Tobias Wingen

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• PostDoc Position at University of Hagen

In the current psychological debate, low replicability of psychological findings is a central topic. While the discussion about the replication crisis has a huge impact on psychological research, we know less about how it impacts public trust in psychology. In this article, we examine whether low replicability damages public trust and how this dama...

A growing number of psychological research findings are initially published as preprints. Preprints are not peer reviewed and thus did not undergo the established scientific quality-control process. Many researchers hence worry that these preprints reach nonscientists, such as practitioners, journalists, and policymakers, who might be unable to dif...

A year ago, Nature Reviews Psychology asked: „What paper inspired you to enter the field or pursue your current research?”. I am delighted that my response to this question is now published in Nature Reviews Psychology. Free to read at: https://rdcu.be/cNP69

Trust in science is polarized along political lines—but why? We show across a series of highly controlled studies (total N = 2,859) and a large-scale Twitter analysis ( N = 3,977,868) that people across the political spectrum hold stereotypes about scientists’ political orientation (e.g., “scientists are liberal”) and that these stereotypes decisiv...

Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions¹, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process². In April 2020, an influential paper³ proposed 19 policy recommendations (‘claims’) detailing how evidence from behavioural science could contribute to efforts to reduce impacts and end the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we assess 747 pandem...

Drawing the right lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic will be essential for effective future policy responses. One central finding from the past pandemic is that trust in science predicts health-related protection intentions and behaviors, such as social distancing and vaccination. Many researchers and policymakers thus believe that interventions ta...

Understanding mindsets is crucial to understanding coaching behavior. Recent research has demonstrated that growth mindsets have both positive (i.e., increased outcome expectancy) and negative (i.e., increased blame attributions) effects on prosocial behavior. However, little is known about the role of these two opposing effects in work settings, e...

Poverty remains a pressing problem, with social support playing a crucial role in its reduction. Drawing on previous research on health‐related mindsets, we propose that a growth mindset of poverty – that is, believing poverty can be changed – can have both positive and negative effects on helping intentions through increased outcome expectancy and...

The emergence of large-scale replication projects yielding successful rates substantially lower than expected caused the behavioural, cognitive, and social sciences to experience a so-called ‘replication crisis’. In this Perspective, we reframe this ‘crisis’ through the lens of a credibility revolution, focusing on positive structural, procedural a...

The emergence of large-scale replication projects yielding successful rates substantially lower than expected caused the behavioural, cognitive, and social sciences to experience a so-called ‘replication crisis’. In this Perspective, we reframe this ‘crisis’ through the lens of a credibility revolution, focusing on positive structural, procedural a...

In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness and reproducibility of research, characterized by increased interest and promotion of open and transparent research practices. While progress has been positive, there is a lack of consideration about how this approach can be embedded into undergradu...

Psychological scientists increasingly study web data, such as user ratings or social media postings. However, whether research relying on such web data leads to the same conclusions as research based on traditional data is largely unknown. To test this, we (re)analyzed three data sets, thereby comparing web data with laboratory and online survey da...

Despite decades of mindset research, we know relatively little about their interpersonal consequences, especially regarding helping behavior. We thus investigated potential interpersonal consequences (blame, outcome expectancy, and helping intentions) in a context where helping is crucial: mindsets of poverty. We conducted three experiments investi...

Public trust in science is polarized along political lines. Conservatives trust scientists and their findings less than do liberals – but why? Here, we show that people across the political spectrum hold stereotypes about scientists' political orientation (e.g., "scientists are liberal"), compare that to their own political orientation, and only tr...

Social and behavioral science research proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic, reflecting the substantial increase in influence of behavioral science in public health and public policy more broadly. This review presents a comprehensive assessment of 742 scientific articles on human behavior during COVID-19. Two independent teams evaluated 19 sub...

How do media reports about the Covid-19 pandemic influence our mood? Building on the social comparison theory, we predicted that reading negative news affecting a similar group would result in an impaired mood. In contrast, reading negative news about a dissimilar group should lead to an improved mood. To test this, 150 undergraduate students read...

A better understanding of the public attitude towards science could be crucial to tackle the spread of mis- and disinformation related to the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. We here contribute to this understanding by conceptualising and analysing the attitude toward science as a psychological network. For this analysis, we utilised cross-sectional d...

Psychological scientists increasingly study web data, such as user ratings or social media postings. However, whether research relying on such web data leads to the same conclusions as research based on traditional data is largely unknown. To test this, we (re)analyzed three datasets, thereby comparing web data with lab and online survey data. We c...

In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness, and reproducibility of research, characterized by higher standards of scientific evidence, increased interest in open practices, and promotion of transparency. While progress has been positive, there is a lack of consideration about how this approa...

