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Research

Publications and Preprints

Applied LLM

  • Scaling Item-to-Standard Alignment with Large Language Models: Accuracy, Limits, and Solutions
    F. Karimi-Malekabadi, P. Razavi, & S. Powers (2025). OSF Preprint.
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  • Estimating Item Difficulty Using Large Language Models and Tree-Based Machine Learning Algorithms
    P. Razavi & S. J. Powers (2025). arXiv Preprint arXiv:2504.08804.
    arXiv

  • Exploring the potential of large language models to understand interpersonal emotion regulation strategies from narratives.
    B. López-Pérez, Y. Chen, X. Li, S. Cheng, & P. Razavi (2025). Emotion.

Psychometrics, Psychology, and Methodology

  • Comprehensive personality structure in the Persian language: High-dimensionality analyses of trait adjectives.
    N. Aghababaei, G. Saucier, V. Vader, & P. Razavi (2025). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

  • Anger: Justified and Unjustified
    P. Razavi, S. D. Hodges, D. M. Condon, D. T. Wagner, & S. Srivastava (2025). PsyArXiv.
    Preprint Data

  • Awe is associated with creative personality, convergent creativity, and everyday creativity.
    J. W. Zhang, R. T. Howell, P. Razavi, H. Shaban-Azad, W. J. Chai, T. Ramis, et al. (2024). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

  • Complexities and lessons in researching culture-specific experiences
    P. Razavi, A. Iyer, K. Gorur, & M. Silan (2023). APS Observer.
    Article

  • Social Consequences of Anger Expression: The Role of Target of Harm and Expresser’s Gender
    P. Razavi, S. D. Hodges, D. M. Condon, D. T. Wagner, & S. Srivastava (2023). PsyArXiv.
    Preprint Data

  • Gheirat as a complex emotional reaction to relational boundary violations: A mixed-methods investigation.
    P. Razavi, H. Shaban-Azad, & S. Srivastava (2022). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
    Preprint Data

  • Victim number effects in charitable giving: Joint evaluations promote egalitarian decisions.
    A. Garinther, H. Arrow, & P. Razavi (2022). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
    Preprint Data

  • The Big Five across socioeconomic status: Measurement invariance, relationships, and age trends.
    B. T. Hughes, C. K. Costello, J. Pearman, P. Razavi, C. Bedford-Pearson, R. M. Ludwig, & S. Srivastava (2021). Collabra: Psychology.
    Open Access

  • A Multidimensional approach to the relationship between individualism–collectivism and guilt and shame.
    I. F. Young, P. Razavi, T. R. Cohen, Q. Yang, M. Alabèrnia-Segura, & D. Sullivan (2021). Emotion.
    Preprint Data

  • Benefits associated with experiential and material purchases may depend on culture.
    P. Razavi, H. Shaban-Azad, W. J. Chai, J. W. Zhang, N. Nguyen, & R. T. Howell (2020). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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  • A compassionate self is a true self? Self-compassion promotes subjective authenticity.
    J. W. Zhang, S. Chen, T. K. Tomova, B. Bilgin, W. J. Chai, T. Ramis, H. Shaban-Azad, P. Razavi, T. Nutankumar, & A. Manukyan (2019). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
    Article

  • Cross-cultural similarities and differences in the experience of awe.
    P. Razavi, J. W. Zhang, D. Hekiert, S. H. Yoo, & R. Howell (2016). Emotion.
    Preprint

Presentations

Applied LLM

  • Estimating Item Difficulty Using Large Language Models and Tree-Based Machine Learning Algorithms — P. Razavi, S. Powers. NCME 2025, Denver.

  • ChatGPT is an Effective Tool for Evaluating Educational Content Alignment — F. Karimi-Malekabadi, P. Razavi, S. Powers. NCME 2025, Denver.

  • Bridging bilingual gaps: An in-depth exploration of ChatGPT's transadaptation capabilities. — X. Xiao, P. Razavi, & S. Powers. NCME 2024, Philadelphia, PA.

Psychometrics, Psychology, and Methodology

  • Exploring Methods to Make Through-Year Assessment Results Instructionally Relevant — P. Razavi, S. Powers. NCME 2025, Denver.

  • Evaluating examinee engagement through modeling the relation between response time and item word count. — P. Razavi, & S. Powers. AERA 2024, Philadelphia, PA.

  • Item Word Count and Response Time as a Window into Participants’ Response Processes: Insights from a Large Educational Dataset. — P. Razavi, & S. Powers. SPSP 2024, San Diego, CA.

  • Emotions as signals of relational violations: The cases of anger and gheirat. — P. Razavi (Invited). Linfield University (April 2023), OR.

  • The impact of missingness on the dimensionality structure of measures. — P. Razavi, & S. Powers. SPSP 2023, Atlanta, GA.

  • Gender differences and similarities in the experience of anger. — E. Lashchuk, S. Srivastava, & P. Razavi. Emotion Pre-Conference, SPSP 2023, Atlanta, GA.

  • The Dichotomy of Justified and Unjustified Anger: Antecedents and Social Consequences. — E. Doloszycki, E. Lashchuk, A. Castillo, S. Srivastava, & P. Razavi. SPSP 2023, Atlanta, GA.

  • Gheirat: Emotional reactions to relational boundary violations. — P. Razavi, H. Shaban-Azad, & S. Srivastava. SPSP 2022, San Francisco, CA.

