Publications

The Replication Database: Documenting the replicability of psychological science

In psychological science, replicability—repeating a study with a new sampleachieving consistent results (Parsons et al., 2022)—is …
Lukas Röseler, Leonard Kaiser, Christopher Albert Doetsch, Noah Klett, Christian Seida, Astrid Schütz, Balazs Aczel, Nadia Adelina, Valeria Agostini, Samuel Alarie, Nihan Albayarak-Aydemir, Alaa Aldoh, Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Flávio Azevedo, Bradley James Baker, Charlotte Lilian Barth, Julia Beitner, Cameron Brick, Hilmar Brohmer, Subramanya Prasad Chandrashekar, Kai Li Chung, Jamie P. Cockcroft, Jamie Cummins, Veronica Diveica, Tsvetomira Dumbalska, Emir Efendic, Mahmoud Elsherif, Thomas Rhys Evans, Gilad Feldman, Adrien Fillon, Nico Förster, Joris Frese, Oliver Genschow, Vaitsa Giannouli, Biljana Gjoneska, Timo Gnambs, Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Christopher James Graham, Helena Hartmann, Clove Haviva, Alina Herderich, Leon Paul Hilbert, Darías Holgado, Ian Hussey, Zlatomira Ilchovska, Tamara Kalandadze, Veli-Matti Karhulahti, Leon Kasseckert, Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens, Alina Koppold, Max Korbmacher, Louisa Kulke, Niclas Kuper, Annalise A. LaPlume, Gavin Leech, Feline Lohkamp, Nigel Mantou Lou, Dermot Lynott, Maximilian Maier, Maria Montefinese, Maria Meier, David Moreau, Kellen Mrkva, Monika Nemcova, Danna Oomen, Julian Packheiser, Shubham Pandey, Frank Papenmeier, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Yuri G. Pavlov, Zoran Pavlović, Charlotte Rebecca Pennington, Merle-Marie Pittelkow, Willemijn Plomp, Paul E. Plonski, Ekaterina Pronizius, Andrew A. Pua, Katarzyna Pypno, Manuel Rausch, Tobias R. Rebholz, Elena Richert, Jan Philipp Röer, Robert M Ross, Kathleen Schmidt, Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Matthias F.J. Sperl, Alvin Tan, J. Lukas Thürmer, Aleksandra Tołopiło, Wolf van Paemel, Leigh Ann Vaughn, Steven Verheyen, Lukas Wallrich, Lucia Weber, Julia Wolska, Mirela Zaneva, Yikang Zhang
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A systematic review and multivariate meta-analysis of the physical and mental health benefits of touch interventions

Receiving touch is of critical importance for human well-being. A large number of studies have shown that touch promotes mental and …
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Stage 1 Programmatic Registered Report: Open Scholarship and Feedback in Applied Research/Understanding the Role of Climate Change in Applied Research: A Qualitative Registered Report

Applied researchers have an important societal role in influencing real-world practice, bridging academic research, theory and …
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Cognitive Control: Exploring the causal role of the rTPJ in empathy for pain mediated by contextual information

Empathy determines our emotional and social lives. Extensive research has recognised the role of the right temporo-parietal junction …
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Open-label placebo treatment does not enhance cognitive abilities in healthy volunteers

The use of so-called ‘smart drugs’ such as modafinil to improve cognitive performance has recently attracted considerable attention. …
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ARIADNE – a scientific navigator to find your way through the resource labyrinth

The use of so-called ‘smart drugs’ such as modafinil to improve cognitive performance has recently attracted considerable attention. …
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A pill as a quick solution: association between painkiller intake, empathy, and prosocial behavior

Previous research has demonstrated a link between the administration of analgesic drugs and the reduction of empathy levels in humans. …
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To respond or not to respond: Exploring empathy-related psychological and structural brain differences between placebo analgesia responders and non-responders

Placebo responsiveness is highly variable across individuals. In the domain of pain, it may range from pronounced hypoalgesia to no …
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Incorporating feminist practices into (psychological) science - the why, the what and the how

Feminism is about challenging power in all its forms. Applying a feminist lens to scientific research brings many advantages, such as …
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The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes

The emergence of large-scale replication projects yielding successful rates substantiallylower than expected caused the behavioural, …
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The effectiveness of preregistration in psychology: Assessing preregistration strictness and preregistration-study consistency

Study preregistration has become increasingly popular in psychology, but itseffectivenessin restrictingpotentially biasingresearcher …
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Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes

