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Klaus Fiedler

Disciplines:
cognitive psychology
social psychology
research/methodology
metaphysics/meta-science

Summary

German social psychologist at Heidelberg University, known for rigorous methodological work on cognition, language, and social judgment, and for his role in the meta-science and replication-crisis discussions within psychology.

Core Contribution

Contributed foundational work on language-action framing, social cognition biases, and has been a prominent voice calling for higher methodological standards in psychological research.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • meta-science and replication
  • language-action framing effects
  • methodological pluralism

Notable Works & Achievements

Metacognitive Myopia

Language-Action research programme

various papers on social cognition and methodology

Historical Influences

cognitive psychology tradition language-action research Bayesian reasoning in science

Intellectual Lineage

Fritz HeiderLeon Festinger Amos Tversky Daniel Kahneman

Contemporaries & Peers

Ulrich SchimmackEric-Jan WagenmakersLeif Nelson

Minds Influenced

meta-science communityreformers in social psychology

Intellectual Posterity

replication crisis reform movementmethodological reform in social psychology

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