Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Felix Speckmann

Research interests

Stereotypes and prejudice • Cognitive Illusions • Intercultural psychology • Category perception • Spatial arrangement • Web scraping • Machine learning

Publications

• Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2024). Illusions of knowledge due to mere repetition. Cognition, 247, 105791. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105791

• Speckmann, F., & Wingen, T. (2023). Same question, different answers?: An empirical comparison of web data and traditional data. Zeitschrift Für Psychologie, 231(1), 30–38. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000515

• Koch, A., Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2022). Q-SpAM: How to efficiently measure similarity in online research. Sociological Methods & Research, 51(3), 1442–1464. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124120914937

• Speckmann, F. (2022). Investigating meaningful consequences as an attenuation strategy for the truth effect and the Moses illusion as examples of cognitive illusions. Doctoral Thesis published at University and City Library of Cologne. https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/55556/

• Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2022). The Moses illusion. In R. F. Pohl (Ed.), Cognitive illusions: Intriguing phenomena in thinking, judgment, and memory (pp. 359-370). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003154730-26

• Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2021). Monetary incentives do not reduce the repetition-induced truth effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-02046-0

• Speckmann, F. (2021). Web scraping: A useful tool to broaden and extend psychological research. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 229(4), 241-244. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000470

• Unkelbach, C. & Speckmann, F. (2021). Mere Repetition Increases Belief in Factually True COVID-19-Related Information. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(2), 241-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2021.02.001

• Speckmann, F. & Unkelbach, C. (2021). Moses, money, and multiple-choice: The Moses Illusion in a multiple-choice format with high incentives. Memory & Cognition, 49, 843-862. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01128-z

• Koch, A., Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2020). Q-SpAM: How to efficiently measure similarity in online research. Sociological Methods and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124120914937

Academic distinctions

• Junior Start-Up Grant Underlying Dimensions of Intercultural Differences (together with Vanessa Clemens and Marina Orifici), granted by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2024

   

• Junior Start-Up Grant The Role of Frequency and Order in Social Devaluation (together with Lea Sperlich (PI)), granted by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2024

   

• Travel Grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2022

   

• Graduate Student Travel Award for the 2022 SPSP Annual Convention, awarded by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2022

   

• Junior Start-Up Grant Incentives increase advisor devaluations (together with Anne Irena Weitzel and Christian Unkelbach), granted by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2021

   

• Junior Researcher Grant Intercultural morality: Resolving conflicting evidence using the CNI model (together with Alexandra Fleischmann (PI) and Bertram Gawronski), granted by the DFG Research Unit Relativity in Social Cognition, 2019

   

• Seedcorn Grant SpAM³-VR: Can Virtual Reality Elucidate Dimensions of Conceptual Space? (together with Jan Crusius (PI), Lisa Blatz, and Alex Koch), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2018-2019

   

• Student Grant Predicting cognition and behavior from Big Data: A machine learning workshop with Professor Danilo Bzdok (together with Alex Koch), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2018

   

• Junior Start-Up Grant SpAM³-VR: Harnessing Virtual Reality to Investigate Dimensions of Social Judgment (together with Jan Crusius (PI), Lisa Blatz, and Alex Koch), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2017

   

• Junior Start-Up Grant SpAM as a pure measure of self-construal (together with Janina Steinmetz), awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2016

   

• Student Exchange Support Program, Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), 2015

   

• Study Abroad Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2013

   

• Undergraduate Fellowship, German National Academic Foundation, 2009-2011