Peter Szecsi

PhD student

E-mail: pter.szecsi at gmail.com

Education

  • 2020- :  PhD, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
  • 2018-2020, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2015-2018: BA, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2003-2015: Fazekas Mihály Elementary and High School, Budapest, Hungary

Scientific Interest

  • Decision-making
  • Generalizability
  • Scarcity research

Affiliations

  • 2015 – 2020 Research assistant: Decision lab, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Running Projects

  • Exploration of the effect of poverty-related questions on children’s exam performance
  • Meta-analysis of the effect of the salience of scarcity on cognitive functions

Skills & Experience

  • Programming languages: R, Python (beginner)
  • Statistical and research tools: Opensesame, JASP, Qualtrics

Publications and Preprints

  • Aczel, B., Palfi, B., Szollosi, A., Kovacs, M., Szaszi, B., Szecsi, P., … & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2018). Quantifying Support for the Null Hypothesis in Psychology: An Empirical Investigation. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2515245918773742.
  • Buttrick, N. R., Aczel, B., Aeschbach, L. F., Bakos, B. E., Brühlmann, F., Claypool, H. M., …, Szecsi, P., … & Wood, M. J. (2020). Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Vohs and Schooler (2008), Experiment 1. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2515245920917931.
  • Ebersole, C. R., Mathur, M. B., Baranski, E., Bart-Plange, D. J., Buttrick, N. R., Chartier, C. R., …, Szecsi, P., … & Nosek, N. (2020). Many Labs 5: Testing pre-data-collection peer review as an intervention to increase replicability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(3), 309-331.
  • Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Flake, J. K., Liuzza, M. T., Antfolk, J., Arinze, N. C., …, Szecsi, P., …  & Sirota, M. (2021). To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?. Nature human behaviour, 5(1), 159-169.
  • Kekecs, Z., Aczel, B., Palfi, B., Szaszi, B., Szecsi, P., Zrubka, M., … & Dubrov, D. (2019). Raising the value of research studies in psychological science by increasing the credibility of research reports: The Transparent Psi Project-Preprint.
  • McCarthy, R. J., Skowronski, J. J., Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., …, Szecsi, P., … & Barbosa, F. (2018). Registered replication report on Srull and Wyer (1979). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 321-336.
  • Skorb, L., Aczel, B., Bakos, B. E., Feinberg, L., Hałasa, E., Kauff, M., …, Szecsi, P., … & Montealegre, A. (2020). Many Labs 5: Replication of van Dijk, van Kleef, Steinel, and van Beest (2008). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2515245920927643.
  • Szaszi, B., Hajdu, N., Szecsi, P., Tipton, E., & Aczel, B. (2022). A machine learning analysis of the relationship of demographics and social gathering attendance from 41 countries during pandemic. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-8.
  • Szaszi, B., Aczel, B., Hajdu, N., Szecsi, P., & Tipton, E. (2021). Demographic patterns of lockdown breakers: a worldwide study.
  • Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., Orthey, R., McCarthy, R. J., …, Szecsi, P., … & Barbosa, F. (2018). Registered replication report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 299-317.

Talks & Posters

  • Szecsi, P., Palfi, B., Szaszi, B., Zrubka, M., Kovacs, M., Aczel, B., & Kekecs, Z. (2018). Consensus Design Process of the Transparent Psi Project. Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgement and Decision Making. 15-18. November 2018. New Orleans.
  • An Empirical Inquiry of the Effect of Action Execution on the Decision Making Process. Szecsi, P., Kovacs, M., Szollosi, A., Palfi, B., Szaszi, B., Salamon, J., Zrubka, M. & Kieslich, P. ICPS 2017 Vienna. (Poster)
  • Palfi, B., Szollosi, A., Szaszi, B., Kovacs, M., Zrubka, M., Szecsi, P., Aczel, B., & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2017) Interpreting nonsignificant findings in psychological research. CogSci. 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Society. 26-29. July 2017. London. (Poster)
  • Kovacs, M., Szecsi, P., Palfi, B., Szollosi, A., Szaszi, B., Kieslich, P., & Aczel, B. (2016). Investigating embodied choice in the Guided      Movement Task. In J. Funke, J. Rummel, & A. Voß (Eds.), Abstracts of the 58th Conference of Experimental Psychologists. (p. 170). Heidelberg, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers. (Talk)