2014 Best Student Methodology Presentation: Paulette Flore
Paulette Flore
Biosketch: Paulette grew up in Heerjansdam, the Netherlands. In 2013 she completed her Research Master in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University, with a minor in methodology and statistics. Currently she works as a PhD candidate at Tilburg University at the Department of Methodology and Statistics on a project funded by the The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Her main research interest is the influence of stereotype threat on mathematical test performance of girls and women. She particularly focuses on the psychometric ...
2013 John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology
Natalie Borter
Biosketch:
Natalie grew up in Oberems (Switzerland). She received her Master of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Bern, where she currently is a doctoral student at the Department of Personality, Differential Psychology, and Psychological Testing and Assessment. Her current research interests are in modeling methods (e.g., latent growth curves and fixed-links models) to dissociate various components of response time variance. She is particularly interested in the functional relationship between these components and psychometric intellige...
2013 ISIR Prize for Best Student Paper
Simon Jackson
Biosketch: Simon completed his Bachelor of Science, Psychology (Honours class 1) at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is currently completing his PhD on individual differences in decision making, investigating the role of cognitive abilities and metacognitive confidence. In particular, Simon’s aim is to understand how psychological processes are translated into competent and incompetent choice behaviour. This is being done under the primary supervision of Dr Sabina Kleitman (University of Sydney), and the co-supervision of Professor Lazar Stankov, ...
2012 John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology
Daniel Briley
Biosketch:
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Daniel received his undergraduate degree from Pepperdine University. When awarded, he was working toward a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in the Individual Differences and Evolutionary Psychology division. His research interests center on the development of cognitive abilities in the academic context with particular emphasis on transactional processes between children and their environment. He is interested in how trajectories of intelligence gains influence and are influenced by characteristics of children ...
2011 John B. Carroll Award for Research Methodology
Jakob Pietschnig
Biosketch:
Jakob grew up in Vienna, Austria where he received his M.Sc. in Psychology in 2008 from the University of Vienna. Being interested in psychological research methods, subsequently he started to work as a research associate at the Methods unit of the Department of Basic Psychological Research at the University of Vienna, where he is also currently engaged in completing his dissertation. His research interests include statistical methods in the framework of meta-analyses, assessment methods for publication bias, and generational IQ gains (Flynn ...