Simran K. Johal

Simran K. Johal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California Davis, with previous employment as an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. Johal's research focuses on intensive longitudinal data analysis, prediction modeling, and psychometric networks, with particular emphasis on understanding personality dynamics and emotion fluctuations as predictors of psychological and relational outcomes. Johal's methodological work addresses statistical challenges in longitudinal research, including optimal sampling frequencies for continuous-time models and improved estimation techniques for psychometric networks with ordinal data. Johal's interdisciplinary contributions span personality science, relationship dynamics, and visual attention processes, combining network-based approaches with longitudinal study designs to advance understanding of psychological phenomena over time.