Research interests | Publications | Academic Distinctions

Research interests

Coherence-based reasoning • Information search • Adaptive toolbox • Learning • Rationality • Methods & statistics

Publications

• Kurdoglu, R. S., Jekel, M., & Ateş, N. Y. (2023). Eristic reasoning: Adaptation to extreme uncertainty. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1004031 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1004031

• Pittelkow, M. M., Field, S. M., Isager, P. M., van’t Veer, A. E., Anderson, T., Cole, S. N., ... & Van Ravenzwaaij, D. (2023). The process of replication target selection in psychology: what to consider?. Royal Society Open Science, 10(2), 210586. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210586

• Scharf, S. E., Jekel, M., & Glöckner, A. (2022). Awareness of option attractiveness increases the attraction search effect: Modeling the awareness effect in an extended iCodes model. Decision, 9, 43-59. https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000162

• Bröder, A., Scharf, S. E., Jekel, M., Glöckner, A., & Franke, N. (2021). Salience effects in information acquisition: No evidence for a top-down coherence influence. Memory & Cognition, 49, 1537-1554. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01188-9 [data and materials on OSF]

• Jekel, M., Fiedler, S., Allstadt Torras, R., Mischkowski, D., Dorrough, A. R., & Glöckner, A. (2020). How to teach open science principles in the undergraduate curriculum — the Hagen Cumulative Science Project. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 19(1), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/1475725719868149

• Nett, T., Dorrough, A. R., Jekel, M., & Glöckner, A. (2020). Perceived biological and social characteristics of a representative set of German first names. Social Psychology, 51(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000383  [data and materials on OSF]

• Jekel, M. (2019). Empirical content as a criterion for evaluating models. Cognitive Processing, 20(2), 273-275. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-019-00913-2

• Glöckner, A., & Jekel, M. (2019). Testing cognitive models by a joint analysis of multiple dependent measures. In M. Schulte-Mecklenbeck et al. (Eds.), Handbook of Process Tracing (2nd Edition)(pp. 356-373). New York: Routledge.

• Betsch, T., Lehmann, A., Jekel, M., Lindow, S., & Glöckner, A. (2018). Children's application of decision strategies in a compensatory environment. Judgment and Decision Making, 13, 514-528.  [pdf]  [data]

• Jekel, M., & Glöckner, A. (2018). How to identify strategy use and adaptive strategy selection: The crucial role of chance correction in weighted compensatory strategies. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31, 265-279. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1983

• Jekel, M., & Glöckner, A. (2018). Meaningful model comparisons have to include reasonable competing models and also all data: A rejoinder to Rieskamp (2018). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31, 289-293. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2076

• Jekel, M., Glöckner, A., & Bröder, A. (2018). A new and unique prediction for cue-search in a parallel-constraint satisfaction network model: The attraction search effect. Psychological Review, 125, 744-768. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000107  [data and materials on OSF]

• Koscholke, J., & Jekel, M. (2017). Probabilistic coherence measures: a psychological study of coherence assessment. Synthese, 194, 1303-1322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0996-6

• Ashby, N. J. S., Jekel, M., Dickert, S., & Glöckner, A. (2016). Finding the right fit: A comparison of process assumptions underlying popular drift-diffusion models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 1982-1993. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000279

• Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349, aac4716. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716  [data and materials on OSF]

• Glöckner, A., Hilbig, B. E., & Jekel, M. (2014). What is adaptive about adaptive decision making? A parallel constraint satisfaction account. Cognition, 133, 641-666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.08.017  [data and materials on OSF]

• Jekel, M., Glöckner, A., Bröder, A., & Maydych, V. (2014). Approximating rationality under incomplete information: Adaptive inferences for missing cue values based on cue-discrimination. Judgment and Decision Making, 9, 129-147.  [pdf]  [data and materials]

• Gollwitzer, M., Rothmund, T., Alt, B., & Jekel, M. (2012). Victim sensitivity and the accuracy of social judgments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 975–984. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167212440887

• Jekel, M., Glöckner, A., Fiedler, S., & Bröder, A. (2012). The rationality of different kinds of intuitive decision processes. Synthese, 189, 147-160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0126-7

• Han, G. , & Jekel, M. (2011). The mediating role of job satisfaction between leader-member exchange and turnover intentions. Journal of Nursing Management, 19, 41-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2834.2010.01184.x

• Jekel, M., Fiedler, S., & Glöckner, A. (2011). Diagnostic task selection for strategy classification in judgment and decision making: Theory, validation, and implementation in R. Judgment and Decision Making, 6, 782-799.  [pdf]  [materials]

• Jekel, M., Nicklisch, A., & Glöckner, A. (2010). Implementation of the Multiple-Measure Maximum Likelihood strategy classification method in R: Addendum to Glöckner (2009) and practical guide for application. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 54-63.  [pdf]  [data and materials]

Academic distinctions

• Grant Replicating failed replications: A validity-based framework for predicting replication success, awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the priority program "META-REP: A meta-scientific programme to analyse and optimise replicability in the behavioural, social, and cognitive sciences", 2022-2025

• Grant Coherence-based reasoning: Modelling integration and search of sequentially presented information, awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 2021-2024

• Junior Start-Up Grant Attraction Search Effect and Social Value Orientation, awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2020-2021