Welcome...

 ...to the working unit Statistics and Psychological Methods at the University of Münster (AE Nestler). The members of our lab are interested in the advancement of statistical methods for the analysis of complex psychological data. Latest research projects cover topics such as combining the social relations model with structural equation models, advancing models to examine intra-individual variability or combining standard statistical approaches such as multilevel or structural equation models with machine learning methods (e.g., trees, boosting, ...). We are also authors or contributors to different R packages. In teaching, we provide a comprehensive B.Sc.- and M.Sc.-program in psychological methods, including lectures and courses on basic and advanced statistics.

If you are interested in writing a thesis in our lab, you can find further information here. We offer supervision of both bachelor and master theses covering both substantive and methodological research questions.

Latest News

2024-12-30

New paper in press by S. Humberg, F. Schönbrodt, & S. Nestler in Psychological Methods: Improving the probability of reaching correct conclusions about congruence hypotheses: Integrating statistical equivalence testing into response surface analysis

2024-12-18

New paper in press by B. Forthmann, S. Weiss, & B. Goecke in Imagination, Cognition and Personality: A cognitive interpretation is not at odds with equal odds: A latent variable investigation of creative thinking.

2024-12-05

New paper published by M. Meier, K. Jansen, H. Vertgewall, & L. Claes in European Eating Disorders Review: The Lifetime Prevalence of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Children and Adolescents With Eating Disorders—A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

2024-11-26

New paper in press by J. Saretzki, R. Andrae, B. Forthmann, & M. Benedek in The Journal of Creative Behavior: Investigation of response aggregation methods in divergent thinking assessments.

2024-11-26

New paper in press by D. Laumann, M. Krause, ..., B. Forthmann, ... & S. Heusler in Education and Information Technologies: Mobile learning in the classroom – Should students bring mobile devices for learning, or should these be provided by schools?