Zoltan Dienes

 

 

 

 

Professor of Psychology
Director of the Centre for Open science and Research Reform
School of Psychology
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK

<= me in Tibet

 

 

Email: dienes@sussex.ac.uk
Phone: +44 1273 876638


 

 

 



Dienes, Z. (2008).Understanding Psychology as a Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Statistical Inference. Palgrave Macmillan (now in Hungarian, Chinese, and Japanese. French translation coming soon.)

I do not author, review, or edit for journals run by for-profits, except for society journals (where at least some money comes back to the society).

Papers with my name on will test hypotheses using informed Bayes factors

Papers with my name on will typically (from now on) be tested for computational reproducibility by an independent statistician

click here for a Bayes Factor calculator

 

Teaching

I organize and teach Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes, a final year option module. I also organize and teach on the masters module Research Reform and Open Science.

 

 

 

 

 

Research publications

I am exploring ways of changing common practice in statistical inference by using Bayesian methods. I am interested in using Bayes factors to test theories as an alternative to significance testing. I had possibly the first online Bayes factor calculator (in 2008). I am also interested in Registered Reports as a means for overcoming some problems in how science currently operates; I was part of the first Registered Reports editorial board in Cortex in 2013. I am a co-founder of PCI Registered Reports.

I am interested in the distinction between conscious and unconscious mental states, both states of knowing and intending. For example, much of the knowledge we acquire for dealing with the world appears to be unconscious. By what methods can we determine whether knowledge is conscious or unconscious? What type of structures can be learnt unconsciously?

Many people appear to be able to intend to perform some behavioural or cognitive act without being aware of their intentions; the result is that people, to varying degrees, can create new experiences that do not correspond to reality, without knowing that they are doing so. I call this ability phenomenological control - it is involved for example in responding to hypnotic suggestions. But it may be involved in many other contexts. What can be achieved with phenomenological control? How does it operate differently from mindfulness?


Other

I set up the University of Sussex Integrated Martial Arts Club, but leave the running of it now to others.
My younger brother Russell died 6 June 1997.
My twin brother Bruce died on the 24th August 2006.
My older son Harry and my younger son Tenzin.
My father's website (John Biggs) .
If you are looking for my grandfather, Zoltan Paul Dienes, the mathematics educator, his page is here. He sadly passed away on 11 Jan 2014, age 97, happily singing songs with friends and family.
More information on the Dienes family.

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