Journal Club

Past meetings of the Journal Club and the discussed publications can be found on this website.

Summer term 2024

Journal Club meetings at university in SRIIb, A2.4:

  • 26.04.2024:

    Hussey, I., & Hughes, S. (2020). Hidden Invalidity Among 15 Commonly Used Measures in Social and Personality Psychology. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(2), 166–184. doi.org/10.1177/2515245919882903
     
  • 24.05.2024:

    Simons, D. J., Shoda, Y., & Lindsay, D. S. (2017). Constraints on Generality (COG): A Proposed Addition to All Empirical Papers. Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 12(6), 1123–1128. doi.org/10.1177/1745691617708630
     
  • 05.07.2024:

    Pek, J., Pitt, M. A., & Wegener, D. T. (2024). Uncertainty limits the use of power analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(4), 1139–1151. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001273

Time: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.)

Organizers: Marcel Pauly & Lisa Peuckmann

 
Winter term 2023/24

Journal Club meetings at university in SRIIb, A2.4:

  • 03.11.2023:
    • “Misinterpreting p: The discrepancy between p values and the probability the null hypothesis is true, the influence of multiple testing, and implications for the replication crisis” (Anderson, 2020)
  • 01.12.2023:
  • 12.01.2024:
    • Schumann, F., Smolka, M., Dienes, Z., Lübbert, A., Lukas, W., Rees, M. G., Fucci, E., & van Vugt, M. (2023). Beyond kindness: A proposal for the flourishing of science and scientists alike. Royal Society Open Science10(11), 230728. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230728

Time: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.)

Organizers: Marcel Pauly & Lisa Peuckmann

Summer term 2023

Journal Club meetings will take place in SRIIA, A2.4:

  • 21.04.2023: “Realistic precision and accuracy of online experiment platforms, web browsers, and devices” (Anwyl-Irvine et al., 2020)
  • 02.06.2023: “The Future of Women in Psychological Science” (Gruber et al., 2021)
  • 30.06.2023: „Ten simple rules for implementing open and reproducible research practices after attending a training course” (Heise et al., 2023)

Time: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.)

Organizers: Marcel Pauly & Lisa Peuckmann

Winter term 2022/23

Journal Club meetings at university in HS -1.18, A1.3:

  • 11.11.2021: "Thanks Coefficient Alpha, We’ll Take It From Here" (McNeish, 2017)
  • 16.12.2021: “Comparison of Different Response Time Outlier Exclusion Methods: A Simulation Study” (Berger & Kiefer, 2021)
  • 03.02.2022: “Can Psychological Assessment Contribute to a Better World?” (Gallardo-Pujol et al., 2022)

Time: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.)

Organizers: Marcel Pauly & Lisa Peuckmann

Summer term 2022

Journal Club meetings during the summer term 2022:

  • 20.05.2022: "Invisible hands and fine calipers: A call to use formal theory as a toolkit for theory construction" (Robinaugh et al., 2021)
  • 24.06.2022: "Strong public claims may not reflect researchers' private convictions" (van Doorn & Wagenmakers, 2021)

  • 22.07.2022: "Ten simple rules to improve academic work-life balance" (Bartlett et al., 2021)

Time: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.)

Organizers: Lasse Wennerhold & Marco Koch

Winter term 2021/22

Journal Club meetings via video conferences by using MS Teams and the team code udnl60q:

Time: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.)

Organizers: Lasse Wennerhold & Marco Koch

Summer term 2021

Video conference via MS Teams using the code udnl60q

  • 07.05.2021: "Crud (Re)Defined" (Orben & Lakens, 2020)

Time: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.)

Organizers: Lasse Wennerhold & Marco Koch

Winter term 2020/21

Meetings via video conference MS Teams:

  • 04.12.2020: "Promises and perils of experimentation: The mutual internal validity problem“ (Lin, Werner, & Inzlicht, 2020)
  • 29.01.2021: "The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use" (Orben & Przybylski, 2019)

Time: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.)

Organizers: Lasse Wennerhold & Marco Koch

Summer term 2020

Meetings during the summer term 2020

  • 05.06.2020 (video conference via MS Teams): "Why Psychological Assessment Needs to Start Worrying About Model Fit" (Greiff & Heene, 2017)
  • 03.07.2020 (video conference via MS Teams): "The flatland fallacy: Moving beyond low-dimensional thinking" (Jolly & Chang, 2019)

Time: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.)

Organizers: Lasse Wennerhold & Marco Koch

Winter term 2019/20

Meetings during the winter term 2019/20

  • 08.11.2019:  "Choosing Prediction Over Explanation in Psychology: Lessons From Machine Learning" (Yarkoni & Westfall, 2017)
  • 13.12.2019: "Construct Validation in Social and Personality Research: Current Practice and Recommendations" (Flake, Pek, & Hehman, 2017)
  • 31.01.2020: "Academic Research in the 21st Century: Maintaining Scientific Integrity in a Climate of Perverse Incentives and Hypercompetition" (Edwards & Roy, 2017)

Time and venue: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.) (with the opportunity to have lunch together therafter) in building A1 3, room 304 (CiP Pool)

Organizers: Lasse Wennerhold & Marco Koch

Summer term 2019

Meetings during the summer term 2019

  • 26.04.2019: "The Costs of Reproducibilty" (Poldrack, 2019) & "Cargo Cult Science" (Feynman, 1974)
     
  • 24.05.2019: "A Problem in Theory" (Muthukrishna & Henrich, 2019)
     
  • 28.06.2019: "Machine Behaviour" (Rahwan et al., 2019)

Time and venue: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.) (with the opportunity to have lunch together therafter) in building A1 3, room 304 (CiP Pool)

Organizers: Lasse Wennerhold & Marco Koch

Winter term 2018/19

Meetings during the winter term 2018/19

  • 16.11.2018: Gernsbacher, M. (2018). Writing empirical articles – Transparency, reproducibility, clarity, and memorability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 403-414. doi.org/10.1177/2515245918754485
     
  • 14.12.2018: Watts, T. W., Duncan, G. J., & Quan, H. (2018). Revisiting the Marshmallow Test: A Conceptual Replication Investigating Links Between Early Delay of Gratification and Later Outcomes. Psychological Science, 29(7), 1159–1177.
     
  • 25.01.2019: Nelson, L. D., Simmons, J., & Simonsohn, U. (2018). Psychology's Renaissance. Annual Review of Psychology, 69:511–34. doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-122216-011836

Time and venue: 11:00-12:00 hrs. (s.t.) in building A1 3, room 304 (CiP Pool)

Organizers: Lasse Wennerhold & Marco Koch