Member of the Knowledge Construction Lab
Since August 2022, Maren Mayer has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Knowledge Construction lab. In this position, her research involves sequential collaboration; a process in which contributors consecutively add, change, or maintain information as it can be also observed in Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap. She especially focuses on forming judgments and estimates through sequential collaboration as well as gathering and sharing information.
Maren Mayer studied psychology at the University of Mannheim and completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s there before starting her Ph.D. on Wisdom of Crowds at the WIN project "Heterogeneity and Convergence in Shared Data Sources", funded by the Heidelberg Academie of Sciences and Humanities. During her Ph.D. she was also an associated member of the research training group Statistical Modeling in Psychology.
Sequential collaboration as a method of group information sharing
Using sequential collaboration to aggregate judgments into accurate estimates
Improving group decision making with sequential collaboration
Mayer, M., Heck, D. W., & Kimmerle, J. (in press). Opting out in computer-supported sequential collaboration. Computers in Human Behavior.
Mayer, M., & Heck, D. W. (2024). Sequential collaboration: The accuracy of dependent, incremental judgments. Decision, 11, 212–237. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000193
Open Access
Mayer, M., Broß, M., & Heck, D. W. (2023). Expertise determines frequency and accuracy of contributions in sequential collaboration. Judgment and Decision Making, 18, Article e2. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jdm.2023.3
Open Access
Mayer, M., & Heck, D. W. (2023). Cultural consensus theory for two-dimensional location judgments. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 113, Article 102742. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2022.102742
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Mayer, M., & Ramon, M. (2023). Improving forensic perpetrator identification with Super-Recognizers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(20), Article e2220580120. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220580120
Open Access
Mayer, M., Heck, D. W., & Mocnik, F.-B. (2020). Shared mental models as a psychological explanation for converging mental representations of place – the example of OpenStreetMap. In B. Mocnik & R. Westerholt (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Platial Information Science (PLATIAL'19) (pp. 43-50). https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3628871
Mayer, M., & Ramon, M. (2023). How can super-recognizers help police investigations? Science Journal for Kids and Teens, November 2023(4), 1-4. https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how-can-super-recognizers-help-police-investigations/
Mayer, M., & Heck, D. W. (2024, September 4-6). Understanding judgment aggregation with sequential collaboration: A computational modeling approach. European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting 2024. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. [Talk]
Mayer, M., & Heck, D. W. (2024, March 3). Modeling sequential collaboration: exploring cognitive mechanisms of collaborative judgments. 66. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen (TeaP); 66th Conference of Experimental Psychologists. Universität Regensburg. [Talk]
Mayer, M. (2023, March 26-29). Advice taking and beyond: Judgment formation via advice taking, sequential collaboration, and belief updating. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) 2023. Trier. [Symposium Organisation]
Mayer, M., & Heck, D. W. (2023, November 16-19). Sequential collaboration: Enhancing judgment aggregation through experts' iterative contributions. 64th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. San Francisco, CA, USA. [Poster]
Mayer, M., & Heck, D. W. (2023, March 26-29). Sequential collaboration: Aggregating judgments in a dependent, incremental manner. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) 2023. Trier. [Talk]
Mayer, M., & Ramon, M. (2023, May 4-5). Improving forensic perpetrator identification with Super-Recognizers. European Police Congress, Symposium „Gesichtserkennung – Super-Recognizer“. Berlin. [Talk]
Mayer, M., & Rebholz, T. R. (2023, November 17-20). The influence of expertise and anchor relevance on anchoring effects. Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. San Francisco, CA, USA. [Poster]
Mayer, M., & Heck, D. W. (2022, September 10-15). The role of opting out of giving a judgment for the accuracy of wisdom of crowds and sequential collaboration. 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs). Hildesheim. [Talk]
Dr. Maren Mayer
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