IMPS 2024 Research Competition FAQ

To be eligible to compete, each team member must be a full-time graduate student or have graduated no earlier than January 31, 2024. Each team is limited to up to five (5) members, consisting of a single team lead and up to four (4) additional members.

Yes, individual submissions will be accepted.

If you are submitting as an individual, you must register for IMPS 2024 and agree to present. If you are submitting as a team, at least one of your team members must register for IMPS 2024 and agree to present. The team lead does not have to be the person registered for IMPS.

You must register for the conference by May 15.

Teams’ initial project submissions are due on May 27, 2024 at 11:59pm PST. A panel of judges will select a group of three finalist teams who will present their work during the IMPS 2024 conference. At the conference, the judges will select a winning team based on their proposal and presentation.  

The winning team receives a certificate and a cash prize of $2000.

Below are a couple of links to examples of published studies that have incorporated generative AI for psychometric research. Note that this list is not exhaustive nor is it meant to define the breadth of projects, but merely to serve as inspiration and provide background or a starting point if needed.  

• Automated item generation using GPT
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36795435/
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11336-018-9608-y
• Emergent Intelligence
  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083
• AI generates hypotheses:
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-generates-hypotheses-human-scientists-have-not-thought-of/
  • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620959594
• AI design experiments:
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-designs-quantum-physics-experiments-beyond-what-any-human-has-conceived/
• AI analyses textual data
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-024-02344-0