The Dark and Bright Future of Psychological Assessment

Measures of latent psychological constructs have changed over the course of millennia. While psychological assessments have incrementally changed in the last 100-years, Psychology is currently facing an epochal transition into computational psychology that will require major shifts in education and knowledge creation. In this keynote I will discuss how big data and machine learning continues to change psychometrics and psychology more broadly. I will discuss how the development of more objective and data-driven assessment tools will help to understand human behavior and how we are now entering a new area in psychological science – the extension of the discipline to the systematic investigation of non-human intelligences. This new era more than ever requires a radical open science approach to allow research to be replicable and robust. I will conclude with an outlook perspective on challenges and most importantly, opportunities.