Today we are hosting a guest blog by Pieter and Tom, who tell us about their round-shaped and spiky experiences working…
Let’s hypothesize that eating ice cream cured depression, and that this effect was mediated by the sensory pleasure derived from…
Update 2022: There is now a manuscript that discusses the topic of this blog post in more depth, see preprint…
Earlier this year, I went through an academic existential crisis in which I questioned whether the field of research I’m…
Accounting for mistakes in my scientific work and announcing a bug bounty program. A story of few papers and many…
Next, we tested whether studies with bigger sample sizes are cited more. More and more, it’s looking as if citations…
I looked at citations as an indicator of research quality by dusting off two analyses that I did quickly a…
If you read this blog, you probably know Malte Elson. If you know Malte, you probably know that he has…
This blog post is going to argue that science would profit if we all suffered more (not less!) from impostor…
Expra. Every German psychologist did an Expra during their undergrad, usually in their 2nd or 3rd semester. Expra is short…