Prof. Dr. Aileen Oeberst

Oeberst, A., von der Beck, I., Cress, U., & Nestler, S. (2020). Wikipedia outperforms individuals when it comes to hindsight bias. Psychological Research, 84(6), 1517-1527. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01165-7
 

Oeberst, A., von der Beck, I., Matschke, C., Ihme, T. A., & Cress, U. (2020). Collectively biased representations of the past: Ingroup Bias in Wikipedia articles about intergroup conflicts. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59(4), 791-818. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12356 Open Access
 

Álvarez, G., Oeberst, A., Cress, U., & Ferrari, L. (2020). Linguistic evidence of in-group bias in English and Spanish Wikipedia articles about international conflicts. Discourse, Context & Media, 35, Article 100391. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2020.100391
 

Greving, H., Kimmerle, J., Oeberst, A., & Cress, U. (2019). Emotions in Wikipedia: The role of intended negative events in the expression of sadness and anger in online peer production. Behaviour & Information Technology, 38(8), 796-806. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2018.1554702
 

Oeberst, A. (2019). Der Rückschaufehler im juristischen Kontext: Relevante psychologische Forschung, begründete Spekulationen und Schlussfolgerungen für die Praxis. Rechtswissenschaft, 10(2), 180-203. https://dx.doi.org/10.5771/1868-8098-2019-2-180
 

Oeberst, A., & Matschke, C. (2019). Black sheep are not black in Wikipedia. Comparing descriptions of perpetrators in the language version of the perpetrator in-group to other (out-group) language versions. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null-Hypothesis, 15, 107-120. request document
 

von der Beck, I., Cress, U., & Oeberst, A. (2019). Is there hindsight bias without real hindsight? Conjectures are sufficient to elicit hindsight bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25(1), 88-99. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000185
 

Greving, H., Oeberst, A., Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2018). Emotional content in Wikipedia articles on negative man-made and nature-made events. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 37, 267-287. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261927X17717568
 

Oeberst, A., von der Beck, I., Back, M., Cress, U., & Nestler, S. (2018). Biases in the production and reception of collective knowledge: The case of hindsight bias in Wikipedia. Psychological Research, 82, 1010-1026. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0865-7
 

Jirschitzka, J., Oeberst, A., Göllner, R., & Cress, U. (2017). Inter-rater reliability and validity of peer reviews in an interdisciplinary field. Scientometrics, 113, 1059-1092. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2516-6
 

Lamberty, P., Hellmann, J. H., & Oeberst, A. (2017). The winner knew it all? Conspiracy beliefs and hindsight perspective after the 2016 US general election. Personality and Individual Differences, 123, 236-240. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.033 request document
 

Nestler, S., Leckelt, M., Back, M.D., von der Beck, I., Cress U., & Oeberst A. (2017). Produktion von naturwissenschaftlichen Informationen im Internet am Beispiel von Wikipedia. Psychologische Rundschau, 68, 172-176. https://dx.doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000360
 

Oeberst, A., & Matschke, C. (2017). Word order and world order: Titles of intergroup conflicts may increase ethnocentrism by mentioning the in-group first. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 672-690. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000300 request document
 

Stürmer, S., Oeberst, A., Trötschel, R., & Decker, O. (2017). Kommentar zur “Stellungnahme zur Lage des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in der Psychologie” von Rentzsch et al. Psychologische Rundschau, 68(4), 270-272.
 

Stürmer, S., Oeberst, A., Trötschel, R., & Decker, O. (2017). Early-Career Researchers' Perceptions of the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices, Potential Causes and Open Science. Social Psychology, 48, 365-371. https://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a0000324
 

von der Beck, I., Oeberst, A., Cress, U., & Nestler, S. (2017). Cultural interpretations of global information? Hindsight bias after reading Wikipedia articles across cultures. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31, 315-325. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.3329
 

Goeckenjan, I., & Oeberst, A. (2016). Aus Schaden wird man klug? Die Bedeutung des Rückschaufehlers (Hindsight Bias) für die Strafrechtsanwendung. Recht und Psychiatrie, 34, 27-34.
 

