After receiving my PhD in social psychology in 2010 I have worked at the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology. My research focuses on how to design and interpret studies, applied (meta)-statistics, and reward structures in science, and in my empirical research I am interested in conceptual thought and meaning. I love to teach (and was elected as the best teacher of a BA course at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2014, and received the 2017 Leamer-Rosenthal prize for Open Social Science as a Leader in Education), especially about research methods to young scholars (you can follow my free Coursera course here). If you would like me to review for your journal, know that I prioritize review requests based on how much the articles adhere to Open Science principles. It would be great if science could be a much more collaborative enterprise (see my TEDx talk on this topic here). Our lab is funded by a VIDI grant from NWO. We aim to improve the reliability and efficiency of psychological science. I'm a member of the TU/e Young Academy of Engineering.

You can access my CV here, Publons reviewer profile here, Google Scholar profile here, my pre-prints here, and my GitHub account here.

Statistics and Methodology

My blog on methods and statistics can be found here, and I regularly teach workshops on methods and statistics to scientists across the globe, science journalists (e.g., Persgroep, NOS), and at data science companies (e.g., Booking.com, Trivago). In the last few years I've developed an interest in the importance of (preferably pre-registered) replications and ways to improve how we interpret and design studies. We can try a little harder to make science as open and robust as possible, and give the tax payer as much value for money as we can. I have written practical primers on effect sizes, sequential analysis, and equivalence tests, I'm considered indirectly useful by Nassim Taleb ;).

Empirical Research

I've examined how people can use concrete information (e.g., spatial distance, brightness differences) to structure their thoughts about more abstract things (e.g., valence, power, time). One of my interests is when such associations might be embodied, and when not, and how to improve the empirical and theoretical grounding of social embodiment. In other studies I have investigated how groups emerge from individuals through movement synchronization. For an overview chapter on the behavioral consequences of movement synchrony, see this. Further interests include the meaning of colors, such as the relation between the valence and brightness of affective pictures, conceptual similarity, but I also like to play around with gadgets, for example to use a smartphone to measure heart rate changes during emotional responses.

The red² lab.

I supervise Chao Zhang who works on behavior change through e-coaching, and Anne Scheel and Peder Isager who have recently started on my VIDI project. Leonid Tiokhin started as a post-doc in 2019. With Elena Mas-Tur I co-supervise the PhD of Andrea Kis.

Below is a picture taken at SIPS 2019 in Rotterdam with lab members and visitors, Chao Zhang, Emma Henderson, Leonid Tiokhin, Peder Isager, Farid Anvari, Jaroslav Gottfried, Tim van der Zee, Oliver Clark, Amy Orben, Noah van Dongen, Sarah Schiavone, Hanne Oberman, Nicholas Coles, Anne Scheel, Arianne-Herrera-Bennet, and Sophia Cruwell.