Research at ZPID

Since the end of 2024, the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) has filled three junior professorships and reorganized its research department. ZPID is now presenting its topics and teams online.

ZPID now has three overarching research areas: Science Acceptance, Psychological Metascience and Big Data in Psychology. The Science Acceptance area investigates how people think about science and how they evaluate researchers and scientific evidence. This area includes the team led by Junior Professor Dr. Marlene Altenmüller – the Science Reception Lab – and the team led by Director Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg in his Social Influence Lab. In the area of Psychological Metascience, Junior Professor Dr. Kinga Bierwiaczonek and her team at the Metascience Lab synthesize the results of psychological research, investigate its robustness, and how these results are affected by different biases. Finally, the Big Data in Psychology area investigates how theory-driven research can improve Big Data and these methods can provide novel answers to psychological questions. Here, Junior Professor Dr. Frederic Hopp, and his Moral Computing Lab place a particular focus on moral judgments of humans and artificial intelligence.

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