Behavioral Medicine and Research Credibility Laboratory

The research group aims to do research on meta-science and pursue innovation in research methods leading to greater scientific rigor.

The activities of the research group fall into two main categories: research, and methods development.

1. 1) We conduct research on the scientific process, on researchers’ behaviours’, and on research culture with the focus on credibility and trustworthiness of researchers and research studies.
2. 2) We develop and apply methodologies aiming to improve reliability, credibility, and rigor of studies and research reports. This includes methods enabling greater standardization and automation in science. We also aim to develop and implement interventions of cultural change in the scientific community leading to increased motivation, knowledge, and skill to produce rigorous research.

Our research group supports diversity treating everyone equally and with respect regardless of their nationality, race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, family status, disabilities, or religious beliefs, etc. This also includes supporting diversity in psychological science by extending research from focusing on Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) samples to more diverse samples.

Management

• Zoltán Kekecs

Members

• Balázs Alexa
• Flóra Bajcsai
• Vivien Belegrai
• Zsuzsanna Besnyő
• Lili Csabai
• Boglárka Cserni
• Bálint Dömök
• Dóra Egri
• Yeganeh Farahzadi
• Dorka Fenyvesi
• Borbála Kaproncai
• Márk Lechner
• Balázs Nyiri
• Árpád Palágyi
• Virág Varga
• Azadeh Zandi

External members

• Pietro Rizzo