Credit: Dr. Elisa Berdica

Prof. Dr. Edgar Erdfelder

Senior Professor

erdfelder[at]uni-mannheim.de

University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
A5
B – Room 118
68159 Mannheim

Phone: +49 621 181-2146
Web: sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/erdfelder

Office hours:
after consultation with Prof. Erdfelder

Research Areas
Mathematical and Statistical Modeling
Memory
Judgment and Decision Making
Teaching (SMIP)
Training „Rules of Good Scientific Practice: Principles, Mechanisms, and Tools“
Workshop „Perspectives on Psychological Research“ (together with R. Ulrich)
Foundations II „Multinomial-Processing-Tree (MPT) Modeling“ (together with D. Heck)
Possible thesis topics
Integration of response times in threshold models of recognition memory (Advisors: Erdfelder, Klauer).
The sleep benefit in episodic memory: Does sleep improve maintenance in memory, retrieval from memory, or both? (Advisors: Erdfelder, Ulrich, Kuhlmann).
Separation of storage and retrieval in episodic memory (Advisors: Bröder, Erdfelder, Klauer).
Multinomial processing-tree models of implicit measures of social cognition with response-latency modeling (Advisors: Klauer, Erdfelder).
Identification and separation of decision making processes (Advisors: Hilbig, Bröder, Erdfelder).