Sarah Depaoli, Ph.D.

Dr. Sarah Depaoli is Associate Professor and Area Head of Quantitative Methods, Measurement, and Statistics at the University of California, Merced. Her research interests are largely focused on issues surrounding Bayesian estimation of latent variable models.

Associate Editor:
Psychological Methods, 2019-present
Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2017-present

Guest Editor: 2020-2021 Special Issue of Frontiers in Psychology, Quantitative Psychology and Measurement called "Moving Beyond Non-Informative Prior Distributions: Achieving the Full Potential of Bayesian Methods for Psychological Research,"

Guest Editor: 2017-2018 Special Issue on Quantitative Methods in Psychology for Translational Issues in Psychological Science

Elected member of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP), 2016-present

Recipient of the 2020 Early Career Alumni Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Recipient of the 2015 Rising Star (Early Career) Award, Association for Psychological Sciences (Quantitative Psychology division)

Recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Dissertation Award, American Psychological Association, Division 5 (Methods)