Research Seminar in Past Semesters
Spring Semester 2026
| Date | Time | Place | Speaker | Host |
| 19 February | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Leonie Cloos Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, KU Leuven, Belgium Beyond scores: Challenges and opportunities in intensive longitudinal affect measurement | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 5 March | 17:00-18:00 | Online Zoom | Corey Cusimano School of Management, Yale University, USA People recognize and condone their own morally motivated reasoning | CDS/Maximilian Theisen |
| 12 March | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Melanie Partsch Department of Methodology and Statistics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Why we should not blindly trust fixed cutoffs for model fit indices: Insights from interpretable machine mearning | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 19 March | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Axel Burger GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany Feeling politics day by day: Dynamics of emotions, information search, and decision-making during election campaigns | SP/Melissa Jauch |
| 26 March | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Julien Irmer Psychology Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany From nonparametric model selection to model-implied simulation-based power estimation: Towards an adaptive, machine-learning-inspired framework for complex structural equation models and beyond | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 9 April | 15:00-16:00 | Online Zoom | Peter Kvam Cognition & Decision Modeling Lab, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, USA Discovering and testing scientific theories using deep learning methods | EP/Amir Rasanen |
| 16 April | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Dirk Wulff Center for Adaptive Rationality, MPI for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Clarifying the structure of psychology using large language models | CDS/Rui Mata |
| 30 April | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Alexander Langenkamp Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Loneliness, marginalization and antifeminist sentiment | SP/Natalia Bogatyreva |
| 7 May | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Nils Köbis Human Understanding of Algorithms and Machines, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany How AI influences human ethical behavior | CDS/Rui Mata |
| 21 May | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Anna Shevchuk Department of Educational Science, University of Freiburg, Germany How do stereotypes shape teacher judgments? | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 28 May | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Tomáš Jagelka Institute for Applied Microeconomics, University of Bonn, Germany Living large or long? Preference estimates from completed-life stories | EP/Joerg Rieskamp |
Fall Semester 2025
| Date | Time | Place | Speaker | Host |
| 18 September | 12:00-13:00 | 08 | Juliane Kämmer Diagnostic Quality Lab, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Bern Better emergency diagnoses? Understanding human–AI interaction during diagnostic decision-making | CDS/Rui Mata |
| 25 September | 12:00-13:00 | 08 | Jana Kesenheimer PEAK, Social Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Austria Diary studies & ecological momentary assessment in social & environmental psychology | SP/Jakob Schuck |
| 2 October | 12:00-13:00 | 08 | Anna Schnauber-Stockmann Media Structure and Media Effects, Department of Communication, University of Mainz, Germany From situations to structures: Why the situational level matters for understanding media use | DL/Lara Wolfers |
| 16 October | 12:00-13:00 | 08 | Andrew Heathcote Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Moving from statistical to cognitive models of decisions | EP/Joerg Rieskamp |
| 30 October | 12:00-13:00 | 08 | Florian Scharf Department of Psychology, University of Kassel, Germany Going with the trend: a longitudinal perspective on psychological experiments | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 6 November | 12:00-13:00 ONLINE/ZOOM | 08 | Philipp Lorenz-Spreen Center Synergy of Systems (SynoSys), Technical University, Dresden, Germany The complex interplay between social media, human behaviour and democracy | CDS/Rui Mata |
| 13 November | 12:00-13:00 | 08 | Mariek Vanden Abeele Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium Disconnect to reconnect? The science behind digital well-being and disconnection | DL/Lara Wolfers |
| 20 November | 12:00-13:00 | 08 | Clemens Stachl Institute of Behavioral Science, University of St. Gallen Transforming psychological research: Integrating mobile sensing with machine learning for behavioral insights | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 4 December | 12:00-13:00 | 08 | Sebastian Musslick Computational Neurosciences, University of Osnabrück, Germany Automated scientific discovery of mind and behavior | EP/Joerg Rieskamp |
| 11 December | 12:00-13:00 | 08 | Anna Langener Department of Biomedical Data Science, Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, USA Promises and pitfalls of passive (smartphone) measures in psychological research | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
Program: Spring Semester 2025
| Date | Time | Place | Speaker | Host |
| 27 February | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Ezequiel Lopez Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Characterizing similarities and differences in people’s views based on open-ended expressions | CDS/Rui Mata |
| 6 March | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Daniel Auer Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy/European Social Research, Mannheim University, Germany Asparagus! Worker shortages and local immigration support | SP/Elianne Albath |
| 13 March | No research seminar (Basler Fasnacht) | |||
| 20 March | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Marius Rubo Cognitive Psychology, Perception and Research Methods, University of Bern Investigating social interactions using social virtual reality | CDS/Loreen Tisdall |
| 27 March | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Armando Meier Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel What money shouldn’t buy: Aversion to monetary incentives for health behaviors | PSBC/Zahra Rahmani |
| 3 April | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | August Collsiöö Department of Psychology Perception and Cognition, University of Uppsala, Sweden Noise in human judgment is informative: Utilizing error distributions to learn more about the cognitive processing of individuals | EP/Florian Seitz |
| 10 April | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Cornelia Wrzus Institute of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany Age differences in situation perception: Insights from virtual reality studies | CDS/Loreen Tisdall |
| 17 April | No research seminar (Gründonnerstag) | |||
| 24 April | 17:00-18:00 ONLINE | Daphna Oyserman Dornsife Mind & Society Center, University of Southern California, USA Identity-based motivation and making sense of difficulty | SP/Rainer Greifeneder | |
| 1 May | No research seminar (Tag der Arbeit) | |||
| 15 May | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Gaëlle Marinthe University of Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France Rethinking the impact of social identity on collective and political behaviors: The role of secure and defensive social identities | SP/Fanny Lalot |
| 22 May | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Sarah Koch Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 29 May | No research seminar (Auffahrt) | |||
| Date | Time | Place | Speaker | Host |
26 September | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Tanja Lischetzke | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 17 October - ONLINE | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Florian Lange Behavioral Economics and Engineering Group, KU Leuven, Belgium Behavioral paradigms for pro-environmental behavior research | PSBC/Ulf Hahnel |
| 24 October | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Rafael Polania Decision Science Lab, ETH Zürich Rational sensing: from insects to rodents to humans to machines | EP/Sebastian Olschewski |
| TUESDAY 29 October | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Laura Bringmann Psychometrics & Statistics Department, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Improving ESM feedback through better ESM measurement | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 7 November | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Evelien Schat Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, KV Leuven, Belgium Real-time detection of developing mood disorders using statistical process control: Key principles, performance optimization, and applications | SDS/Mirka Henninger |
| 14 November | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Jonas Ludwig Einstein Center Climate Change, Technical University Berlin, Germany Citizens misjudge the emissions reduction potential of climate policy | PSBC/Nina Frings |
| 12 December | 12:00-13:00 | 09 | Anna Thoma Adaptive Rationality, MPI Human Development, Berlin, Germany The evolution of participant diversity in psychological research | CDS/Rui Mata |