Martin Schweinsberg

Martin Schweinsberg

Latest — Dec 6, 2022

New research problem validity paper (forthcoming in Perspectives on Psychological Science)

My coauthors Stefan Thau (INSEAD), Madan Pillutla (Indian School of Business) and I wrote a new paper called"Research Problem Validity in Primary Research: Precision and Transparency in Characterizing Past Knowledge". The article identifies a major issue in the field of psychological science: the lack of precision and transparency in

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New negotiation paper published in Collabra: Psychology

My co-authors Johann Majer, Hong Zhang, and Roman Trötschel and I are very excited that our paper entitled "Conflict strength: Measuring the tension between cooperative and competitive incentives in experimental negotiation tasks " has been published open access at Collabra: Psychology [https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra]. Majer Schweinsberg Zhang Trotschel 2022

National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow

I just had the most amazing experience at the National Academy of Sciences' 32nd Kavli Symposium. I was one of three speakers in the session on "Fairness, accountability and transparency in data science" and had the pleasure to present some of my work on analyst analytics and the psychology of

Multiverse analysis: Exploring the entire universe of analyses

You have your data, you did your analysis, you have some results – and yet you’re not sure: could the results have been different? What if you choose a slightly different analytical technique? What if you added a covariate, limited the sample, or measured a variable differently? Maybe you’re

Award-winning case available for free!

We were delighted to learn that our “Dual Career Case” has won the “Women in Business” category in this year’s EFMD Global Case Competition [https://blog.efmdglobal.org/2021/04/19/the-2020-case-writing-competition-winners/] . Lara Bekhazi (INSEAD), Horacio Falcao (INSEAD), Eric Luis Uhlmann (INSEAD), and myself (ESMT Berlin) wrote this negotiation

Crowdsourcing data analysis paper coming out in OBHDP (open access)

We are happy to report that our paper entitled “Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis” is forthcoming at Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. We examine both paths taken and not taken by multiple analysts who reported radically

Ph.D. Course: Crowdsourcing Science

The results of many published studies across many scientific domains are not easily reproduced by independent laboratories. For example, an initiative by Bayer Healthcare to replicate 67 pre-clinical studies led to a reproducibility rate of 20-25% (Prinz et al., 2011), and researchers at Amgen were only able to replicate 6

Ph.D. Course: Cooperation and Competition

Cooperation and competition are fundamental aspects of social life. This course draws on literatures in social psychology and OB related to this basic tension. You will learn about the origins of cooperation and competition (Session 1), and about evolutionary psychology as a theoretical lens through which to understand cooperation and