Oeberst, A., & Goeckenjan, I. (2016). When being wise after the event results in injustice: Evidence for hindsight bias in judges' negligence assessments. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 22, 271-279. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000091
 

Oeberst, A., & Moskaliuk, J. (2016). Classic conversational norms in modern computer-mediated collaboration. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 19, 187-198. request document
 

Gnambs, T., Appel, M., & Oeberst, A. (2015). Red color and risk taking behaviour in online environments. PLoS ONE, 10(7):e0134033. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134033 Open Access
 

Kimmerle, J., Moskaliuk, J., Oeberst, A., & Cress, U. (2015). Learning and collective knowledge construction with social media: A process-oriented perspective. Educational Psychologist, 50, 120-137. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2015.1036273
 

Oeberst, A. (2015). How good are future lawyers in judging the accuracy of reminiscent details? The estimation-observation gap in real eyewitness accounts. The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 7, 73-79. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpal.2015.03.002 Open Access
 

Oeberst, A., Haberstroh, S., & Gnambs, T. (2015). Not really the same: Computerized and real lotteries in decision making research. Computers in Human Behavior, 44, 250-257. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.10.060 request document
 

Oeberst, A., & Lindner, I. (2015). Unannounced memory tests are not necessarily unexpected by participants. Test expectation and its consequences in the repeated test paradigm. Cognitive Processing, 16, 269-278. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-015-0663-3 request document
 

Oeberst, A., & Wu, S. (2015). Independent vs. interdependent self-construal and interrogative compliance: Intra- and cross-cultural evidence. Personality and Individual Differences, 85, 50-55. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.04.038 request document
 

Oeberst, A., & Haberstroh, S. (2014). Do we overestimate relatively or absolutely rare events? Paired distinctiveness in experience based decisions. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 73, 193-204. https://dx.doi.org/10.1024/1421-0185/a000138 request document
 

Oeberst, A., Halatchliyski, I., Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2014). Knowledge construction in Wikipedia: A systemic-constructivist analysis. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 23, 149-176.
 

Oeberst, A., & Seidemann, J. (2014). Will your words become mine? Underlying processes and co-witness intimacy in the memory conformity paradigm. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, 84-96. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cep0000014 request document
 

Oeberst, A., von der Beck, I., & Nestler, S. (2014). Reading about explanations enhances perceptions of inevitability and foreseeability. A cross-cultural study with Wikipedia articles. Cognitive Processing, 15, 343-349. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10339-014-0603-7 request document
 

Schweiger, S., Oeberst, A., & Cress, U. (2014). Confirmation bias in web-based search: A randomized online study on the effects of expert information and social tags on information search and evaluation. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 16, e94. https://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.3044 [Data]
 

Oeberst, A. (2012). If anything else comes to mind… better keep it to yourself? Delayed recall is discrediting – unjustifiably. Law and Human Behavior, 36, 266-274. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0093966 request document
 

Oeberst, A., & Blank, H. (2012). Undoing suggestive influence on memory: the reversibility of the eyewitness misinformation effect. Cognition, 125, 141-159. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.009 request document
 

Cress, U., Barron, B., Halatchliyski, I., Oeberst, A., Forte, A., Resnick, M., & Collins, A. (2013). Mass collaboration - an emerging field for CSCL research. In N. Rummel, M. Kapur, N. Nathan, & S. Puntambekar (Eds.), To see the world and a grain of sand: Learning across levels of space, time and scale: CSCL 2013 Proceedings (Vol. I, pp. 557-563). Madison, USA: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
 

Halatchliyski, I., Oeberst, A., Bientzle, M., Bokhorst, F., & van Aalst, J. (2012). Unraveling idea development in discourse trajectories. In J. van Aalst, K. Thompson, M. J. Jacobson, & P. Reimann (Eds.), The future of learning: Proceedings of the 10th international conference of the learning sciences (Vol. II, pp. 162-166). Sydney, NSW, Australia: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
 

Oeberst, A., de Vreeze, J., & Cress, U. (2018). The norm of neutrality in collaborative knowledge construction: A comparison between Wikipedia and the extreme right-wing Metapedia. In O. Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, G. Wittum, & A. Dengel (Eds.), Positive Learning in the Age of Information (PLATO) – A blessing or a curse? (pp. 209-219). Wiesbaden: Springer.
 

