Research Projects
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(Aileen Oeberst, Jort de Vreeze, Marie-Christin Krebs)
A research group, funded by the Leibniz Association, investigates biases in collaborative information processing (e.g., online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia, Conservapedia, etc.) and focuses on three aspects that are expected to exert an influence: (1) norms of the online encyclopedia, (2) audience tuning, and (3) self-selection of users to online-environments.
Project homepage: Collaborative Biases at the IWM Tübingen
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(Aileen Oeberst, Marcel Meurer)
This project is a cooperation with Prof. Dr. Steffen Nestler (University of Münster), that is funded by the German Research Foundation (OE 604/3-1, NE 1485/8-1) and follows up on an earlier project (OE 604/1-1, NE 1485/5-1) and examines hindsight bias in Wikipedia. Specifically, we test several explanations for the finding that only Wikipedia articles about disasters (but not articles about elections, official decisions, personal decisions, scientific discoveries, sports events) contained a hindsight bias. Moreover, we investigate the underlying mechanisms of the reception effects – the finding that biased articles increase hindsight bias in readers of those articles.
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(Aileen Oeberst, Ingke Goeckenjan)
We investigate several biases in information processing (hindsight bias, confirmation bias) in the context of legal decision making (e.g., criminal law, patent law) with professional decision makers or experts (e.g., judges, patent law attorneys).
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(Aileen Oeberst, Lena-Mareike Rode)
How do (negative) media reports about a criminal case affect verdicts? Many studies have investigated this question. We are currently conducting a meta-analysis in order to provide a quantitative summary of previous research.
