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SOCRATES Workshop: Trust and Credibility in the Psychological Sciences – Beyond Replication
19 Jun
19. Jun. 2025 20. Jun. 2025
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SOCRATES Workshop: Trust and Credibility in the Psychological Sciences – Beyond Replication

SOCRATES Associate Fellow Uljana Feest is hosting a workshop on "Trust and Credibility in the Psychological Sciences: Beyond Replication". The workshop will take place on the campus of Leibniz University Hannover on 19-20 June 2025.

This event is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) – Project 470816212/KFG43.

Schedule
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Day 1 – June 19th, 2025

11:15 – 11:30

Arrival and Registration

11:30 – 12:00 

Uljana Feest (Leibniz University Hannover)

Welcome and Introduction: Trust and Credibility in the Psychological Sciences: Beyond Replication

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (catered)
13:00 - 14:00

 Fiona Fidler (University of Melbourne)

Paul Meehl’s Conception of Metascience

14:05 - 15:05

Mario Gollwitzer (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)

Normative and Empirical Metascience are (and should Remain) Two Different Things

 15:10-16:10

David Peterson (Purdue University)

How to Stop Thinking: DARPA and the Formalization of Evaluation in AI Research

16:10 – 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:25

Round Table Discussion

Discussants: Anna Alexandrova (University of Cambridge) and Bart Penderson (Maastricht University)

17:30 - 18:30

Alexander Wendt (Sigmund Freud University Vienna)

Theory and Modelling in Psychology: Some Current Perspectives

19:00 

Dinner at Boca Chica, Oeltzenstraße 12, 30169 Hannover

 

Day 2 – June 20th, 2025

09:30 - 09:45

Coffee and Tea

09:45 – 10:45

Freek Oude Maatman (Radboud University Nijmegen & University of Groningen)

Dead or Live: The Psychological Relevance of Realism and Anti-Realism for Validity and Evidence

10:55 – 11:55

Berna Devezer & Erkan Buzbas (both University of Idaho)

Replication: What it is, what it is not

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch (catered)
13:00 - 14:00 Suilin Lavelle (University of Edinburgh)
Diversifying Perspectives in Academic Psychology
14:05 – 15:05 Uljana Feest (Leibniz University Hannover) & John Carson (University of Michigan)
Representativeness and Ecological Design in Psychology
15:05 – 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 Final Discussion | Inputs from discussants Vlasta Sikimić (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Patrick S. Forscher (The Busara Lab Nairobi)
from 16:30 Drinks at Biergarten Dornröschen, In den Kämpen 54, 30167 Hannover

 

Workshop Information

Getting to the workshop

The workshop will take place on the campus of Leibniz University Hannover at the Conti-Hochhaus (Building 1502), in room 1401 (Student Workspace, 14th floor).Click on the following link for the building locationKönigsworther Platz 1, 30167 Hannover.

The closest airports are Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg, and Berlin; the closest train station is Hannover Central Station (Hannover Hauptbahnhof). We at SOCRATES have taken a climate pledge and thus would like to encourage you to travel by train if at all possible, or otherwise to choose a flight with minimal stopovers by an eco-conscious airline.

See here for directions to Leibniz University Hannover by car, public transport, and plane.

Hotels

Click here to download a list of hotels in Hannover city.

Lunch

Lunch is free of charge for registered participants. All food is vegetarian or vegan. Several of the dishes are also gluten-free. Please see the menu for more information on the day.

Conference Dinner

The workshop dinner (self-paid) on June 19th at 19:00. The dinner location is Boca Chica, Oeltzenstraße 12, 30169 Hannover.

Accessibility

The building and workshop room are wheelchair-accessible; there are lifts to the 14th floor. Follow the signs from the workshop room to the accessible toilet on the 13th floor.

Event organiser/s

This workshop is organised by SOCRATES Associate Fellow Uljana Feest and SOCRATES Coordinator Leonie Wiemeyer (both Leibniz University Hannover). They are kindly supported by SOCRATES team members Ilvie Prince and Kiki Schindler and our wonderful student assistants Timur Bekusanov, Anni Bukowski, Saeid Ebrahimi, Magnus Manthey, Nina Wilhelm, and Jan Wünsch.

Date

19. Jun. 2025 20. Jun. 2025

Contact information

Dr. Leonie Wiemeyer
Institut für Philosophie / SOCRATES
Lange Laube 32
30159 Hannover
Tel.: +49 160 9247 0508
leonie.wiemeyer@philos.uni-hannover.de

Location

Leibniz University Hannover
Building: 1502
Room: 1401
Student Workspace
Königsworther Platz 1
30167 Hannover
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