2011). Celebrity and Parasocial Interaction. In: Brewer, G., Media Psychology. Basinstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, p. 115-132.
  • Lange, X., and Lange, R. (2011). Haskell Possibilities for CAT. Paper presented at the 2011 International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing Conference. Pacific Grove, California, October 3-5, 2011.
  • Lange, R., Stevens, D., and Schwarz, P. (2011). Some Surprising Dynamics of "Technology Enhanced" Item Types: Taking Additional Time is Associated with Increased Student Performance on Some Types of Items, while Decreasing Performance on Others. 2011 International Association for Computerized Adaptive Testing Conference. Pacific Grove, California, Oct 3-5.
  • Birjandi, P., Daftarifard, P., and Lange, R. (2011). The effects of dynamic assessment on Rasch item and person hierarchies in second language testing. International Journal of Language Studies (IJLS), Vol. 5, Issue 1, 125-140.
  • Lange, R., Houran, J., & McCutcheon, L E. (2011). Celebrity worship and parasocial Interaction. In G. Brewer (Ed.), Media Psychology (pp. 115-132). Basinstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.

2010

  • Lange, R. (2010, June 6 - 9). An adaptive scheme for the dynamic Rasch calibration of pilot items. Poster presented at the first IACAT, Arnhem, the Netherlands.
  • Lange, R., and Houran, J. (2010). A transliminal view of intuitions in the workplace. North American Journal of Psychology, 2010, Vol. 12, No. 3, 501-516.
  • Houran, J., and Lange, R. (2010). Preliminary validity data on a new matching tool to combat hyperpersonal communication in online dating. Journal Media and Communication Studies Vol. 2(4) pp. 85-90, April, 2010

2009

  • Daftari Fard, P., and Lange, R. (2008). Theoretical complexity vs. Rasch item difficulty in reading tests. Rasch Measurement Transactions, 2009, 23:2, p. 1212-1213.

2008

  • Daftari Fard, P., and Lange, R. (2008). Theoretical complexity vs. Rasch item difficulty in reading tests. Rasch Measurement Transactions, 2009, 23:2, p. 1212-1213.
  • Lange, R. (2008). Binary Items and Beyond: Simulation of Computer Adaptive Testing Using the Rasch Partial Credit Model. Journal of Applied Measurement, 9(1):81-104.

2007

  • Lange, R. (2007, Feb 15-20). Technical Demands on the Large Scale Implementation of Student Assessments. I Bienal da Aprendizagem da Matemática e do Português (ISCTEM). Maputo, Mozambique.
  • Lange, R. (2007). Binary Items and Beyond: A Simulation of Computer Adaptive Testing Using the Rasch Partial Credit Model. In: Smith, E. and Smith, R. (Eds.) Rasch Measurement: Advanced and Specialized Applications. Pp. 148-180, Maple Grove, MN: JAM Press
  • Lange, R. & Rentfrow, L. (2007). Color and personality: Strong's interest inventory and Cattell's 16PF. North American Journal of Psychology, 9, 423-438.
  • Lange, R., & Thalbourne, M. A. (2007). The Rasch scaling of mystical experiences: construct validity and correlates of the Mystical Experience Scale (MES). The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 17, 121-140.
  • Houran, J., & Lange, R. (2007). State-of-the-art measurement in Human Resource assessment. International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Systems, 1, 78-92.

2006

  • Lange, R., and Houran, J. (2006, April 5-7). Perceived importance of employees' traits and abilities for performance in hospitality jobs. Paper presented at IOMW 2006, Berkeley, CA.
  • Wolfe F., MacIntosh, R., Kreiner, S., Lange, R., Graves, R, Linacre, J.M. (2006) Multiple Significance Tests. Rasch Measurement Transactions, 19:3 p. 1033-44.

2005

  • Lange, R., Jerabek, I., & Houran, J. (2005). Psychometric description of the TRUE Compatibility Test™ - a proprietary online matchmaking system. Dynamical Psychology.

