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Overview

Klaus Fiedler is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Decision Sciences and Psychology, with a strong focus on General Decision Sciences and Cognitive Neuroscience among other subfields such as Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The research topics covered by Fiedler include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Mental Health Research Topics, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, and Religion, Society, and Development.

Fiedler's recent scholarly output includes papers published in reputable venues such as:

  • "Quo Vadis, Methodology? The Key Role of Manipulation Checks for Validity Control and Quality of Science," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Speed-accuracy trade-offs in sample-based decisions," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Biased preferences through exploitation: How initial biases are consolidated in reward-rich environments," 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • "Major Theories in Social Psychology," 2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology
  • "Forming impressions from self-truncated samples of traits−interplay of Thurstonian and Brunswikian sampling effects," 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

In addition to journal articles, Fiedler has authored books published by notable houses, including:

  • "For the Sake of Christian Marriage, Abolish Church Weddings," 2024, Luviri Press eBooks
  • "Heuristics and Biases," 2021, The MIT Press

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Fiedler's work, with frequent co-authors including Johannes Prager, Linda McCaughey, Peter Juslin, Jerker Denrell, and Johannes Ziegler.

Fiedler has published frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology General, and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Best Publications

  • The cognitive functions of linguistic categories in describing persons: Social cognition and language.

    Giin R. Semin;Klaus Fiedler

  • Recommendations for increasing replicability in psychology.

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Mark Conner;Filip de Fruyt;Jan De Houwer

  • The linguistic category model, its bases, applications and range

    Gün R. Semin;Klaus Fiedler

  • What mediation analysis can (not) do

    Klaus Fiedler;Malte Schott;Thorsten Meiser

  • Beware of samples! A cognitive-ecological sampling approach to judgment biases.

    Klaus Fiedler

  • Unresolved problems with the “I”, the “A”, and the “T”: A logical and psychometric critique of the Implicit Association Test (IAT)

    Klaus Fiedler;Claude Messner;Matthias Bluemke

  • Mood and the regulation of information processing and behavior

    Herbert Bless;Klaus Fiedler

  • Unpacking the exploration–exploitation tradeoff: A synthesis of human and animal literatures.

    Sabine Mehlhorn;Ben R Newell;Peter M Todd;Michael D Lee

  • Faking the IAT: Aided and Unaided Response Control on the Implicit Association Tests

    Klaus Fiedler;Matthias Bluemke

  • The dependence of the conjunction fallacy on subtle linguistic factors

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  • Bimodal Interaction of Coatomer with the p24 Family of Putative Cargo Receptors

    Klaus Fiedler;Michael Veit;Mark A. Stamnes;James E. Rothman

  • Language, interaction and social cognition

    G. R. Semin;Klaus Fiedler

  • Unwarranted inferences from statistical mediation tests – An analysis of articles published in 2015

    Klaus Fiedler;Chris Harris;Malte Schott

  • Why positive information is processed faster: the density hypothesis.

    Christian Unkelbach;Klaus Fiedler;Myriam Bayer;Martin Stegmüller

  • The effects of routine strength on adaptation and information search in recurrent decision making.

    Tilmann Betsch;Susanne Haberstroh;Andreas Glöckner;Thomas Haar

  • Voodoo Correlations Are Everywhere—Not Only in Neuroscience:

    Klaus Fiedler

  • The Long Way From α-Error Control to Validity Proper Problems With a Short-Sighted False-Positive Debate

    Klaus Fiedler;Florian Kutzner;Joachim I. Krueger

  • Construal Level Theory as an Integrative Framework for Behavioral Decision-Making Research and Consumer Psychology

    Klaus Fiedler

  • Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition

    Klaus Fiedler;Peter Juslin

  • Social Cognition: How Individuals Construct Social Reality

    Rainer Greifeneder;Herbert Bless;Klaus Fiedler

  • Explaining and simulating judgment biases as an aggregation phenomenon in probabilistic, multiple-cue environments.

    Klaus Fiedler

  • Questionable research practices revisited.

    Klaus Fiedler;Norbert Schwarz

  • Affect, Cognition and Social Behavior@@@Growth Points in Cognition

    Dipankar Chakravarti;Klaus Fiedler;Joseph Forgas;Guy Claxton

Frequent Co-Authors

Gün R. Semin
Gün R. Semin ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences
Joseph P. Forgas
Joseph P. Forgas University of New South Wales
Christian Unkelbach
Christian Unkelbach University of Cologne
Peter Juslin
Peter Juslin Uppsala University
Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Guido Hertel
Guido Hertel University of Münster
Joachim I. Krueger
Joachim I. Krueger Brown University
Kou Murayama
Kou Murayama University of Reading
Mike Oaksford
Mike Oaksford Birkbeck, University of London

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