Cake Club 🍰

Ein StΓΌck Kuchen, das mit Schnipseln aus wissenschaftlichen Publikationen dekoriert ist

Every first Friday of the month (regularly), we hold a Journal Club. Journal Clubs are regular meetings during which current (or older) scientific publications are presented and critically examined. The goal of this meeting is, on the one hand, to engange with current research findings in our field, and, on the other,  to train critical reading skills, in particular with regards to a priori plausibility of hypotheses, appropriateness of study designs to test these hypotheses, quality and robustness of (statistical) analysis strategies and their interpretation and integration into the existing literature. Also, there's cake.

  • Next meeting: tbd
  • Location: Fabrikstrasse 8, A343 or via Zoom (hybrid)
  • Target Paper: tbd
  • Cake: tbd

Participation in the Cake Club is open to anyone who's interested. There is no commitment to participate in every meeting. Anyone who'd like to drop-in once or who would like to come regularly should simply write an email to beth.clarke@unibe.ch. The Cake Club is a hybrid event, such that online participation is possible (you just need to provide your own cake then).

Previous Cake Club target papers

πŸ“„ McNeish, D. (2025). How Do Psychologists Determine Whether a Measurement Scale Is Good? A Quarter-Century of Scale Validation with Hu & Bentler (1999). Annual Review of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-121924-104021
🍰 Sacher cake
🍰 Lemon meringue cake
πŸ“„ Wulff, D. U., & Mata, R. (2025). Escaping the jingle–jangle jungle: Increasing conceptual clarity in psychology using large language models. PsyArxiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ksuh8_v1
🍰 Raspberry cream cake
🍰 Caramel cake
πŸ“„ Echenique, F., & He, K. (2024). Screening p-hackers: Dissemination noise as bait. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(21), e2400787121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400787121
🍰 Butter cream cake
🍰 Fruit curd cake
πŸ“„ Spiess, A.-N., RΓΆdiger, S., Schaks, M., Burdukiewicz, M., & Tellinghuisen, J. (2024). Scientific reasoning driven by influential data: Resuscitate dfstat! BioRXiv https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.30.621016
🍰 Coconut Almond Flake Cake
Discussion summary (posted on PubPeer)
πŸ“„ Moshagen, M., Musch, J., & Erdfelder, E. (2012). A stochastic lie detector. Behavior Research Methods, 44, 222-231. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-011-0144-2
🍰 Cinnamon Rolls
πŸ“„ Stosic, M. D., Murphy, B. A., Duong, F., Fultz, A. A., Harvey, S. E., & Bernieri, F. (2024). Careless Responding: Why Many Findings Are Spurious or Spuriously Inflated. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7(1), 25152459241231580. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459241231581
🍰 Lemon & blueberry sponge
πŸ“„ Wulff, D. U., & Mata, R. (2023). Automated jingle–jangle detection: Using embeddings to tackle taxonomic incommensurability. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9h7aw
🍰 Argovian Carrot Cake
πŸ“„ John, Y. J., Caldwell, L., McCoy, D. E., & Braganza, O. (in press). Dead rats, dopamine, performance metrics, and peacock tails: proxy failure is an inherent risk in goal-oriented systems. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23002753
🍰 Chocolate sponge loaf
πŸ“„ McManus, R. M., Young, L., & Sweetman, J. (in press). Psychology is a property of persons, not averages or distributions: Confronting the group-to-person generalizability problem in experimental psychology. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
🍰 Blondie bites with peanuts and cholocate
🍰 Chocolate Swiss roll
πŸ“„ Haucke, M., Hoekstra, R., & Van Ravenzwaaij, D. (2021). When numbers fail: Do researchers agree on operationalization of published research? Royal Society Open Science, 8(9), 191354. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191354
🍰 Armenian Perok
Discussion summary (posted on PubPeer)
πŸ“„ Murayama, K., & Jach, H. (2023). A critique of motivation constructs: Motivation as psychological construction, not the determinant of behavior (Preprint). PsyArxiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/juxkh
🍰 Carrot cake
🍰 Stracciatella cake
πŸ“„ Kopalle, P. K., & Lehmann, D. R. (1997). Alpha inflation? The impact of eliminating scale items on Cronbach's alpha. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 70(3), 189-197. https://doi.org/10.1006/obhd.1997.2702
🍰 Rhubarb strawberry cheesecake
🍰 Raspberry curd cake
