Prof. Dr. Thorsten Meiser
Photo credit: Tsvetina Tsonkova
Professorship for Research Methods and Psychological Assessment
Consultation hour(s):
Fri 11 a.m. – 12 noon
Fri 11 a.m. – 12 noon
Research interests
- Item Response theory und analysis of latent response process
- Statistical modelling of cognitive processes
- Episodic memory, prospective memory, and metacognition
- Contingency learning, judgement and decision making
Publications
- Böckenholt, U. & Meiser, T. (2017). Response style analysis with threshold and multiprocess IRT models: A review and tutorial. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 70, 159–181. DOI: 10.1111/bmsp.12086
- Fiedler, K., Freytag, P., & Meiser, T. (2009). Pseudocontingencies: An integrative account of an intriguing cognitive illusion. Psychological Review, 116, 187–206.
- Henninger, M. & Meiser, T. (2020). Different approaches to modeling response styles in Divide-by-Total Item Response Theory models (Part I): A model integration. Psychological Methods. DOI: 10.1037/met0000249.
- Henninger, M. & Meiser, T. (2020). Different approaches to modeling response styles in Divide-by-Total Item Response Theory models (Part II): Applications and novel extensions. Psychological Methods. DOI: 10.1037/met0000268
- Meiser, T. (2011). Much pain, little gain? Paradigm-specific models and methods in experimental psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 183–191.
- Meiser, T. (2014). Analyzing stochastic dependence of cognitive processes in multidimensional source recognition. Experimental Psychology, 61, 402–415.
- Meiser, T., Eid, M., Carstensen, C., Erdfelder, E., Gollwitzer, M., Pohl, S., Steyer, R., & Strobl, C. (2018). Positionspapier zur Rolle der Psychologischen Methodenlehre in Forschung und Lehre. Psychologische Rundschau, 69, 325–331. DOI: 10.1026/0033–3042/a000417
- Meiser, T., & Hewstone, M. (2004). Cognitive processes in stereotype formation: The role of correct contingency learning for biased group judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 599–614.
- Meiser, T., Plieninger, H., & Henninger, M. (2019). IRTree models with ordinal and multi-dimensional decision nodes for response styles and trait-based rating responses. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 72, 501–516. DOI: 10.1111/bmsp.12158
- Meiser, T., Rummel, J., & Fleig, H. (2018). Pseudocontingencies and choice behavior in probabilistic environments with context-dependent outcomes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 50–67. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000432
- Meiser, T., Sattler, C., & Weißer (2008). Binding of multidimensional context information as a distinctive characteristic of remember judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 32–49.
- Rummel, J., & Meiser, T. (2016). Spontaneous prospective-memory processing: Unexpected fluency experiences trigger erroneous intention executions. Memory & Cognition, 44, 89–103. DOI: 10.3758/s13421–015-0546-y