📢 RTG is at #CogSci2026 in Rio de Janeiro! Fabian Parth @tamhak.bsky.social Dominik Endres @semihaktepe.bsky.social @danielheck.bsky.social and our alumni @marcelbinz.bsky.social are presenting their research at the conference 🎓 🎉 Congrats to all!

I'm happy to announce that the program of our 4th Marburg climate camp is ready :) Consider stopping by! 🌳 climateconnect.earth/de/projects/...

📢 Our ViolEx 2.0 paper reached 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ citations 🥳 🎉 Congratulations to all RTG members! 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Yesterday during lunch break I heard that my RTG is on bluesky now // follow @rtg2271.bsky.social 🥳 and, don't ask me how my brain works, but this made me want to make magic the gathering cards based on RTG researchers (there are magic card generators online) I volunteer myself as an example

Doing SDT via GLMMs is probably one of my favorite types of modelling - it was the first, relatively simple, example of doing generative stuff and inferential stuff in the same model, and not the classic two step "get estimates and -then- throw them in an ANOVA".

Daniel Heck@danielheck.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New preprint by @semihaktepe.bsky.social 🎉 We compare ANOVA/SDT/GLMM for binary judgments in 20 datasets of the truth effect. #lme4 Main conclusion: "GLMMs are a theoretically sound and practically robust method and thus superior for analyzing binary judgments in social and cognitive psychology.”

I remember being confused by always having to aggregate data (to means, counts, etc) in grad school. I think we've gotten much better at that with multilevel models etc, and here's another paper making this point well about analysing binary judgment data.

Daniel Heck@danielheck.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New preprint by @semihaktepe.bsky.social 🎉 We compare ANOVA/SDT/GLMM for binary judgments in 20 datasets of the truth effect. #lme4 Main conclusion: "GLMMs are a theoretically sound and practically robust method and thus superior for analyzing binary judgments in social and cognitive psychology.”

New preprint by @semihaktepe.bsky.social 🎉 We compare ANOVA/SDT/GLMM for binary judgments in 20 datasets of the truth effect. #lme4 Main conclusion: "GLMMs are a theoretically sound and practically robust method and thus superior for analyzing binary judgments in social and cognitive psychology.”

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Analyzing Binary Judgments: A Comparison of ANOVA, Signal Detection Theory, and Generalized Linear Mixed Models in the Context of the Illusory Truth Effect: https://osf.io/xn397

“Overall, GLMMs are a theoretically sound and practically robust method and thus superior for analyzing binary judgments in social and cognitive psychology.” nice work, @semihaktepe.bsky.social @danielheck.bsky.social

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Analyzing Binary Judgments: A Comparison of ANOVA, Signal Detection Theory, and Generalized Linear Mixed Models in the Context of the Illusory Truth Effect: https://osf.io/xn397

Actually, we recently spooked away some ghosts with warnings and other scary things (with @semihaktepe.bsky.social)

New paper by my PhD student @semihaktepe.bsky.social now published 🚀 "Revisiting the effect of discrepant perceptual fluency on truth judgments" tinyurl.com/2eepue5y --> Two experiments & a meta-analysis indicate that high visual contrast does not lead to higher truth judgments.

How does plausibility shape the truth effect? In our new paper with @danielheck.bsky.social, we propose a Bayesian model specifying how repetition and plausibility jointly influence binary truth judgments in light of nonlinear transformations. 🔓 Read it for free: rdcu.be/eccDv

Counterfactual Reasoning in Children: Evidence from an Eye-Tracking Study with Turkish-Speakers: http://osf.io/e95wp_v1/

Revisiting the Effect of Discrepant Perceptual Fluency on Truth Judgments: http://osf.io/rcehz_v1/

New preprint by my PhD student @semihaktepe.bsky.social: Revisiting the Effect of Discrepant Perceptual Fluency on Truth Judgments osf.io/preprints/ps... We could not replicate the effect that higher color contrast results in higher truth judgments in two online experiments (N=98 and N=294).

We have a new reproduction. Siepe et al. reproduce: "A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of the acoustic features of infant-directed speech" by Cox et al. @naturehumbehav.bsky.social. Full report below.

We (matzekloft.bsky.social, Semih Aktepe, @danielheck.bsky.social) recently participated in a robustness reproduction of articles in Nature Human Behaviour. It was a nice learning experience to check the reproducibility of others' code and to think about useful additional robustness analyses

Riccardo Fusaroli@fusaroli.eurosky.social · 2y ago

Our paper on the acoustic features of infant directed speech published on @naturehumbehav.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1038/s415... w @chrismmcox.bsky.social) was assessed for reproducibility and robustness by @bsiepe.bsky.social & co. The experience was pretty amazing: impressive effort, 1/

New preprint by my PhD student Semih Aktepe 🥳 Modeling the Link between the Plausibility of Statements and the Truth Effect osf.io/preprints/ps... - formalization of simulation-based model - nonlinear scale transformations & interactions - Bayesian modeling in Stan