Balazs Aczel, Ph.D. (Univ. of Cambridge, UK), Doctor of Science (MTA, Hungary), professor and vice-dean for science at ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
email: balazs.aczel at gmail.com BlueSky: @balazsaczel.bsky.social
Scientific Interest
- Psychology of Science
- Research transparency, improving the credibility of psychology research
- Underlying cognitive processes of decision making
Employment
- 2023 – Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, professor
- 2016 – 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, Use of Artificial Intelligence in Research
Memberships
- 2018- member, Society for Improving Psychological Science
- 2018- fellow, Psychonomic Society
Grants and Awards
- ADVANCED research grant, 2024-2029
- National Excellence Program 2012-13, 2017-18, 2018-19
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund – OTKA 2013-14, 2020-23
Links
OSF projects
Preprints
Google Scholar Profile
Main Publications
- Aczel, B. (2024). Let the data talk: embrace exploratory research. Nature, 635(8040), 788-788.
- Aczel, B., … & Ioannidis, J. P. (2025). The present and future of peer review: Ideas, interventions, and evidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(5), e2401232121.
- Wagenmakers, E. J., Sarafoglou, A., & Aczel, B. (2022). One statistical analysis must not rule them all. Nature, 605(7910), 423-425.
- Parson, S., Azevedo, F., … Aczel, B. (2022). A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(11), 1-7.
- 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., Szollosi, A., Kovacs, M., Szaszi, B., Szecsi, P., Zrubka, M., Gronau, Q. F., van den Bergh, D., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2018). Quantifying Support for the Null Hypothesis in Psychology: An Empirical Investigation. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 357–366. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918773742
- Szaszi, B., Palinkas, R. A., Szollosi, A., Palfi, B., &Aczel, B. (2018). A Systematic Scoping Review of Choice Architecture Interventions: towards a better understanding why and when nudges work. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31(3), 355-366.
- 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: pp. 51-58.
- Aczel B, Kekecs Z, Bago B, Szollosi A, Foldes A (2015).An empirical analysis of the methodology of automatic imitation research in a strategic context. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41:(4) pp. 1049-1062.
- Aczel, B., Bago, B., Foldes., A. (2012). Is there evidence for automatic imitation in a strategic context? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1741), 3231-3233.
Non-academic Interest
| – bespoke tailoring | – amateur chess |
| – genealogy research | – antique furniture repairment |