Oeberst, A., Cress, U., Back, M., & Nestler, N. (2016). Individual versus collaborative information processing: The case of biases in Wikipedia. In U. Cress, J. Moskaliuk, & H. Jeong (Eds.), Mass collaboration and education (pp. 165-185). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
 

Oeberst, A., Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2016). What is knowledge? Who creates it? Who possesses it? The need for novel answers to old questions. In U. Cress, J. Moskaliuk, & H. Jeong (Eds.), Mass collaboration and education (pp. 105-124). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
 

von der Beck, I., Oeberst, A., Cress, U., Back, M., & Nestler, S. (2015). Hätte die Geschichte auch anders verlaufen können? Der Rückschaufehler zu Ereignissen in Wikipedia. In T. Wozniak, U. Rohwedder, & J. Nemit (Eds.), Wikipedia und die Geschichtswissenschaften (pp. 155-174). Berlin: De Gruyter Open. http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110376357/9783110376357-012/9783110376357-012.xml
 

Oeberst, A. (2015). Interview zum Thema "Können wir Wikipedia trauen?" Radio Kiepenkerl, Dülmen.
 

Oeberst, A. (2015). Interview zum Thema "Rückschau auf Katastrophen". SWR2 Impuls – das Wissensmagazin, Baden-Baden.
 

Oeberst, A., & Bromme, R. (2015). Interview zum Thema "Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit". Deutschlandfunk .
 

Oeberst, A., & Kneer, J. (2015). Editorial zur Themenausgabe: Medienpsychologie Teil 2: Medien, Nachrichten und wir. InMind, 5. http://de.in-mind.org/article/editorial-zur-themenausgabe-medienpsychologie-teil-2-medien-nachrichten-und-wir
 

Kneer, J., & Oeberst, A (2014). Editorial zur Themenausgabe: „Medienpsychologie Teil 1: Chancen und Herausforderungen der Mediennutzung im Bereich Lernen und Gesundheit“. InMind, 3. http://de.in-mind.org/article/editorial-zur-themenausgabe-medienpsychologie-teil-1-chancen-und-herausforderungen-der
 

Oeberst, A. (2012). Wissenschaft: Wissen schaffen. Gemeinsam. Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde, 86, 383-388.
 

Oeberst, A. (2011). Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst (und was vielleicht nicht existiert) - scheinbare Ursachen und reale Konsequenzen. InMind, 3.
 

Krebs, M.-C., & Oeberst, A. (2019, September). What’s in a name? Self-selection to online environments and collaborative biases. 11th Conference of the Media Psychology Division of the German Psychological Society (MediaPsych). Chemnitz, Germany. [Talk]
 

Krebs, M.-C., van der Beck, I., & Oeberst, A. (2019, September). Does the name matter? Investigating the effect of agenda-specific names of online encyclopedias on collaborative biases and self-selection. 17. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (FGSP). Köln, Germany. [Talk]
 

de Vreeze, J., & Oeberst, A. (2019, August). Audience tuning on Wikipedia. Summer Psychology Forum (SPF) 2019: Big Data in Personality and Social Psychology. St. Louis, USA. [Poster]
 

Oeberst, A. (2018, March). Hindsight Bias (and Law). Invited talk at the Seminar of the Spanish AIPPI (Asociación Internacional para la Protección de la Propriedad Industrial e intelectual) group. Madrid, Spain. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A. (2018, März). Der Rückschaufehler in der psychologischen Forschung. Eingeladener Vortrag auf der Tagung "Rückschaufehler im Recht". Ruhr Universität Bochum. [Vortrag]
 

Oeberst, A. (2018, November). Internationale Konflikte in Wikipedia. Eingeladener Vortrag an den Beruflichen Schulen Reutlingen. Reutlingen. [Vortrag]
 

von der Beck, I., & Oeberst, A. (2018, June). What's in a name? How labels of online-encyclopedias attract (certain) users and foster or attenuate bias. 16th International Conference on Language & Social Psychology (ICLASP 16). Edmonton, AB, Canada. [Poster]
 

Greving, H., Oeberst, A., Kimmerle, J., & Cress, U. (2017, July). Collectively angry? Emotional content in Wikipedia articles on negative man-made and nature-made events. 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Granada, Spain. [Poster]
 

