Contact

Github: benlistyg
Email: listyg[@]uga.edu / listyg.ben[@]gmail.com
Twitter: @benlistyg

Education

University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
- 08/2019-On-going: M.S./PhD, Industrial-Organizational Psychology
- 08/2012-05/2016: B.S., Psychology
  - minor in Statistics
  - Magna Cum Laude
University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
- 08/2016-12/2017(withdrew): M.A./PhD, Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Awards and Honors

8/2023-7/2024: Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life Graduate Student Affiliate
4/2023: University of Georgia Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program Donald L. Grant Award for Outstanding Master of Science Thesis
10/2021: Society for Industrial and Organizaঞonal Psychology William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award Honorable Mention ($500)
7/2021: Association for Research in Personality Best Student Poster Award
3/2019: Chicago R Unconference Travel Funding (joint w/ Wyzant Education Stipend) ($200)
5/2017: University of South Florida Herb Meyer Fellowship ($750)
5/2016: University of Georgia Psychology Department Newsletter Profile
1/2016: University of Georgia Washington Semester Fellowship ($1,000)
5/2015: University of Georgia Scott Torgeson Undergraduate Research Award ($500)
8/2012 - 5/2016: Zell Miller Scholarship (~$45,000)
8/2012 – 5/2016: University of Georgia Dean’s List

Research Experience

8/2019 - Present: Graduate Research Assistant, Applied Psychometrics Lab, University of Georgia
8/2019 - Present: Graduate Research Assistant, SPREE Lab, University of Georgia

Patents

Listyg, B., Cororan, E., Angellotti, M., Zajaczkowski, B., Gostelow, J., Casal, J., & Jaress, D. (2023). U.S. Patent No. 11,651,141. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Publications

Published Papers

Waikel, L., Listyg, B., Owens, M. M., Hyatt, C. S., Carter, N.T., Carter, D. R., Lynam, D. R., & Miller, J. D. (2024). An examination of structural morphometry as a mediator of the links between sex and psychopathology in ABCD. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
McMillan, J.T., Listyg, B., Cooper, J. (2023). Neurodiversity and Talent Measurement: Revisiting the Basics. Industrial-Organizational Psychology.
Hyatt, C.S., Listyg, B., Owens, M.M., Carter, N.T., Carter, D.R., Lynam, D.R., Harden, K.P., & Miller, J.D. (2022). Structural Brain Differences Do Not Mediate The Relations Between Gender and Personality or Psychopathology. Journal of Personality.
Hyatt, C.S., Sharpe, B.M., Owens, M.M., Listyg, B., Carter, N.T., Lyman, D.R, & Miller, J.D. (2021). Searching High and Low for Replicable Associations between Brain Morphometry and Personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Harris, A. M., McMillan, J. T., Listyg, B., Matzen, L. E., & Carter, N. (2020). Measuring Intelligence with the Sandia Matrices: Psychometric Review and Recommendations for Free Raven-Like Item Sets. Personnel Assessment and Decisions, 6(3), 6.
Carter, N. T., Lowery, M. R., Williamson Smith, R., Conley, K. M., Harris, A. M., Listyg, B., Maupin, C. K., King, R. T., & Carter, D. R. (2020). Understanding job satisfaction in the causal attitude network (CAN) model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(9), 959–993.
Harris, A.M., Siedor, L.E., Fan, Y., Listyg, B., & Carter, N.T. (2016). In defense of the situation: An interactionist explanation for performance on situational judgment tests. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 9, 29-34.

Working Papers

Listyg, B. & Carter, N.T. Evaluating Global Fit Index Cutoffs For Multidimensional Item Response Models.
Listyg, B., Richardson, J.M., & Carter, N.T. Hit or a Miss? Examining Vocational Interest Inventory Hit Rates Through the Lens of Machine Learning.

Papers In-Progress

It’s a Small, Small-world (or is it?) Evaluating Study Design Factors for Psychometric Small-world Estimation. (w/ Nathan Carter)
What makes a CURE? (w/ C.J. Zajic & Erin Dolan)
What are the youths saying these days? A content analysis of TikTok labor market guidance.
A Practitioners Guide for Conducting EMA Designs in Undergraduate Research Settings (w/ Erin Dolan & Brook Bowers)
Language-based Predictors of Sexual Assault Legislation Outcomes. (w/ Brennah Ross)
Design Recommendations for Mediation Analysis in Science Educational Research (w/ Erin Dolan)
WAETR: An R Package for Computing Website Accessibility at Scale. (w/ Brennah Ross)
Did Age Verification Laws Change Search Behavior: A Pre-Registered Study of Google Trends (w/ David Lang, Lief Ebenshade, & Saurabh Khanna)

Retired Papers

Hess, R.A., Listyg, B., Carter, N.T. Revisiting the Genetic Correlation between Personality and Job Satisfaction: The Role of Affect and Job Characteristics.
Hess, R.A., Listyg, B., Carter, N.T., Hoffman, B.J., Wegman, L., Birkelbach, D., & Lance, C.E. A Sign of the Times: The Importance of General Mental Ability Increases over Time in the Modern Workplace.