PhD student
E-mail: marton.balazs.kovacs at gmail.com
Education
- 2020 – Doctoral School of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2018 – 2020 MA Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
- 2016 – 2018 Illyés Sándor College for Advanced Studies
- 2015 – 2018 BA Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Scientific Interest
- research efficiency
- metascience
- open science
Affiliations
- 2015 – 2020 Research Assistant at ELTE Decisionlab
Skills & Experience
- Programming languages: R, Javascript, Python
- Programs: Opensesame, JASP, Octave
Awards and Grants
- Pro Scientia Gold Medal 2019
- Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary 2019
- Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary 2018
- Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary 2017
- Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary 2016
Talks & Posters
- Kovacs, M. (2019). Who knows what var4 stands for? On the importance of research data management standards. Best Data Practices in Data Analysis and Statistics Symposium 2th. 09. January 2019. Budapest. (Talk)
- 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)
- Palinkas, A., Szaszi, B., Palfi, B., Szollosi, A., Zrubka, M., Kovacs, M., & Aczel, B. (2017). Using Nudges: A Scoping Review of Applied Choice Architecture Techniques ICPS 23-25. March 2017. Vienna (Poster)
- 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. (Talk)
- 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. (Poster)
Publications
- 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.
- Bőthe, B., Kovacs, M., Tóth-Király, I., Reid, R. C., Griffiths, M. D., Orosz, G., & Demetrovics, Z. (2018). The Psychometric Properties of the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory Using a Large-Scale Nonclinical Sample. The Journal of Sex Research, 1-11.
- McCarthy, R. J., Skowronski, J. J., Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., Kovacs, M., … & Barbosa, F. (2018). Registered replication report on Srull and Wyer (1979). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 321-336.
- Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., Orthey, R., McCarthy, R. J., Kovacs, M., … & Barbosa, F. (2018). Registered replication report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 299-317.