2004

  • Houran, J., & Lange, R. (2004). Expectations of finding a 'soul mate' with online dating. North American Journal of Psychology, 6, 297-308.
  • Houran, J., Lange, R., Rentfrow, P. J., & Bruckner, K. H. (2004). Do online matchmaking tests work? An assessment of preliminary evidence for a publicized 'predictive model of marital success.' North American Journal of Psychology, 6, 507-526.
  • Lange, R., Greiff, W. R., Moran, J., and Ferro, L. (2004, May 2-7). A probabilistic Rasch analysis of question answering evaluations. Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT-NAACL 2004
  • Lange, R., Greyson, B., & Houran, J. (2004). A Rasch scaling validation of a "core" near-death experience. British Journal of Psychology, 95, 161-177.

2003

  • Houran, J., Thalbourne, M. A., & Lange, R. (2003). Methodological note: Erratum and comment on the use of the Revised Transliminality Scale. Consciousness and Cognition, 12, 140-144.
  • Maltby, John, James Houran, and Lynne McCutcheon (2003), "A Clinical Interpretation of Attitudes and Behaviours Associated with Celebrity Worship," The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, January, 1991 (1), 25-29.

2002

  • Lange, R., Thalbourne, M.A., Houran, J., & Lester, D. (2002). Depressive response sets due to gender and culture-based differential item functioning. Personality and Individual Differences, 33, 937-954.
  • Lange, R., Donathan, C.L., & Hughes, L.F. (2002). Assessing olfactory abilities with the University of Pennsylvania smell identification test: A Rasch scaling approach. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 4, 77-91.
  • McCutcheon, L.E., Lange, R., & Houran, J. (2002). Conceptualization and measurement of celebrity worship. British Journal of Psychology, 93, 67-87.
  • Maltby, J., Houran, J., Lange, R., Ashe, D. D., & McCutcheon, L. E. (2002). Thou shalt worship no other gods- unless they are celebrities: the relationship between celebrity worship and religious orientation. Personality and Individual Differences, 32, 1157-1172.

2001

  • Lange, R., McDade, S., & Oliva, T.A. (2001). Technological choice and network externalities: A catastrophe model analysis of firm software adoption for competing operating systems. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 12, 39-57.
  • Lange, R., Oliva, T.A., & McDade, S. (2001). An algorithm for estimating multivariate catastrophe models: GEMCAT II. Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, 4(3), 137-168. Also appears at http://www.bepress. com/snde/vol4/iss3/algorithm1.
  • Lange, R., & Hughes, L.F. (2001, Oct. 20). Rasch Scaling the UPSIT: Using Smell Recognition to Identify Alzheimer's Disease, Paper presented on the International Conference on Objective Measurement: Focus on Health Care (ICOM 2001), U. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • Houran, J., Irwin, H. J., & Lange, R. (2001). Clinical relevance of the two-factor Rasch version of the Revised Paranormal Belief Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 31, 371-382.
  • Lange, R., Wilson, G. D., Cousins, J., & Houran, J. (2005). Redefining compatibility: gender differences in the building blocks of relationship satisfaction. Presentation at the 17th Ann. APS Convention. May 26-29, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Lange, R., Irwin, H. J., Houran, J. (2001) Objective measurement of paranormal belief: a rebuttal to Vitulli. Psychological Reports, 88, 641-644.

2000

  • Kazuaki, U. and Lange, R. (2000, April 24-28). An International Perspective on Eight Grade Mathematics in Rural, Urban, and Suburban Schools: The United States vs. Korea. Paper at the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans
  • Lange, R. & Houran, J. (2000). Belief vs. fear: Modeling Maher's attribution theory of delusions as a cusp catastrophe using GEMCAT II, Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences, 4, 235-254
  • Lange, R., Thalbourne, M. A., Houran, J., & Storm, L. (2000). The revised Transliminality scale: Reliability and validity data from a Rasch Top-Down Purification procedure. Consciousness and Cognition, 9, 591-617.
  • Lange, R., Irwin, H. J., & Houran, J. (2000). Top-down purification of Tobacyk's Revised Paranormal Belief Scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 29, 131-156.