Open scholarship has transformed research, and introduced a host of new terms in the lexicon of researchers. The ‘Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Teaching’ (FORRT) community presents a crowdsourced glossary of open scholarship terms to facilitate education and effective communication between experts and newcomers.

Das Positionspapier von Brachem et al. (2022) liefert einen wertvollen Beitrag zum Umgang mit der Replikationskrise und verwandten Themen in der Lehre. Eine zentrale Anregung des Positionspapiers, nämlich die Replikationskrise verstärkt in der Lehre zu thematisieren, möchten wir in diesem Kommentar kritisch beleuchten. Wir stimmen zu, dass Kenntnis...

Some people believe that their own health is rather malleable and can be changed (incremental theory), whereas other people believe that their health is relatively fixed (entity theory). Previous research suggests that individuals who hold a strong incremental theory of health have more positive health‐related attitudes and engage in more health‐pr...

A better understanding of the public attitude towards science could be crucial to tackle the spread of mis- and disinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We here contribute to this understanding by conceptualizing and analyzing the attitude toward science as a psychological network. For this analysis, we utilized data from a Germa...

Romantic relationships are changing in Western culture. The recent rise of alternative relationship models called consensual non-monogamies (CNMs) has drawn attention toward them. Western cultures largely stereotype and stigmatize CNMs, portraying their practitioners (among other aspects) as psychologically distinct from monogamous practitioners. L...

A growing number of psychological research findings are initially published as preprints. Preprints are not peer-reviewed and thus did not undergo the established scientific quality control process. Many researchers hence worry that these preprints reach non-scientists, such as practitioners, journalists, and policymakers, who might be unable to di...

How do media reports about the Covid-19 pandemic influence our mood? Building on the social comparison theory, we predicted that reading negative news affecting a similar group would result in an impaired mood. In contrast, reading negative news about a dissimilar group should lead to improved mood. To test this, 150 undergraduate students read pos...

“The powerful are immoral”! Across four preregistered studies (total N = 2,744), we explored the role of perceived autonomy (control over own resources) and perceived influence (control over others’ resources) for this belief. In Study 1, perceived autonomy and influence mediated the effect of power on expected immorality. Likewise, directly manipu...

The United Nations have described the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as the worst global crisis since the second world war. Behavioral protective measures, such as good hand hygiene and social distancing, may strongly affect infection and fatality rates worldwide. In two studies (total N = 962), we aimed to identify central pre...

Why does social class affect Quality of Life? We simultaneously investigated two novel possible explanations: Because a high social class is associated with increased control over resources (i.e., power) or because a high social class is associated with higher respect and esteem in the eyes of others (i.e., status). To test these explanations, we c...

The United Nations have described the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as the worst global crisis since the second world war. Behavioral protective measures, such as good hand hygiene and social distancing, may strongly affect infection and fatality rates worldwide. In two studies (total N = 962), we aimed to identify central pre...

In three studies (N = 1,055), we investigated the determinants and consequences of the perception of infection risks during the early and later outbreak of COVID-19 in Germany. Individuals’ perceived COVID-19 infection risk was reasonably in line with experts’ assessment but changed over time. The probability of the rare event of getting severely s...

In the current psychological debate, low replicability of psychological findings is a central topic. While the discussion about the replication crisis has a huge impact on psychological research, we know less about how it impacts public trust in psychology. In this paper, we examine whether low replicability damages public trust and how this damage...

Romantic relationships are changing in Western culture. The recent rises of alternative relationship models called consensual non-monogamies (CNMs) like polyamory, relational anarchy or open relationships have drawn some attention towards them. However, the psychological characteristics of non-monogamous practitioners have not yet been investigated...

Romantic relationships are changing in Western culture. The recent rises of alternative relationship models called consensual non-monogamies (CNMs) like polyamory, relational anarchy or open relationships have drawn some attention towards them. However, the psychological characteristics of non-monogamous practitioners have not yet been investigated...

The first annual report of the Policy Research Group in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. This report is written with support from the Junior Researcher Programme.

The current status of the project presented on the Junior Researcher Programme Conference 2016 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Abstract: Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is typically assessed using retrospective paper-and-pencil instruments. Cognitive biases associated with recall and mood may undermine the validity and reliability of this asse...

Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is a construct of increasing importance in modern healthcare, and has typically been assessed using retrospective instruments. While such measures have been shown to have predictive utility for clinical outcomes, several cognitive biases associated with human recall and current mood state may undermine their v...

Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is increasingly important in healthcare provision and is typically assessed using paper-and-pencil questionnaires. While HRQoL has predictive utility for clinical outcomes, the process of collecting, analyzing and storing paper-and-pencil data in clinical practice is effortful. Thus, more feasible measurement...

Presentation at the 9th European Summer School 2015. The presentation is the starting point of a 13 month-long research project on "Using smartphone apps for assessing quality of life", led by Angelos Kassianos.