Oeberst, A. (2017, July). National Points of View. Intergroup Bias in Wikipedia articles about intergroup conflicts. 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Granada, Spain. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A. (2017, September). "Auch Deutsche unter den Toten" - Selektive Berichterstattung in den Medien und ihre Konsequenzen. 16. Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie (FGSP). Ulm. [Vortrag]
 

Oeberst, A. (2017, June). On war and death: Bias where you might not expect it. Expra-Kongress. Université Luxembourg, Luxembourg. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A., & von der Beck, I. (2017, June). Ingroup Bias in Wikipedia articles about intergroup conflicts? 1st International Symposium of Intergroup Communication (ISIC). Thessaloniki, Greece. [Talk]
 

von der Beck, I., & Oeberst, A. (2017, July). Is there hindsight bias without hindsight? 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Granada, Spain. [Talk]
 

von der Beck, I., Oeberst, A., & Cress, U. (2017, September). Kollektiv einer Meinung? Der Eigengruppenfehler in Konfliktbeschreibungen der Wikipedia. 16. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (FGSP 2017). Ulm. [Vortrag]
 

Greving, H., Oeberst, A., & Cress, U. (2016, September). Kollektiv verärgert berichtet? Ergebnisse zu Berichten über Terroranschläge auf Wikipedia. 50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). Leipzig. [Poster]
 

Oeberst, A. (2016, January). Word order and world order. Ethnocentrism reinforces itself in titles of intergroup conflict. Eingeladener Vortrag beim Kolloquium der Sozialpsychologie, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie sowie Diagnostik & Methoden. Universität Osnabrück. [Talk]
 

von der Beck, I., & Oeberst, A. (2016, September). Nichts genaues weiß man nicht - oder doch? Rückschaufehler auf Spekulationsbasis. 50. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). Leipzig. [Vortrag]
 

Oeberst, A. (2015, Oktober). National Points of View: Internationale Konflikte und ihre Darstellung in Wikipedia. GEI (Georg-Eckert-Institut - Leibniz-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung). Braunschweig. [Vortrag]
 

Oeberst, A. (2015, September). Können wir Wikipedia trauen? Psychologische Fehler beim Verfassen und Lesen von Wikipedia Artikeln. SPP1409 Abschlusstagung. Münster. [Vortrag]
 

Oeberst, A., & Matschke, C. (2015, September). “Wir” kommen zuerst und “sie” danach. Ethnozentrismus in und durch Kriegsnamen. 15. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie. Potsdam. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A., & von der Beck, I. (2015, Juli). Können wir Wikipedia vertrauen? IB Berufliche Schulen. Tübingen. [Vortrag]
 

von der Beck, I., & Oeberst, A. (2015, February). Can reading Wikipedia articles increase hindsight bias? Evidence from a cross-cultural approach. 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Long Beach, USA. [Poster]
 

von der Beck, I., Oeberst, A., Cress, U., Nestler, S., & Back, M. (2015, September). Hindsight Bias 2.0 - Der Rückschaufehler durch Wikipedia. 15. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (FGSP 2015). Potsdam. [Poster]
 

Meitz, T. G. K., Wilhelm, C., Papenmeier, F., Maurer, A., Oeberst, A., Schwan, S., & Huff, M. (2014, May). Experiencing sports entertainment in the light of fan group involvement. 64th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). Seattle, WA, USA. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A. (2014, November). Collective Biases? Hindsight Bias and Ingroup Bias in Wikipedia. Kolloquium der Sozial- und Wirtschaftspsychologie. Universität Koblenz-Landau. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A. (2014, Juni). „Im Nachhinein ist man immer schlauer.“ Der Rückschaufehler in und durch Wikipedia. Kolloquium „Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wikicommons – Arbeitsmittel der Geschichtswissenschaft?“. Universität Marburg. [Vortrag]
 

Oeberst, A. (2014, October). Automatic Text Analysis. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien. Tübingen. [Workshop Organisation]
 

Oeberst, A. (2014, July). Ingroup Bias in international conflicts – also in Wikipedia? Self and Identity Preconference of the European Association of Social Psychology. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A. (2014, May). Individual vs. collaborative information processing: The case of biases in Wikipedia. International Workshop on Mass Collaboration and Education. Tübingen. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A., von der Beck, I., & Nestler, S. (2014, July). Hindsight bias 2.0. Are representations of events in Wikipedia distorted? 17th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Amsterdam,The Netherlands. [Poster]
 

von der Beck, I., Oeberst, A., & Nestler, S. (2014, July). Cognitive aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Can reading Wikipedia articles increase individual hindsight bias? 17th General Meeting of the European Association of Psychology. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [Poster]
 

