{"id":136,"date":"2026-07-19T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2026-08-11T13:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:56:43","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/2026\/07\/19\/its-time-to-test-the-likert-scale\/\">It&#8217;s time to test the Likert scale<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">University at Buffalo psychologist&#8217;s research suggest that a response format should be given as much thought as the test itself. &#8220;The number of options does matter, especially for measures of personality constructs like those we assessed in our study,&#8221; says Leonard Simms, an associate professor in the UB Department of Psychology and lead author of &#8230; <a title=\"It&#8217;s time to test the Likert scale\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/2026\/07\/19\/its-time-to-test-the-likert-scale\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about It&#8217;s time to test the Likert scale\">Read more<\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-136","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/3plab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}