I’m an Assistant Professor at University of Novi Sad where I completed my PhD in 2019. My research applies computational methods to social science, with particular emphasis on network psychometrics and emotion analysis. Through interdisciplinary collaborations with physicists, psychologists, and computer scientists, I work on:
I’m currently part of two major research initiatives: the CTRUST project at the Institute of Physics Belgrade, where we’re developing computational models of trust dynamics in online communities, and IDIOMATIC, an international cross-cultural project spanning eleven countries studying identity development and adolescent mental health.
I’m the developer of transforEmotion, an R package for multimodal sentiment analysis (>9k CRAN installs) that implements state-of-the-art transformer models for emotion recognition.
Recently, I published a textbook in Serbian: Statistički metodi: Praktičan pristup u R-u.
My research has been published in journals such as EPJ Data Science, Current Psychology, and Personality and Individual Differences. My Erdős number is 4 (A. Tomašević – M. Mitrović Danuklov – G. Caldarelli – B. Bollobás – P. Erdős).
New paper! “A network analysis of the associations between the Dark Triad traits and domains of emotional functioning” is published in International Journal of Psychology.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70011
Citation: Grabovac, B., Dinić, B. M., Tomašević, A., Carroll, G., & Burke, T. (2025). A network analysis of the associations between the Dark Triad traits and domains of emotional functioning. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International de Psychologie, 60(2), e70011. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70011
MADOC dataset is published on Zenodo!
Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/14637314
arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12886
R and Python packages for downloading (subsets) of MADOC are available too.
Python: https://pypi.org/project/pymadoc/
R: https://github.com/atomashevic/rMADOC
transforEmotion version 1.5 in on Github and CRAN!
Repository: https://github.com/atomashevic/transforEmotion
Release notes: https://github.com/atomashevic/transforEmotion/releases/tag/0.1.5
It’s live! Dynamic exploratory graph analysis of emotions in politics is now published in Advances.in/psychology.
Open access link: https://advances.in/psychology/10.56296/aip00021/
New version of The Face of Populism: Examining Differences in Facial Emotional Expressions of Political Leaders Using Machine Learning preprint is up on PsyArXiv.
We added an image annotation study with open dataset and code for running your own annotation study.
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09914v4
Github (annotation study): https://github.com/atomashevic/fop-annotation
New version of Dynamic Exploratory Graph Analysis of Emotions in Politics preprint is up on PsyArXiv.
This version is accepted in Advances.in/Psychology journal, to be published very soon!
Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zgtrb
Github: https://github.com/atomashevic/dynega-emotions
June 29, 2024 Talk at Sunbelt 2024 conference.
Slides and code are here: https://github.com/atomashevic/sunbelt2024
Aspects of Identity Questionnaire-IV: An Examination of Structural Validity, Gender Invariance, and Relationships with Mental Health and Basic Psychological Needs Among Adolescents published in JPA
Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223891.2024.2367546
Workshop on Introduction to Python at CoPA Training School at University of Salamanca.
Materials can be found here: https://copa.atomasevic.com
I’m a Linux geek, so naturally I support FOSS in everything I do.
I enjoy coding in R, Python and Julia. I don’t enjoy JavaScript.
Whenever possible I prefer plain text
(txt, md, tex) to alternatives. I
like to own my files and don’t depend on proprietary software to read
them in 5, 10 years or more. I’m also a fan of single text file
productivty, you can check out my VSCode extension Working
Memory for more details.
Major, S., & Tomašević, A. (2023). The Face of Populism: Examining Differences in Facial Emotional Expressions of Political Leaders Using Machine Learning (arXiv:2304.09914). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09914
GitHub repository: https://github.com/atomashevic/face-of-populism
Vranić, A., Tomašević, A., Alorić, A., Mitrović Dankulov, M. (2023). Sustainability of Stack Exchange Q&A communities: The role of trust. EPJ Data Science, 12(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-023-00381-x
GitHub repository: https://github.com/ana-vranic/Stack-Exchange-communities
Dinić, B. M., Sokolovska, V., & Tomašević, A. (2021). The narcissism network and centrality of narcissism features. Current Psychology. <https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-01250-w
Dinić, B. M., Wertag, A., Sokolovska, V., & Tomašević, A. (2021). The good, the bad, and the ugly: Revisiting the Dark Core. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01829-x
Dinić, B. M., Wertag, A., Tomašević, A., & Sokolovska, V. (2020). Centrality and redundancy of the Dark Tetrad traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 155, 109621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109621
Sokolovska, V., Dinić, B., & Tomašević, A. (2018). Aggressiveness in the HEXACO personality model. Psihologija, 51(4), 449–468. https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI170705022S
Tomašević, A. (2021). Measuring the influence of beliefs in belief networks. ArXiv:2110.09154 [Physics, Stat]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09154
GitHub repostiory: https://github.com/atomashevic/belief-influence
Jovanović, V., Lazić, M., Gavrilov-Jerković, V., Obradović, V., Šakan, D., Tomašević, A., & Zotović-Kostić, M. (2024). Aspects of Identity Questionnaire-IV: An examination of structural validity, gender invariance, and relationships with mental health and basic psychological needs among adolescents. Journal of Personality Assessment, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2367546
Jovanović, V., Tomašević, A., Šakan, D., Lazić, M., Gavrilov-Jerković, V., Zotović-Kostić, M., & Obradović, V. (2024). The role of basic psychological needs in the relationships between identity orientations and adolescent mental health: A protocol for a longitudinal study. PloS One, 19(1), e0296507. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296507
Over the years I’ve consulted with a number of companies and organizations. Most of it is survey design, research and data analysis.Contact me if you’re interested in my services.
Previous clients:
At the start of COVID-19 pandemic I was happy to volunteer for Data Versus Corona in attempt
to use R and Shiny to visualize
the pandemic.