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Katrin Auspurg
@kauspurg.bsky.social
Sociologist
Billions of regressions ≠ robustness.

My new PNAS Letter shows how unjustified models can drown out justified ones — and why thoughtful model selection matters👇
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is an extremely relevant and interesting study that shows that behavioral intentions measured in survey experiments should not be mistaken for a measure of actual behavior. And it is a nice example of studies that replicate themselves by using different research designs!
New Publication with @neugebauer.bsky.social in Sociological Science! Factorial surveys are widely used to predict real-world decisions, but are they valid? Our results raise concerns when it comes to predicting real-world decisions from factorial survey responses (1)
NEW: Andrea G. Forster, Martin Neugebauer, "Factorial Survey Experiments to Predict Real-World Behavior: A Cautionary Tale from Hiring Studies"
September 26, 2024 at 4:39 PM
If you are interested in why many-analyst studies may overestimate uncertainty, you might want to take a look at our recent open access article: Toward a more credible assessment of the credibility of science by many-analyst studies | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Toward a more credible assessment of the credibility of science by many-analyst studies | PNAS
We discuss a relatively new meta-scientific research design: many-analyst studies that attempt to assess the replicability and credibility of resea...
www.pnas.org
September 6, 2024 at 5:53 PM
I am happy that my paper with Sabine Düval is now published. We use survey experiments & causal mediation analyses to explore gender ideologies & norms underlying the division of housework. We argue that traditional ideologies may have been overestimated in previous research...
"By gradually adding information about labor market resources, we were able to override respondents’ stereotypical beliefs."

This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social
NEW: Katrin Auspurg, Sabine Düval "Housework as a Woman's Job? What Looks Like Gender Ideologies Could Also Be Stereotypes."
September 4, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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Sociology is behind on ** reproducibility ** but we can get together to catch up!

Join our 3 sessions at the ECSR conference in Barcelona (ecsr2024.com) on what journals can do.

At @sociologicalsci.bsky.social , we require data & code or a good reason.
September 3, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Reposted by Katrin Auspurg
This year we host in October the META-REP 2024 an international conference focusing on meta-science and replicability in the cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences. The deadline for submissions is April 30. Contribute to vital discussions on meta-science and replicability. #metarep #openscience
META-REP Conference 2024 - LMU Munich
www.conference2024.meta-rep.uni-muenchen.de
April 24, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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Sociology is behind on transparency but we can get together to catch up!

In Europe, the ECSR conference in Barcelona will host two sessions on reproducibility, with special attention to what journals can do:

ecsrnet.eu/other-events/

At Sociological Science, we're now requiring data and code.
Crisis? What Crisis? Sociology's Slow Progress Toward Scientific Transparency

Sociology's epistemic & methodological fragmentation (+ ASA) preclude top-down initiatives, but weak core also sets stage for rapid, if delayed, diffusion across quant soc networks.

hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/6oi846rx...
January 11, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Reposted by Katrin Auspurg
The GLEN team sends Season's Greetings to you and your loved ones! Enjoy the holidays!
December 23, 2023 at 2:12 PM
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We are happy to announce the new DFG-funded longterm German Longitudinal Environmental Study (GLEN).
@glen-study.bsky.social will provide representative, individual level panel data on human-environmental interactions and climate issues.

glen-studie.de
#sciencenews #Klimawandel #climatechange
December 21, 2023 at 3:28 PM
Ross et al. (Nature, 2022) claim that in most fields women are disadvantaged, but their results show that in only 2 out of 13 fields women are less likely to be granted authorship. For women, it seems that science is not as dismal as reported in the Nature article.
November 12, 2023 at 7:40 PM
"If your data contradicts the common wisdom: ignore your data." It seems that Ross et al. followed this advice when they concluded in their recent Nature article that women are credited less likely authorship in "most scientific fields". See our comment: osf.io/preprints/so...
November 12, 2023 at 7:39 PM
Thanks to AMCIS for inviting me and organizing a wonderful workshop. It was great to learn that there are so many interesting projects with survey experiments planned and carried out at the UvA!
November 12, 2023 at 7:18 PM
Reposted by Katrin Auspurg
Yesterday’s workshop ended with a keynote by @kauspurg.bsky.social on robust design of factorial survey experiments, with proposals for how to incorporate causal inference. We’ve been very fortunate to have Katrin visiting UvA during the last week, giving valuable input to multiple projects.
November 10, 2023 at 3:10 PM
Our study, which uses a longitudinal field experiment during the "European refugee crisis," comes to null- results, see sociologicalscience.com/articles-v10.... Great that we could publish that!
October 11, 2023 at 5:33 PM

More immigration, more ethnic discrimination? I am happy that the joint article with Renate Lorenz and Andreas Schneck has now appeared open access in Sociological Science.
October 11, 2023 at 5:32 PM