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Overview

Leif D. Nelson is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans several areas, with a focus on topics such as meta-analysis and systematic reviews, behavioral health and interventions, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, media influence and health, face recognition and perception, Bayesian methods and mixture models, and statistical methods and inference.

Nelson's recent publications include the following papers: "Specification curve analysis" (2020, Nature Human Behaviour), "Pre-registration: Why and How" (2020, Journal of Consumer Psychology), "Empirical audit and review and an assessment of evidentiary value in research on the psychological consequences of scarcity" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), "RETRACTED ARTICLE: High replicability of newly discovered social-behavioural findings is achievable" (2023, Nature Human Behaviour), and "Above averaging in literature reviews" (2022, Nature Reviews Psychology).

The scientist frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, including Uri Simonsohn, Joseph P. Simmons, Michael O'Donnell, Minah Jung, and Kristin Donnelly.

Nelson often publishes in several key venues, with multiple publications appearing in Nature Human Behaviour, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature Reviews Psychology.

Their subfields of study encompass Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Cognitive Neuroscience, Marketing, Applied Psychology, and Information Systems and Management.

Best Publications

  • False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant

    Joseph P. Simmons;Leif D. Nelson;Uri Simonsohn

  • P-curve: a key to the file-drawer.

    Uri Simonsohn;Leif D. Nelson;Joseph P. Simmons

  • Do Messages about Health Risks Threaten the Self? Increasing the Acceptance of Threatening Health Messages Via Self-Affirmation

    David A. K. Sherman;Leif D. Nelson;Claude M. Steele

  • p-Curve and Effect Size: Correcting for Publication Bias Using Only Significant Results

    Uri Simonsohn;Leif D. Nelson;Joseph P. Simmons

  • A 21 Word Solution

    Joseph P. Simmons;Leif D. Nelson;Uri Simonsohn

  • Psychology's Renaissance

    Leif D. Nelson;Joseph Simmons;Uri Simonsohn

  • Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research

    E. Miguel;C. Camerer;K. Casey;J. Cohen

  • Specification curve analysis

    Uri Simonsohn;Joseph P Simmons;Leif D Nelson

  • Life After P-Hacking

    Joseph Simmons;Leif D. Nelson;Uri Simonsohn

  • Shared Social Responsibility: A Field Experiment in Pay-What-You-Want Pricing and Charitable Giving

    Ayelet Gneezy;Uri Gneezy;Leif D. Nelson;Amber Brown;Amber Brown

  • Commitment and Behavior Change: Evidence from the Field

    Katie Baca-Motes;Amber Brown;Ayelet Gneezy;Elizabeth A. Keenan

  • Pay-what-you-want, identity, and self-signaling in markets

    Ayelet Gneezy;Uri Gneezy;Gerhard Riener;Leif D. Nelson

  • Paying to Be Nice: Consistency and Costly Prosocial Behavior

    Ayelet Gneezy;Alex Imas;Amber Brown;Leif D. Nelson

  • Better P-curves: Making P-curve analysis more robust to errors, fraud, and ambitious P-hacking, a Reply to Ulrich and Miller (2015).

    Uri Simonsohn;Joseph P. Simmons;Leif D. Nelson

  • Intuitive confidence: choosing between intuitive and nonintuitive alternatives.

    Joseph P. Simmons;Leif D. Nelson

  • Affirmed Yet Unaware: Exploring the Role of Awareness in the Process of Self-Affirmation

    David K. Sherman;Geoffrey L. Cohen;Leif D. Nelson;A. David Nussbaum

  • You’re Having Fun When Time Flies The Hedonic Consequences of Subjective Time Progression

    Aaron M. Sackett;Tom Meyvis;Leif D. Nelson;Benjamin A. Converse

  • The effect of accuracy motivation on anchoring and adjustment: Do people adjust from provided anchors?

    Joseph P. Simmons;Robyn A. LeBoeuf;Leif D. Nelson

  • Interrupted Consumption: Disrupting Adaptation to Hedonic Experiences:

    Leif D . Nelson;Tom Meyvis

  • Specification Curve: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics on All Reasonable Specifications

    Uri Simonsohn;Joseph P Simmons;Leif D Nelson

  • Data from Paper “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant”

    Joseph P. Simmons;Leif D. Nelson;Uri Simonsohn

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael I. Norton
Michael I. Norton Harvard University
David K. Sherman
David K. Sherman University of California, Santa Barbara
Don A. Moore
Don A. Moore University of California, Berkeley
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Claude M. Steele
Claude M. Steele Stanford University
Daniel J. Simons
Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scott A. Baldwin
Scott A. Baldwin Brigham Young University
Ben R. Newell
Ben R. Newell University of New South Wales
Dale T. Miller
Dale T. Miller Stanford University
Niklas K. Steffens
Niklas K. Steffens University of Queensland

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