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Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips elected to the steering committee of the Society for Computation in Psychology

Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips was elected to the steering committee of the Society for Computation in Psychology for the period of 2021-2024. He was the society’s first non-North American president in 2006 and has frequently served on its governing structures.


Dr. Esther Kaufmann joins the board of Judgment and Decision Making as a Consulting Editor

iScience member Esther Kaufmann joins the board of Judgment and Decision Making as a Consulting Editor.

Judgment and Decision Making is the open-access journal of the Society of Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) and the European Association for Decision Making (EADM).

Congratulations from the whole iScience team!


iScience symposium accepted to the #SCiP2021 conference

Exciting news: Our 📝 symposium on Internet-based research was accepted for the #SCiP2021 conference 🗣 by the Society for Computation in Psychology! 🥳 The event will be online on November 4th, 2021 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central Daylight Time, with the symposium running from 2 to 3PM! Join us & save the date! ❤️https://computationinpsych.com/conference/

 


Public Keynote by Prof. Dr. Anja Göritz (University of Freiburg)

As part of our 4th Summer School on Internet-based Data Collection and Analysis, Prof. Dr. Anja Göritz (University of Freiburg) will give a public keynote (“Collecting Data in Online Panels and Crowdsources”) at the University of Konstanz: It will take place Wednesday, September 15th 2021,5:00 PM in the A 701 room. Abstract:

Does the way of conducting a web-based study pay off in terms of obtaining more and/or better responses by study participants? In the talk, I examine the effects of offering different types of rewards to potential respondents on data quantity and quality. The rewards I look at are study results, donations to charity, bank transfers, loyalty points and payments via PayPal. Moreover, I talk about effects due to the season of year in which a study is conducted, the weekday when sending out invitations to a study to potential participants, the use of reminders and the length of a study. Finally, the talk compares online panels and crowdsources in terms of obtaining more and/or better responses when used as a pool to recruit respondents for web-based studies.