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Program of 3rd Summer School online!

The 3rd Summer School on Internet-based Data Collection and Analysis in Decision Making will kick off September 9 with Registration in room M630 at University of Konstanz (last minute online registration possible at https://iscience.uni-konstanz.de/collaborations/4492-2/). We are looking forward to meeting participants from different countries who will visit Konstanz, and welcome you to take a first peek at what lies ahead (open the program).


2019 Montréal symposium accepted

Our symposium “Methods and topics in Internet-based and Social Media research” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP) has been accepted! See us in Montréal, November 14, 2019.


Press release: A “wordy” Internet research method features recent article by N. Younes and U.-D. Reips

Nadja Younes and Ulf-Dietrich Reips’ recently published article “Guideline for Improving the Reliability of Google Ngram Studies: Evidence from Religious Terms.” PloS One, 14(3): e0213554. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213554 has been featured in a press release.


New article in Methodological Innovations

Item Pool Visualization (IPV) is an illustration system that locates items and item pools (scales) from multiple psychological instruments regarding their commonality and distinguishability along several dimensions of nested radar charts. The application of IPV creates illustrations that represent different item pools by different circles that do not overlap. IPV illustrates a comparison of different structural equation models that are estimated with the same data. It combines the advantages of general and correlated factor models when evaluating psychological instruments. Further, in contrast to other visualization methods, IPV provides an empirically driven categorization of psychological constructs and their subconcepts (facets) that is suited to provide professionals with help in comparing psychometric constructs, questionnaires, and selecting tests.

Dantlgraber, M., Stieger, S., & Reips, U.-D. (in press). Introducing Item Pool Visualization (IPV): A method for investigation of concepts in self-reports and psychometric tests. Methodological Innovations.