πŸ“„ Cobb, C. L., Crumly, B., Montero-Zamora, P., Schwartz, S. J., & Martínez, C. R., Jr. (2023). The problem of miscitation in psychological science: Righting the ship. American Psychologist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001138
🍰 All cake records up to this paper were destroyed in a tragic fire accident.
πŸ“„ Bainbridge, T. F., Ludeke, S. G., & Smillie, L. D. (2022). Evaluating the Big Five as an organizing framework for commonly used psychological trait scales. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(4), 749–777. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000395
πŸ“„ Zheng, S., & Becker, I. (2022). Presenting Suspicious Details in {User-Facing} E-mail Headers Does Not Improve Phishing Detection. In Eighteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2022) (pp. 253-271). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3563609.3563623
πŸ“„ Hughes, S., Cummins, J., & Hussey, I. (2022). Effects on the Affect Misattribution Procedure are strongly moderated by influence awareness. Behavior Research Methods, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01879-4
πŸ“„ Flake, J. K., Davidson, I. J., Wong, O., & Pek, J. (2022). Construct validity and the validity of replication studies: A systematic review. American Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/369qj
πŸ“„ Burris, C. T. & Leitch, R. (2018). Harmful fun: Pranks and sadistic motivation. Motivation and Emotion, 42(1), 90–102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-017-9651-5
πŸ“„ Akram, U., Drabble, J., Cau, G., Hershaw, F., Rajenthran, A., Lowe, M., Trommelen, C. & Ellis, J. G. (2020). Exploratory study on the role of emotion regulation in perceived valence, humour, and beneficial use of depressive internet memes in depression. Scientific Reports, 10, Artikel 899. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57953-4
πŸ“„ Kramer, A. D. I., Guillory, J. E. & Hancock, J. T. (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(24), 8788–8790. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111
πŸ“„ Hodson, G. (2021). Construct jangle or construct mangle? Thinking straight about (nonredundant) psychological constructs. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 00, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.120
πŸ“„ Dietvorst, B. J., Simmons, J. P. & Massey, C. (2015). Algorithm aversion: people erroneously avoid algorithms after seeing them err. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(1), 114–126. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000033
πŸ“„ Fiedler, K., Harris, C. & Schott, M. (2018). Unwarranted inferences from statistical mediation tests – An analysis of articles published in 2015. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75, 95–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2017.11.008
πŸ“„ Kosinski, M. (2021). Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images. Scientific Reports, 11, Artikel 100. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79310-1
πŸ“„ Rule, J. S., Tenenbaum, J. B. & Piantadosi, S. T. (2020). The Child as Hacker. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(11), 900–915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.07.005
πŸ“„ LaziΔ‡, A. & Ε½eΕΎelj, I. (2021). A systematic review of narrative interventions: Lessons for countering anti-vaccination conspiracy theories and misinformation. Public Understanding of Science, 30(6), 644–670. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625211011881
πŸ“„ Skjuve, M., Følstad, A., Fostervold, K. I. & Brandtzaeg, P. B. (2021). My Chatbot Companion - a Study of Human-Chatbot Relationships. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 149, Artikel 102601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2021.102601
πŸ“„ Scrivner, C., Johnson, J. A., Kjeldgaard-Christiansen, J. & Clasen, M. (2021). Pandemic practice: Horror fans and morbidly curious individuals are more psychologically resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, Artikel 110397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110397
πŸ“„ Bechade, L., Duplessis, G. D. & Devillers, L. (2016). Empirical Study of Humor Support in Social Human-Robot Interaction. In N. Streitz & P. Markopoulos (Hrsg.), Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions (S. 305–316). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39862-4_28
