Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Life Sciences - Department of Psychology

M.Sc. Louis Schiekiera

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Name
M.Sc. Louis Schiekiera
Status
research assistant
Email
louis.schiekiera (at) hu-berlin.de

Institution
Humboldt-Universität → Präsidium → Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Psychologie → NWG Was ist ein Name? Komputationelle Modellierungen und experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Nicht-Willkürlichkeit von Bezeichnungen
Visiting address
Rudower Chaussee 18 , Room 2'202
Phone number
030 2093-4849
Mailing address
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin

Research

I am a research assistant in the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Computational Modeling at HU Berlin under the supervision of Dr. Fritz Günther. In my research, I am particularly interested in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Computational Cognitive Modeling and Metascience. I am also a PhD student at the Department of Clinical Psychological Intervention, FU Berlin, working on my dissertation “Understanding Publication Bias Using Large Language Models and Behavioral Methods.”

 

Projects

Computational Swinging Lexical Network Model

Goals

In this project, we implement the “Swinging Lexical Network” model (Abdel Rahman & Melinger, 2009, 2019) as a functional computer model. This model assumes that during speech production in the presence of task-irrelevant stimuli (distractors; e.g. the simultaneous presentation of another word when a picture is to be named), similar words to the target stimulus, but also to the distractor, are always activated. If these are then strongly connected to each other, this influences processing differently than if they are barely connected to each other.

We estimate the model parameters from the data sets of many published studies and use the optimized model to make concrete predictions for new stimulus material. These are then investigated in empirical studies.

 

Team

M.Sc. Louis Schiekiera, B.Sc. Vincent Gruber, Dr. Fritz Günther

In cooperation with Prof. Rasha Abdel Rahman (HU Berlin, Neuro-Cognitive Psychology) and Prof. Alissa Melinger (Dundee University)

 

Brief CV

Education

  • PhD Psychology, FU Berlin (2024–)
  • MSc Psychology, Uni Potsdam (2021–2023)
  • BSc Psychology, Uni Hamburg (2018–2021)
  • BA Sociology and Technology Studies, TU Berlin (2014–2018)

 

Work-related experience

  • Research Assistant, HU Berlin (2024–)
  • Research Assistant, FU Berlin (2023–2024)
  • Student Research Assistant in multiple groups at FU Berlin, UKE Hamburg and TU Berlin (2018–2023)

 

Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Accepted

Schiekiera, L., Eichel, K., Sachse, J., Müller, S., Hesselmann, F., & Niemeyer, H. (registered report with in principal acceptance). Publication Bias in Academic Decision Making in Clinical Psychology. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

Published

Schiekiera, L., & Niemeyer, H. (2025). Does Scientific Productivity Increase the Publication of Positive Results? Collabra: Psychology, 11(1), 137035. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.137035

Schiekiera, L., & Niemeyer, H. (2025). Political bias in historiography - an experimental investigation of preferences for publication as a function of political orientation. F1000Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.160170.1

Schiekiera, L., Niemeyer, H., & Diederichs, J. (2024). Classifying Positive Results in Clinical Psychology Using Natural Language Processing. Zeitschrift für Psychologie. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000563
 
Peikert, M. L., Inhestern, L., Krauth, K. A., Escherich, G., Rutkowski, S., Kandels, D., Schiekiera, L., & Bergelt, C. (2021). Fear of progression in parents of childhood cancer survivors: prevalence and associated factors. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-021-01076-w
 

Book chapter

Niemeyer, H., & Schiekiera, L. (2024). How inclusive and equitable is research in clinical psychology that focuses on the Global South? In P. S. Forscher & M. Schmidt (Eds.), A Better How: Notes on Developmental Meta-Research (pp. 72-80). Busara. https://doi.org/10.62372/ISCI6112