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Education
- 2006-2009 PhD, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2001-2006 MA, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Scientific Interest
- Research transparency, improving the credibility of psychology research
- Underlying cognitive processes of decision making
- Using AI for advancing science
Employment
- 2023 – Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, professor
- 2021 – Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, vice dean of science
- 2016 – 2023 Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, associate professor
- 2011 – 09.2016 Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary senior lecturer
- 2011 – 06.2011 KGRE University, Budapest, Hungary senior lecturer
- 2009 – 09.2010 Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Uni. of Cambridge, research associate
Courses Taught
- Best Research Practices, Philosophy of Science, History of Psychology, Understanding Psychology as a Science, Presenting Experimental Results
Affiliations
- 2018- member, Society for Improving Psychological Science
- 2018- fellow, Psychonomic Society
- 2018- board member, Psychological Science Accelerator, Data and Methodology Committee
Grants and Awards
- National Excellence Program 2012-2013, 2017-2018, 2018-2019
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund – OTKA 2013-2014
- Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship, 2007, 2008
- Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary, 2004, 2005
Links
OSF projects
Preprints
Google Scholar Profile
Main Publications
- Wagenmakers, E. J., Sarafoglou, A., & Aczel, B. (2022). One statistical analysis must not rule them all. Nature, 605(7910), 423-425.
- Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., & Holcombe, A. O. (2021). A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 6(1), 1-8.
- Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Nilsonne, G., Van Den Akker, O. R., Albers, C. J., Van Assen, M. A., … & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2021). Consensus-based guidance for conducting and reporting multi-analyst studies.
- Elife, 10, e72185.
- Aczel, B., Kovacs, M., Bognar, M., Palfi, B., Hartanto, A., Onie, S., … & Evans, T. R. (2021). Is there evidence for cross-domain congruency sequence effect? A replication of Kan et al.(2013). Royal Society Open Science, 8(3), 191353.
- Wagenmakers, E. J., Sarafoglou, A., Aarts, S., Albers, C., Algermissen, J., Bahník, Š., … & Aczel, B. (2021). Seven steps toward more transparency in statistical practice. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(11), 1473-1480.
- Aczel, B., Hoekstra, R., Gelman, A., Wagenmakers, E. J., Klugkist, I. G., Rouder, J. N., … & van Ravenzwaaij, D. (2020). Discussion points for Bayesian inference. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(6), 561-563.
- Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Sarafoglou, A., Kekecs, Z., Kucharský, Š., Benjamin, D., … & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2020). A consensus-based transparency checklist. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(1), 4-6.
- Aczel, B. (2019). Low Levels of Wisdom: Foolishness. In R. Sternberg & J. Glück (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 483-499). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108568272.023
- Aczel, B., Palfi, B., & Szaszi, B. (2017). Estimating the evidential value of significant results in psychological science. PloS one, 12(8), e0182651.
- Aczel B, Palfi B, Kekecs Z (2015).What is stupid?: People’s conception of unintelligent behavior. Intelligence, 53, 51-58.
Non-academic Interest
| – antique furniture revival | – amateur chess |
| – running, swimming | – genealogy research |