email: balazs.aczel at gmail.com       Twitter: @BalazsAczel

Education

• 2006-2009 PhD, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
• 2001-2006 MA, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

 Scientific Interest

• Research Transparency, improving the credibility of psychology research
• Meta-research, Exploring and Amending the effect of human error in the research pipeline
• Decision Improvement Techniques; Measuring everyday irrational decisions
• Choice Architecture, Nudge Techniques
• Process Tracing, Mouse-tracking

 Employment

• 2016 – Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, associate professor
• 2011 – 09.2016 Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary senior lecturer
• 2011 – 06.2011 KGRE University, Budapest, Hungary senior lecturer
• 2009 – 09.2010 Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, Uni. of Cambridge,  research associate 

Courses Taught & Other Faculty Services

• Best Research Practices, Mathematical Statistics, Statistics in R, Philosophy of Science, History of Psychology, Scientific English in Use, Understanding Psychology as a Science, Presenting Experimental Results
• Research Transparency Committee, chair

 Affiliations

• 2018- member, Society for Improving Psychological Science
• 2018- fellow, Psychonomic Society
• 2018- board member, Psychological Science Accelerator, Data and Methodology Committee

Grants and Awards

• National Excellence Program 2012-2013, 2017-2018, 2018-2019
• Hungarian Scientific Research Fund – OTKA 2013-2014
• Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship, 2007, 2008
• Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary, 2004, 2005

Links

OSF projects
Preprints
Google Scholar Profile

 Main Publications

• Aczel, B., Hoekstra, R., Gelman, A., Wagenmakers, E. J., Klugkist, I. G., Rouder, J. N., … & van Ravenzwaaij, D. (2020). Discussion points for Bayesian inference. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(6), 561-563.
• Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Sarafoglou, A., Kekecs, Z., Kucharský, Š., Benjamin, D., … & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2020). A consensus-based transparency checklist. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(1), 4-6.
• Aczel, B. (2019). Low Levels of Wisdom: Foolishness. In R. Sternberg & J. Glück (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 483-499). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108568272.023
• Aczel, B., Palfi, B., Szollosi, A., Kovacs, M., Szaszi, B., Szecsi, P., Zrubka, M., Gronau, Q. F., van den Bergh, D., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2018). Quantifying Support for the Null Hypothesis in Psychology: An Empirical Investigation. ADVANCES IN METHODS AND PRACTICES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 1(3), 357–366. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918773742
• Szaszi, B., Palinkas, R. A., Szollosi, A., Palfi, B., &Aczel, B. (2018). A Systematic Scoping Review of Choice Architecture Interventions: towards a better understanding why and when nudges work. JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING, 31(3), 355-366.
• Aczel, B., Palfi, B., & Szaszi, B. (2017). Estimating the evidential value of significant results in psychological science. PloS one, 12(8), e0182651.
• Aczel B, Palfi B, Kekecs Z (2015).What is stupid?: People’s conception of unintelligent behavior. INTELLIGENCE 53: pp. 51-58.
• Aczel B, Kekecs Z, Bago B, Szollosi A, Foldes A (2015).An empirical analysis of the methodology of automatic imitation research in a strategic context. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE 41:(4) pp. 1049-1062.
• Aczel, B., Bago, B., Foldes., A. (2012). Is there evidence for automatic imitation in a strategic context? PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 279(1741), 3231-3233.
• Aczel, B., Lukacs, B., Komlos, J., Aitken, M. (2011). Unconscious intuition or conscious analysis? Critical issues for the Deliberation-without-Attention paradigm. JOURNAL OF JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING 6(4), 351-358.

Non-academic Interest

–        genealogy research	–        hiking
–        running, swimming	–        classical music