Methods-Workshop
We are happy to announce that we could win Martin Schnürch from the University of Mannheim for our methods workshop:
Martin Schnürch
About:
Postdoc at the RTG Statistical Modeling in Psychology (SMiP)
University of Mannheim, Germany
Research interests:
- Research Methods
- Statistical Modeling of Psychological Processes
- Social Cognition
List of publications:
Link to Google Scholar
The workshop will be on the following topic:
Qualitative Individual Differences
Psychological phenomena are typically understood in reference to the mean: We compare means across conditions and report effect sizes in terms of standardized mean differences. What does the mean actually mean, however, in the face of individual differences? The answer to this question hinges critically on whether individuals differ quantitatively (in the size of individual effects) or qualitatively (in the direction of individual effects). In this workshop, we will discuss the difference between quantitative and qualitative differences and how the distinction is of relevance to all subfields of psychology. In the context of concrete examples from social-cognitive research (e.g., Stroop effect and truth effect) and the statistical programing environment R, we will look at techniques to address and answer the question. After the workshop, participants will have acquired basic knowledge to investigate (and test for) qualitative individual differences in the context of their own research.
Prerequisites: Working knowledge of R, laptop with R/RStudio installed