Research interests | Publications | Academic distinctions

Research interests

Smallest subjectively experienced difference • Positive and negative affect/mood • Meta-science • Judgment and decision making

Publications

• Anvari, F., Kievit, R., Lakens, D., Pennington, C. R., Przybylski, A. K., Tiokhin, L., Wiernik, B.M., & Orben, A. (in press). Not all effects are indispensable: Psychological science requires verifiable lines of reasoning for whether an effect matters. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Preprint.

• Anvari, F., Verdeș, D. D., & Marchiori, D. (2022). Percent framing attenuates the magnitude effect in a preference-matching task of intertemporal choice. PloS one, 17(1), Article e0262620. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262620

• Anvari, F., & Marchiori, D. (2021). Priming exploration across domains: does search in a spatial environment influence search in a cognitive environment?. Royal Society Open Science, 8(8), Article 201944. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201944 

• Anvari, F., & Lakens, D. (2021). Using anchor-based methods to determine the smallest effect size of interest. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 96, Article 104159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104159

• Anvari, F., Olsen, J., Yiu, H. W., & Feldman, G. (2021). Misprediction of affective outcomes due to different evaluation modes: Replication and extension of two distinction bias experiments by Hsee and Zhang (2004). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 96, Article 104052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104052

• IJzerman, H., Lewis Jr, N. A., Przybylski, A. K., Weinstein, N., DeBruine, L., Ritchie, S. J., ... Anvari, F. (2020). Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy. Nature Human Behaviour. [preprint]

• Anvari, F. & Lakens, D. (2019). The replicability crisis and public trust in psychological science. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2019.1684822

• Anvari, F., Wenzel, M., Woodyatt, L., & Haslam, S. A. (2019). The social psychology of whistleblowing: An integrated model. Organizational Psychology Review, 9(1), 41-67. [preprint]

• Lakens, D., Adolfi, F. G., Albers, C. J., Anvari, F., Apps, M. A. J., Argamon, S. E. … Zwaan, R. A. (2018). Justify your alpha: A response to “redefine statistical significance”. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(3), 168. [final print view] [pre-print]

• Wenzel, M., Anvari, F., De Vel-Palumbo, M., & Bury, S. (2017). Collective apology, hope, and forgiveness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 72, 75-87.

Academic distinctions

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship MEANINGFEEL Just noticeable differences in affect: Estimating the minimum changes in positive and negative affect that meaningfully impact people’s subjective experience of emotions, awarded by the European Commission, 2021

• Seedcorn Grant The initial elevation bias: Its robustness, magnitude, and a potential mechanism, awarded by European Association of Social Psychology, 2021

• Pre-registered Grant Study on The Replicability Crisis and Public Trust in Psychological Science, awarded by European Association of Social Psychology, 2019

• Australian Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Stay in Netherlands to study the teplicability crisis and public trust in psychological science, 2018