Bio

Jelte Wicherts (1976) is full professor in methodology and chair of the Department of Methodology and Statistics at the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He studies scientific practices and methods to identify their weak spots in order to strengthen science. He is predominantly a meta-researcher and is interested in a wide range of topics related to individual differences in intelligence, group differences in IQ, errors with statistics, reproducibility, publication bias, p-hacking, transparency, and psychological measurement. 

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  1. Type D personality as a risk factor for adverse outcome in patients w…

    Lodder, P., Wicherts, J. M., Antens, M., Albus, C., Bessonov, I. S., Condén, E., Dulfer, K., Gostoli, S., Grande, G., Hedberg, P., Herrmann-Lingen, C., Jaarsma, T., Koo, M., Lin, P., Lin, T-K., Meyer, T., Pushkarev, G., Rafanelli, C., Raykh, O. I., ... Kupper, N. (2023). Type D personality as a risk factor for adverse outcome in patients with cardiovascular disease: An individual patient data meta-analysis. Psychosomatic Medicine, 85(2), 188-202.
  2. The process of replication target selection in psychology - What to c…

    Pittelkow, M-M., Field, S. M., Isager, P. M., van't Veer, A. E., Anderson, T., Cole, S. N., Dominik, T., Giner-Sorolla, R., Gok, S., Heyman, T., Jekel, M., Luke, T. J., Mitchell, D. B., Peels, R., Pendrous, R., Sarrazin, S., Schauer, J. M., Specker, E., Tran, U. S., ... van Ravenzwaaij, D. (2023). The process of replication target selection in psychology: What to consider? Royal Society Open Science, 10(2), Article 210586.
  3. Are speeded tests unfair? - Modeling the impact of time limits on the…

    Stoevenbelt, A. H., Wicherts, J. M., Flore, P. C., Phillips, L. A. T., Pietschnig, J., Verschuere, B., Voracek, M., & Schwabe, I. (2023). Are speeded tests unfair? Modeling the impact of time limits on the gender gap in mathematics. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 83(4), 684-709.
  4. The Meta-Plot - A graphical tool for interpreting the results of a me…

    Van Assen, M. A. L. M., Van Den Akker, O. R., Augusteijn, H. E. M., Bakker, M., Nuijten, M. B., Olsson-Collentine, A., Stoevenbelt, A. H., Wicherts, J. M., & Van Aert, R. C. M. (2023). The Meta-Plot: A graphical tool for interpreting the results of a meta-analysis. Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology, 231(1), 65-78.
  5. How do psychology researchers interpret the results of multiple repli…

    van den Akker, O. R., Wicherts, J. M., Alvarez, L. D., Bakker, M., & van Assen, M. A. L. M. (2023). How do psychology researchers interpret the results of multiple replication studies? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 30(4), 1609-1620.

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