The Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) is the supra-regional research support facility for psychology in German-speaking countries. It supports the entire scientific work process, from literature research and study planning to data collection and analyses to documentation, archiving and publication of results. The services offered by ZPID are based on an ideal-type research cycle.
ZPID is committed to the idea of open science and sees itself as a public open science institute for psychology. As a research-based support institution, ZPID conducts research on “science acceptance”, “psychological metascience”, and “big data in psychology”.
Important projects:
- In its reference database PSYNDEX, ZPID documents scientific publications from the field of psychology and other scientific disciplines (e.g., educational and social sciences) related to educational research.
- ZPID’s reference database PSYNDEX Tests contains diagnostic tools from the field of educational psychology as well as related fields of application (e.g., pedagogics, curative education, speech therapy) which are well-suited for applications in educational assessment. The Open test Archive offers a number of free assessment tools for research purposes.
- The Research Data Center (RDC) supports researchers in psychology and related disciplines in the quality-assured curation of research data and offers various access routes for the scientific use of these data corpora.The RDC supports both research-related (DataWiz) and downstream documentation and archiving of research data via the psychology repository PsychArchives.
- The Institute participates in research work on the monitoring of educational research in Germany.
- In the research area Science Acceptance, the team investigates how people think about science and how they evaluate researchers and their findings. This area includes the Science Reception Lab led by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Marlene Altenmüller, the Social Influence Lab of the director Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg, and research projects coordinated by Dr. Tom Rosman.
- The research area Psychological Metascience summarizes the findings of psychological research, examines their robustness, and analyzes how results are influenced by various factors. The area includes the Metascience Lab led by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kinga Bierwiaczonek, as well as research projects led by Dr. Tanja Burgard and Dr. André Bittermann.
- In the research area Big Data in Psychology, they investigate how theory-driven research can improve Big Data methods and how these methods can generate new insights for psychology. The area currently includes the Moral Computing Lab led by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Frederic Hopp.
