[Air-L] 2nd Summer School on Internet-based Data Collection and Analysis in Decision Making

[U. Reips]

Dear colleagues:
we'd be most thankful if you were to distribute 
the following announcement of our 2nd Konstanz 
summer school.

Looking forward to seeing you at Lake Constance,
Ulf

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The Graduate School of Decision Sciences and the 
Psychology Department at University of Konstanz 
invite you to take part in our 2nd Summer School 
on Internet-based Data Collection and Analysis in 
Decision Making

September 11-15, 2017 @ University of Konstanz

Instructors (bios see below):

Michael Birnbaum * Chick Judd * Gary McClelland * Ulf-Dietrich Reips

Topics:

Basic and advanced concepts of Internet-based 
research * Methods of Decision Making research * 
Mediation & Moderation & Mediated Moderation 
analysis * Experimental design * Online tools & 
standards * Visualization * Apps * Optimal design 
* Theory and model testing * Mixed models * 
Analysis of Internet data * Avoiding frequently 
made errors * Practical applications * Social 
Media * Big Data * iScience *

Summer School begins with Registration Monday 11th of September, 11:00
There will be an Early Bird social gathering on Sunday evening.

Cost: 120.- Euro, includes lunches and some catering during the summer school
Programme and information re accomodation and 
travel (on your own: no funding by the summer 
school available) available from 
https://www.gsds.uni-konstanz.de/news-and-events/summer-schools/

3 ECTS for those who participate in and pass the optional exam

Social Programme in and around Lake Constance 
(http://www.konstanz.de/en/01800/index.html , 
http://www.constance-lake-constance.com/start.html)

Apply until August 15 by sending an informal 
e-mail with the subject "summer school 17" to 
Teresa Baeumle (gsds.summerschool at uni.kn). Please 
include a brief CV or information about your 
field, degrees, experience with Internet-based 
data collection and analysis in Decision Making 
and your motivation to take part in the summer 
school.

Instructors:

Michael Birnbaum received his PhD from UCLA in 
1972. He taught at University of Illinois, 
Urbana- Champaign from 1974-1986, where he was 
head of the Division of Quantitative and 
Industrial/Organizational Psychology, and 
promoted to Full Professor in 1982. He came to 
California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) in 
1986 on leave from University of Illinois, and 
made the position here permanent in 1988. He is a 
founder and current co-director of the Decision 
Research Center at CSUF. He was named Outstanding 
Professor for CSUF in 1991-92 and has published 
more than 125 scientific articles and three 
books. In the last decade, he has had five grants 
from the National Science Foundation and one from 
the American Psychological Association. He served 
as president of the Society for Mathematical 
Psychology, 2002-2003, president of the Society 
for Judgment and Decision Making, 2008-2009, and 
president of the Society for Computers in 
Psychology, 2009-2010.

Charles "Chick" M. Judd is a College Professor of 
Distinction at University of Colorado, Boulder. 
He received his PhD in 1976 from Columbia 
University after getting a B.A. from Yale. He 
then became Assistant Professor, then Associate 
Professor at Harvard University. In 1981 he 
became an Associate Professor at University of 
Colorado, Boulder, where he was promoted to 
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience in 1987 
and College Professor of Distinction in 2006. He 
has been a Visiting Professor in Bristol, 
Cardiff, Oxford and Stanford, among others. His 
research focuses on Social cognition and 
attitudes; Structure, function, and the 
measurement of attitudes; Judgment, memory, and 
decision making. Methods of behavioral science 
research and data analysis: Experimental design 
and analysis; Evaluation and quasi-experimental 
designs and analysis; Linear structural models. 
Among numerous awards, he received the Thomas 
Ostrom Award for Lifetime Contributions to Social 
Cognition Research, 2010 and in 2012 the Jacob 
Cohen Award jointly with Gary McClelland, see 
below.

Gary McClelland is a Professor emeritus of the 
University of Colorado, Boulder, received his PhD 
in 1971 from the University of Michigan, and has 
been a pioneer in the use of interactive 
web-based graphics to support understanding of 
methodological concepts in both scientific 
journal articles and in educational materials 
(e.g., Irwin & McClelland, 2003; McClelland, 
1997, 2000). Gary's two primary research 
interests are (1) judgment and decision making 
and (2) statistical methods. He is a founding 
member of the Society for Judgment and Decision 
Making and a founding fellow of the Association 
for Psychological Science. He and Chick Judd in 
2012 jointly won the Jacob Cohen Award for 
Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and 
Mentoring by the American Psychological 
Association, Div. 5.

Ulf-Dietrich Reips is a Full Professor at the 
University of Konstanz. He received his PhD in 
1996 from the University of Tübingen. His 
research focuses on Internet-based research 
methodologies, the psychology of the Internet, 
measurement, development, the cognition of 
causality, personality, privacy, Social Media, 
crowdsourcing, and Big Data. In 1994, he founded 
the Web Experimental Psychology Lab, the first 
laboratory for conducting real experiments on the 
World Wide Web. Ulf was a founder of the German 
Society for Online Research, was elected the 
first non-North American president of the Society 
for Computers in Psychology and he is the 
founding editor of the free open access journal 
International Journal of Internet Science 
(http://ijis.net). Ulf and his team develop and 
provide free Web tools for researchers, teachers, 
students, and the public. They received numerous 
awards for their Web applications (available from 
the iScience Server at http://iscience.eu/) and 
methodological work serving the research 
community.