  • Iranian adults’ perceptions of gheirat expressors. — P. Razavi, H. Shaban-Azad, & S. Srivastava. ARP 2021 (virtual).

  • Perceptions of relational mobility influence emotional expressivity. — P. Razavi, D. Sugawara, P. Lin, E. Tee, S. Razavi, S. Lieber, G. Saucier, & S. Srivastava. APS 2021 (virtual).

  • Fair peer review practices and increasing the diversity of psychological science. — P. Razavi. University of Oregon (May 2021).

  • Relationship between emotional experience and expressivity; A cross-cultural investigation. — P. Razavi, E. Tee, D. Sugawara, P. Lin, S. Razavi, S. Lieber, G. Saucier, & S. Srivastava. SPSP 2021 (virtual).

  • Gheirat as a complex emotional reaction to relational boundary violations. — P. Razavi, H. Shaban-Azad, & S. Srivastava. Washington University in St. Louis (Nov 2020).

  • Gheirat as a complex emotional reaction to relational boundary violations. — P. Razavi, H. Shaban-Azad, & S. Srivastava. USC Computational Social Science Lab (Oct 2020).

  • What we don’t know and we don’t know that we don’t know. — P. Razavi & S. Srivastava. Psychological Science Accelerator Conference 2020 (virtual).

  • Manifestations of honor norm violations in a Middle Eastern culture. — P. Razavi, H. Shaban-Azad, & S. Srivastava. SPSP 2020, New Orleans, LA.

  • Contextual and cultural predictors of emotional expressivity in four countries. — P. Razavi, D. Sugawara, P. Lin, E. Tee, S. Razavi, S. Srivastava, & G. Saucier. SPSP 2020, New Orleans, LA.

  • A cross-cultural investigation of the relation between BMI and loneliness and the moderating role of gender. — Y. Wang, P. Razavi, & D. Condon. SPSP 2020, New Orleans, LA.

  • Victim number effects in charitable giving: Joint evaluations promote egalitarian decisions. — A. Garinther, H. Arrow, & P. Razavi. SPSP 2020, New Orleans, LA.

  • Emotional reactions to violations of honor: A multi-method investigation of Gheirat in Iran. — P. Razavi, H. Shaban-Azad, & S. Srivastava. Society for Affective Science 2019, Boston, MA. (Hot-spot talk)

  • Similarities and differences in the expression of six emotions in Malaysia and the US. — P. Razavi, E. Tee, D. Sugawara, P. Lin, S. Razavi, S. Lieber, T. Niella, J. Navajas, & S. Srivastava. Society for Affective Science 2019, Boston, MA. (Poster)

  • Developing a scale to examine the cross-cultural differences in experience and expression of six emotions. — S. Razavi, D. Sugawara, P. Lin, E. Tee, S. Lieber, S. Srivastava, G. Saucier, & P. Razavi. SPSP 2019, Portland, OR. (Poster)

  • Money and happiness across cultures: An examination of the experiential advantage in three countries. — P. Razavi, H. Shaban-Azad, W. J. Chai, J. W. Zhang, N. Nguyen, & R. T. Howell. WPA 2018, Portland, OR. (Poster)

  • Emotion regulation and social functioning among Malaysian adults with a history of substance use. — S. Razavi, G. C. Chee-Yan, A. Ismail, & P. Razavi. SPSP 2018, Atlanta, GA. (Poster)

  • Self-compassion: A practical introduction. — P. Razavi. PREP Treatment Center (April 2016), Hayward, CA. (Invited)

  • Social isolation moderates the relationship between self- and other-perceptions. — P. Razavi, R. T. Howell, & S. H. Yoo. WPA 2016, Long Beach, CA. (Talk)

  • Attitudes towards emotion expression mediate the relationship between loneliness and suppression. — P. Razavi & S. H. Yoo. SPSP 2016, San Diego, CA. (Poster)

  • Manipulation of choice value through multifinality. — P. Razavi & W. N. Cheong. 2nd Malaysian Psychology Conference 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Paper)

Awards & Grants

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Year Award / Grant / Honor Organization
2021 General University Scholarship University of Oregon
2021 Norman D. Sundberg Fellowship University of Oregon
2021 Marthe Smith Memorial Science Scholarship University of Oregon
2020 General University Scholarship University of Oregon
2019 10th Annual Grad Research Forum – Best Poster (Category C) University of Oregon
2019 General University Scholarship University of Oregon
2019 Summer Institute for Social and Personality Psychology (SISPP) – Course: Moral Psychology (Paul Bloom & Azim Shariff) NYU
2019 Society for Affective Science – First Place Award (Poster) SAS
2019 Conference Travel Award (Committee for an Inclusive Community) University of Oregon
2018 APA Division 52 – First Place Award (Poster, WPA) American Psychological Association
2018 Conference Travel Award University of Oregon
2017 Diversity Fund Graduate Travel Award Society for Personality and Social Psychology
2016 Promising Scholar Award University of Oregon
2016 Distinguished Achievement Award for Academic Excellence San Francisco State University
2016 Honorable Mention – COSE Project Showcase (Graduate Psychology Poster) San Francisco State University
2016 College of Science and Engineering Conference Travel Grant San Francisco State University
2016 Psychology Department General Scholarship San Francisco State University
2015 College of Science and Engineering Conference Travel Grant San Francisco State University
2014 State University Grant San Francisco State University
2013 First Class Honours Undergraduate Award HELP University (Kuala Lumpur)