Halatchliyski, I., Oeberst, A., Bientzle, M., Bokhorst, F., & van Aalst, J. (2012, July). Unraveling idea development in discourse trajectories. 10th International Conference of the learning sciences. Sydney, NSW, Australia. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A. (2012, Juni). Hindsight Bias 2.0. Der Rückschaufehler in und durch Wikipedia. Kolloquium der Persönlichkeitspsychologie. Universität Münster. [Vortrag]
 

Oeberst, A., Halatchliyski, I., & Cress, U. (2012, July). Collaborative knowledge construction under highly uncertain circumstances: The case of Fukushima in Wikipedia. WikiAcademy. Berlin. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A., & Nestler, S. (2012, April). Hindsight Bias 2.0. Der Rückschaufehler in und durch Wikipedia. 54. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Mannheim. [Vortrag]
 

Oeberst, A. (2011, August). Unintended/unwanted metacognition. Test expectancy and rehearsal in the repeated test paradigm. International Conference on Memory. York, United Kingdom. [Talk]
 

Haberstroh, S., & Oeberst, A. (2010, November). Experience-based decisions and paired distinctiveness of rare events. 31. Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. St. Louis, USA. [Poster]
 

Haberstroh, S., & Oeberst, A. (2010, January). Applying paired distinctiveness to experience-based decisions. 11. Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Las Vegas, USA. [Poster]
 

Oeberst, A. (2010, März). Wenn wir nicht bedenken, dass sie mitdenken.ur Testerwartung in Gedächtnisexperimenten mit wiederholten Tests. 52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Saarbrücken. [Vortrag]
 

Oeberst, A. (2010, Juni). Undoing suggestive influence. The reversibility of the misinformation effect. Workshop im Rahmen der Bonn Psychology Lectures mit Elizabeth Loftus. Bonn. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A. (2009, September). Wenn Ihnen noch etwas einfällt.ehalten Sie es lieber für sich? Wie reminiszente Details in ihrer Genauigkeit unterschätzt werden und dies juristische Entscheidungen beeinflussen könnte. 12. Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie. Luxemburg. [Vortrag]
 

Haberstroh, S., & Oeberst, A. (2008, November). The overweighting of rare events and sample size. 29. Conference of the Society for Judgement and Decision Making. Chicago. [Poster]
 

Oeberst, A. (2008, März). How can we optimize remembering? 50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Marburg. [Talk]
 

Oeberst, A., Pöpel, N., & Pruss, L. (2007, February). Mood and memory accuracy. The role of mood and action / state orientation on eyewitness reports. 2. International Symposium „Integrative Competences and Health“. Osnabrück. [Poster]
 

Pruss, L., Oeberst, A., & Pöpel, N. (2007, März). Gut drauf - aber falsch informiert? Experimentelle Befunde zum Einfluss unterschiedlicher Stimmungen auf den Falschinformationseffekt. 49. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. Trier. [Poster]
 

Pöpel, N., & Oeberst, A. (2007, September). Moody misinformation effect. 11. Fachgruppentagung Sozialpsychologie. Freiburg. [Poster]
 

Oeberst, A., & Blank, H. (2006, März). Falschinformationseffekt: Stabilität und Reversibilität. 48. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologe. Mainz. [Vortrag]
 

Cress, U., Oeberst, A., & Kimmerle, J. (2014). International Workshop on Mass Collaboration and Education. Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien. Tübingen, 21.-23.05.2014.
 

Oeberst, A. (2011). Wissen schaffen in Netzwerken: Anmerkungen zu Austausch, Diversität und Mainstream. raumnachrichten.de. http://www.raumnachrichten.de/diskussionen/1162-humangeographie#aileenoeberst
 

Schweiger, S., Oeberst, A., & Cress, U. (2014). Confirmation Bias in Web-Based Search: A Randomized Online Study on the Effects of Expert Information and Social Tags on Information Search and Evaluation. https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3358127 [Publication]