News
from the Professorship for General Psychology II
Courses in the winter semester
In the winter semester, the module “Theoretical Foundations of Empirical Psychology” is offered on the Bachelor’s programme in School Psychology. The Master’s module “Cognitive Psychology: Foundations” comprises two courses: “Psychology of Morality” taught by Prof. Dr Zehetleitner and “Cognitive Modelling” taught by Dr Veronika Zilker.
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Veronika Zilker as our new Academic Councillor from 1. October 2023
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Veronika Zilker as our new Academic Councillor at the Chair of General Psychology II from 1. October 2023. Veronika most recently conducted research and taught as a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Behavioural Research Methods at the Technical University of Munich. From 2016 to 2022, she worked first as a PhD student and then as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.
In her research, Veronika investigates how people make decisions under risk and uncertainty, and what role distortions in information processing and attentional processes play in this. To this end, she employs a wide range of experimental and formal methods, such as eye-tracking, simulation studies and cognitive modelling. Her research has been recognised, amongst other honours, with the prestigious Heinz Heckhausen Prize from the German Psychological Society.
As the new Academic Councillor at the Chair of General Psychology II, Veronika is particularly keen to pass on her enthusiasm for formal methods to her students. To this end, she will be offering a course from the coming winter semester 2023/24 onwards, in which MSc Psychology students can gain an initial insight into the field of cognitive modelling.
New paper published
Simultaneous modeling of choice, confidence, and response time in visual perception by Sebastian Hellmann, Michael Zehetleitner und Manuel Rausch now published in Psychological Review.
Get the accepted manuscript here.
New pre-print about how to quantify metacognition
by Manuel Rausch and Michael Zehetleitner: Evaluating false positive rates of standard and hierarchical measures of metacognitive accuracy
New Project
Our project Moral foundations and vaccination against Covid-19, funded by the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID), investigates the relationship between moral values and adults’ decisions to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
New DFG-Project about replication in cognitive modelling
Our project Cognitive modelling: Blessing or curse for replication in Psychology investigates if research in Psychology based on cognitive modeling can be replicated. The project is part of the priority program META-REP: A Meta-scientific Program to Analyse and Optimise Replicability in the Behavioral, Social, and Cognitive Sciences funded by the German Research Foundation.
