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  1. Critical debates on fundamental problems in quantitative psychology and measurement (Special Issue)

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2025, Frontiers

    Dr Jana Uher

  2. Psychology's Questionable Research Fundamentals (QRFs): Key problems beyond questionable practices

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2025, Frontiers

    Dr Jana Uher

  3. Why statistics is not measurement—and how language obscures their fundamental differences

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2025, Frontiers

    Dr Jana Uher

  4. Transdisciplinarity, Complexity Thinking and Dialectics

    Article • June 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jana Uher

  5. What are constructs? And why are there so many confusions about them?

    Article • Psychological Inquiry, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Jana Uher

  6. What's wrong with rating scales? A largely overlooked source of psychology's replication problems

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, March 2023, Wiley

    Dr Jana Uher

  7. Rating scales institutionalise a network of 12 problem complexes in psychological research practices

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Jana Uher

  8. Functions of units, scales and quantitative data: Fundamental differences in numerical traceability between sciences

    Article • Quality & Quantity, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana Uher

  9. Data are not out there ready to be collected like mushrooms in the forest

    Article • Theory & Psychology, June 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Jana Uher

  10. Psychometrics is not measurement - Common misconceptions mask fundamental differences

    Article • Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, February 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Jana Uher

  11. Quantitative psychology under scrutiny: Measurement requires not result-dependent but traceable data generation

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, February 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Jana Uher

  12. Psychology’s Status as a Science: Peculiarities and Intrinsic Challenges. Moving Beyond its Current Deadlock Towards Conceptual Integration

    Article • Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana Uher

  13. Measurement in metrology, psychology and social sciences: data generation traceability and numerical traceability as basic methodological principles applicable across sciences

    Article • Quality & Quantity, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana Uher

  14. Human uniqueness explored from the uniquely human perspective: Epistemological and methodological challenges

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr Jana Uher

  15. Quantitative data from rating scales: Measurement theories do not match how people generate ratings

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Jana Uher

  16. How different sciences produce their data: Commonalities and differences

    Article • Quality & Quantity, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana Uher

  17. Leading scholars on integrating models of individual differences and mental health

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Jana Uher

  18. Models of individual differences: A guide to integrate the expertise of different disciplines

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Jana Uher

  19. Individual differences and their biological foundations: Two millenia of research

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Jana Uher

  20. Basic Definitions in Personality Psychology: Challenges for Conceptual Integrations

    Article • European Journal of Personality, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Jana Uher

  21. Observing or assessing personality? Five methods study shows the differences

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Jana Uher

  22. What is behaviour? And (when) is speaking behaviour?

    Article • Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Jana Uher

  23. The challenges of studying experience

    Article • September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana Uher

  24. Fundamental challenges of modern “personality” research

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Jana Uher

  25. How the psyche enables us to become actors in our lives. Development and evolution

    Article • November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana Uher

  26. Models of individual differences cannot explain single persons: Common mistakes and new avenues

    Article • Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana Uher

  27. Personality psychology: The challenges of studying individuality

    Article • Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana Uher

  28. Categorising personality differences: Basic approaches and limitations of popular models

    Article • Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana Uher

  29. From observations of behaviour to personality ratings: Biases and limitations

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Jana Uher

  30. Studying personality in behaviour: Concepts, methods and analyses demonstrated in primates

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Jana Uher

  31. Popular personality models derived from everyday language and ratings reveal only half of the story

    Article • Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana Uher

  32. How to extract personality differences from behavioural measures: Concepts, approaches and analyses

    Article • Developmental Psychobiology, March 2011, Wiley

    Dr Jana Uher

  33. Personality in apes and monkeys: Applying concepts, approaches and methods from human research

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jana Uher

  34. Personality in great apes: Behaviour measures vs ratings of behaviours and adjectives

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, August 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Jana Uher

  35. Categorising and comparing personality differences within and across species: Concepts and methods

    Article • European Journal of Personality, August 2008, Wiley

    Dr Jana Uher

  36. Categorising personality differences: Three core issues in research methodology

    Article • European Journal of Personality, August 2008, Wiley

    Dr Jana Uher

  37. Commentaries on "Comparing personality differences within and across species"

    Article • European Journal of Personality, August 2008, Wiley

    Dr Jana Uher

  38. Measuring personality differences in behaviour: Concepts, methods and analyses shown in great apes

    Article • Animal Behaviour, January 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Jana Uher

  39. Counting and impulse control in great apes: Memorisation and transfer of skills to new situations

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Jana Uher

  40. Impulse control in great apes: Individual Differences larger than species differences

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Behavior Processes, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Jana Uher

  41. A meta-paradigm summarising key concepts of personality and integrating the field's grand theories

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Jana Uher