1999

  • Lange, R. (1999). A cusp catastrophe approach to the prediction of temporal patterns in the kill dates of individual serial murderers. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 3, 143-159.
  • Lange, R. (1999, October 18). Modeling catastrophes with latent variables in GEMCAT II: Applications to serial murder, paranormal delusions, and organizational product adoption. Presentation to the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association. Chicago, IL.
  • Lange, R., Oliva, T.A., & McDade, S. (1999, June 13-16). Multivariate catastrophe modeling with GEMCAT II: An organizational product adoption example. Paper presented at the AMA ART Forum. Sante Fe, NM.
  • Lange, R. & Houran, J. (1999). Scaling the AT-20 using item response theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 26, 467-475
  • Lange, R., & Houran, J. (1999). The role of fear in delusions of the paranormal. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 187, 159-166.

1997

  • Houran, J., and Lange, R. (1997). Hallucinations that comfort: contextual mediation of deathbed visions
  • Perceptual and Motor Skills, Jun 1.

1998

  • Lange, R. (1998). "GEMCAT II : A distribution-free method for testing the statistical properties of Thom's catastrophe equations as defined by sets of arbitrary latent variables." Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, Boston, MA., July 28-August 1.
  • Lange, R., & Houran, J. (1998). Delusions of the paranormal: a haunting question of perception. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 186, 637-645.
  • Houran, J., and Lange, R. (1998). Modeling precognitive dreams as meaningful coincidences. Psychological Reports. 1998 Dec;83(3 Pt 2):1411-4.

1997

  • Illinois TIMSS Task Force (1997). An initial analysis of the Illinois results from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMMS). Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield, Illinois, September 17, 1997.

1996

  • Lange, R. (1996). An empirical test of the weighted effect approach to generalized prediction using recursive neural nets. In: E. Simoudis, J. Han, & U. Fayyad. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Menlo Park: AAAI Press. Pp. 183-188.

1990

  • Fishbein, M., & Lange, R. (1990). The effects of crossing the midpoint on belief change: A replication and extension. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 16, 189-199.
  • Harandi, M.T. & Lange, R. (1990). Model Based Knowledge Acquisition. In: Adeli (Ed.). Knowledge Engineering. New York, NY: Addi-son-Wesley.

1988

  • Lange, R., and Chien, S. (1988). Exception hierarchy based knowledge representations for expery systems. Proceedings: USACERL/ASCE First Joint Conference on Expert Systems, June 29-30, 1988, Champaign, IL, 148-150.
  • Harandi, M.T., Lange, R., Buchner, B. (1988). Distributed Knowledge Acquisition Using Abstract Domain Models. Proceedings: USACERL/ASCE First Joint Conference on Expert Systems, June 29-30, 1988, Champaign, IL, 45-49.

1986

  • Lange, R. & Harandi, M.T. (1986). The elements of a distributed knowledge acquisition system. Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Expert Systems and Their Applications. Avignon, France 1988
  • Lange, R., Hearn, L., & Kearney, F.W. (1986). The use of knowledge engineering teams as a method for the development of expert systems. In: Sriram, D. and Adey, R. (Eds.). Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Problems. Boston, MA: Computational Mechanics Publications, pp. 45-54.

1985

  • Lange, R., and Harandi, M.T. (1985). Human Engineering Aspects of a Program Debugging Expert System. The IEEE Computer Society's Ninth International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Chicago, IL.

1983

  • Lange, R., & Fishbein, M. (1983). The effects of category differences on belief change and agreement with the source of a persuasive communication. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44, 933-941.