In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness and reproducibility of research, …
Madeleine Pownall, Flávio Azevedo, Laura M. König, Hannah R. Slack, Thomas Rhys Evans, Zoe Flack, Sandra Grinschgl, Mahmoud M. Elsherif, Katie A. Gilligan-Lee, Catia M. F. de Oliveira, Biljana Gjoneska, Tamara Kalandadze, Katherine Button, Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, Jenny Terry, Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir, Filip Děchtěrenko, Shilaan Alzahawi, Bradley J. Baker, Merle-Marie Pittelkow, Lydia Riedl, Kathleen Schmidt, Charlotte R. Pennington, John J. Shaw, Timo Lüke, Matthew C. Makel, Helena Hartmann, Mirela Zaneva, Daniel Walker, Steven Verheyen, Daniel Cox, Jennifer Mattschey, Tom Gallagher-Mitchell, Peter Branney, Yanna Weisberg, Kamil Izydorczak, Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Ann-Marie Creaven, Suzanne L. K. Stewart, Kai Krautter, Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Samuel J. Westwood, Patrícia Arriaga, Meng Liu, Myriam A. Baum, Tobias Wingen, Robert M. Ross, Aoife O'Mahony, Agata Bochynska, Michelle Jamieson, Myrthe Vel Tromp, Siu Kit Yeung, Martin R. Vasilev, Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Leticia Micheli, Markus Konkol, David Moreau, James E. Bartlett, Kait Clark, Gwen Brekelmans, Theofilos Gkinopoulos, Samantha L. Tyler, Jan Philipp Röer, Zlatomira G. Ilchovska, Christopher R. Madan, Olly Robertson, Bethan J. Iley, Samuel Guay, Martina Sladekova, Shanu Sadhwani, FORRT
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Your pain in my brain

Pain is ubiquitous in life — we feel it when we accidentally hit our elbow on the door frame while rushing to the next meeting. But we …
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The nocebo effect: The placebo’s “evil twin”

Treatments are designed to help people fight diseases or their symptoms, and they are supposed to make us feel better. However, some …
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Placebo analgesia reduces costly prosocial helping to lower another’s pain

Painkiller administration lowers pain empathy, but whether this also reduces prosocial behavior is unknown. In this preregistered …
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Bridging neurodiversity and open scholarship: How shared values can guide best practices for research integrity, social justice, and principled education

In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness, and reproducibility of research, …
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A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms

Open scholarship has transformed research, and introduced a host of new terms in the lexicon of researchers. The ‘Framework for Open …
Parsons, Sam, Azevedo, Flávio, Guay, Samuel, Norris, Emma, O’Mahony, Aoife, Todorovic, Ana, Garcia-Pelegrin, Elias, Lazić, Aleksandra, Robertson, Olly, Valentini, Beatrice, McCuaig, Joanne, Collins, Elizabeth, Vanek, Norbert, Kovacs, Marton, Rishi, Sonia, Jaquiery, Matt, Agostini, Valeria, Izydorczak, Kamil, Ashcroft-Jones, Sarah, Hartmann, Helena, Ingham, Madeleine, Yamada, Yuki, Dechterenko, Filip, Albayrak-Aydemir, Nihan, Yang, Yu-Fang, Zaneva, Mirela, Mounce, Ross, Kalandadze, Tamara, Li, Wanyin, Xiao, Qinyu, Yeung, Siu Kit, Liu, Meng, Kekecs, Zoltan, Bret, Amélie, Ballou, Nick, Dumbalska, Tsvetomira, Arendt, Beatrix, Laverty, Catherine, Moreau, David, Reid, Graham, Garcia-Garzon, Eduardo, Verheyen, Steven, Micheli, Leticia, Bret, Brice Beffara, Szaszi, Barnabas, Weinmann, Markus, Lecuona, Oscar, Schmidt, Birgit, Mendes, Ana Barbosa, Francis, Shannon, Paul, Mariella, Grose-Hodge, Magdalena, Spitzer, Lisa, Pownall, Madeleine, Wingen, Tobias, Terry, Jenny, AlDoh, Alaa, Hart, Alexander, Feldman, Gilad, Pomareda, Christina, Krautter, Kai, Aczel, Balazs
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Emotional ego- and altercentric biases in high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence

Self-other distinction is a crucial aspect of social cognition, as it allows us to differentiate our own mental and emotional states …
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Introducing a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT)

Dramatic changes to the transparency, rigor, reproducibility and replicability of research practices have occurred in the last decade. …
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Placebo analgesia does not reduce empathy for naturalistic depictions of others’ pain in a somatosensory specific way

The shared representations account postulates that sharing another’s pain recruits underlying brain functions also engaged during …
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Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers

Open Science aims to improve the rigour, robustness, and reproducibility of psychological research. Despite resistance from some …
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Neural correlates of interpersonal space permeability and flexibility in autism spectrum disorder

Interpersonal space can be defined as a safety zone immediately surrounding our body, which allows us to feel comfortable during social …
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Another's pain in my brain - No evidence that placebo analgesia affects the sensory-discriminative component in empathy for pain

The shared representations account of empathy suggests that sharing other people’s emotions relies on neural processes similar to …
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