πŸ“„ Andres, J., schraefel, m., Semertzidis, N., Dwivedi, B., Kulwe, Y. C., Kaenel, J. von & Mueller, F. F. (04212020). Introducing Peripheral Awareness as a Neurological State for Human-computer Integration. In R. Bernhaupt, F. '. Mueller, D. Verweij, J. Andres, J. McGrenere, A. Cockburn, I. Avellino, A. Goguey, P. Bjørn, S. Zhao, B. P. Samson & R. Kocielnik (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (S. 1–13). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376128
πŸ“„ Junker, A., Hutters, C., Reipur, D., Embøl, L., Nilsson, N. C. & Nordahl, R. (10252020). Virtual Womb. In D. Lamas, H. Sarapuu, I. Šmorgun & G. Berget (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society (S. 1–8). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3419249.3420159
πŸ“„ Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A. & Wagenmakers, E.‑J. (2020). Laypeople Can Predict Which Social-Science Studies Will Be Replicated Successfully. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(3), 267–285. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920919667
πŸ“„ Venard, B. (2019). The determinants of individual cyber security behaviours: Qualitative research among French students. In 2019 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics And Assessment (Cyber SA). https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberSA.2019.8899648
πŸ“„ Grames, E. M., Stillman, A. N., Tingley, M. W. & Elphick, C. S. (2019). An automated approach to identifying search terms for systematic reviews using keyword co-occurrence networks. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(10), 1645–1654. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13268
πŸ“„ Hussey, I. & Hughes, S. (2020). Hidden Invalidity Among 15 Commonly Used Measures in Social and Personality Psychology. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(2), 166–184. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919882903
πŸ“„ Talamas, S. N., Mavor, K. I. & Perrett, D. I. (2016). Blinded by Beauty: Attractiveness Bias and Accurate Perceptions of Academic Performance. PLOS ONE, 11(2), Artikel e0148284. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148284
πŸ“„ Wendt, C. S. & Berg, G. (2009). Nonverbal humor as a new dimension of HRI. In RO-MAN 2009 - The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 183-188. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326230
πŸ“„ Venkatanathan, J., Kostakos, V., Karapanos, E. & Gonçalves, J. (2014). Online Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information with Strangers: Effects of Public and Private Sharing. Interacting with Computers, 26(6), 614–626. https://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwt058
πŸ“„ van der Lippe, T. & Lippényi, Z. (2020). Beyond Formal Access: Organizational Context, Working From Home, and Work–Family Conflict of Men and Women in European Workplaces. Social Indicators Research, 151(2), 383–402. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-1993-1
πŸ“„ Goodman, J. K., Cryder, C. E. & Cheema, A. (2013). Data Collection in a Flat World: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Mechanical Turk Samples. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26(3), 213–224. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1753
πŸ“„ Lu, L. & Gursoy, D. (2017). Does offering an organic food menu help restaurants excel in competition? An examination of diners’ decision-making. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 63, 72–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2017.03.004
πŸ“„ Halali, E., Meiran, N. & Shalev, I. (2017). Keep it cool: temperature priming effect on cognitive control. Psychological Research, 81(2), 343–354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-016-0753-6
πŸ“„ Waytz, A., Dungan, J. & Young, L. (2013). The whistleblower's dilemma and the fairness–loyalty tradeoff. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(6), 1027–1033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2013.07.002
πŸ“„ Oppenheimer, D. M. (2006). Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: problems with using long words needlessly. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20(2), 139–156. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1178
πŸ“„ Watt, C. (2014). Precognitive dreaming: Investigating anomalous cognition and psychological factors. Journal of Parapsychology, 78(1), 115–125. https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/precognitive-dreaming-investigating-anomalous-cognition-and-psych
πŸ“„ Rohrer, J. M. (2018). Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(1), 27–42. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245917745629