Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips is a full professor in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Konstanz, where he holds the Chair for Psychological Methods, Assessment, and iScience. Between 2009 and 2013 he was a full-time tenured
IKERBASQUE research professor at
University of Deusto
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in Bilbao, Spain, and remains affiliated with Ikerbasque. Until 2009 he was an assistant professor and lecturer ('Oberassistent') at the Psychology Department of the
University of Zurich
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, Switzerland. He received his PhD in 1997 and his
habilitation (venia legendi, title 'Privatdozent') in 2004 from the
University of Tübingen
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, Germany. In 1992, he received an M.A. in Psychology from
Sonoma State University
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, California. Reips spent most of his undergraduate and graduate years at the University of Tübingen, where he had attended the
Leibniz Kolleg. He majored in both Psychology and General Rhetoric (as a student of
Walter Jens
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He was born in Hamburg, and attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums from 1933 to 1941, when he gained his Ab ...
) and had a minor in Political Science. In 2012, Ulf-Dietrich Reips received a FIRST award from
University of Colorado Boulder
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and is since affiliated on an honorable basis with its Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. Based on his publications' impact and his affiliation with
IKERBASQUE, the
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain, ranked him 7th o
"Top Scientists working at Spanish Private Universities"in 2014. In Fall 2015, Reips was offered to direct the
Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information in Trier, in association with a full professorship for Psychology at University of Trier.
Ulf-Dietrich Reips is working on Internet-based research methodologies (or iScience, Internet science,
online research methods Online research methods (ORMs) are ways in which researchers can collect data via the internet. They are also referred to as Internet research, Internet science or iScience, or Web-based methods. Many of these online research methods are related to ...
), in particular Internet-based psychological experimenting (a method used in
experimental psychology) and Internet-based tests, the psychology of the Internet, measurement, the cognition of causality,
Social Media
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, and
Big Data. In 1994 and 1995 he founded the
Web Experimental Psychology Lab, the first laboratory for conducting real experiments on the
World Wide Web
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Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web ...
. In 1997, he was one of the seven founders of the
German Society for Online Research (DGOF) and wrote a book chapter on the methodology of conducting experiments via the Internet that later won him a young scientist award by the German Society for Psychology. His 2002 article in the journal "Experimental Psychology", ''Standards for Internet-based experimenting'', defined the field and became its journal's most cited article. In 2005, Reips was elected the first non-North American president of the
Society for Computers in Psychology (SCiP).
Ulf-Dietrich Reips is the founding editor of the
International Journal of Internet Science, currently serving (jointly with
Uwe Matzat).
Awards
Ulf-Dietrich Reips and his Web services have received numerous awards, from institutions including the Methods Division of the
German Psychological Society (young scientist award, 1997),
Oxford University
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("key player in the social shaping of e-science and e-social science"),
University of Colorado Boulder
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,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the ...
,
Encyclopædia Britannica
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,
Der Spiegel, “Planet Science”,
Bild der Wissenschaft
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,
New Scientist
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,
The British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...
,
Die Zeit,
IBM, the
American Psychological Society
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, and others. In January 2017 the Society for Computers in Psychology named the 2001 paper "Reips, U.-D. (2001). The Web Experimental Psychology Lab: Five years of data collection on the Internet. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 33, 201-211." one of eight "groundbreaking and influential" articles in the history of the society and the fiel
In 1996 Ulf-Dietrich Reips won in the First Internet Literature competition in Germany, co-organized by the German weekly
Die Zeit and
IBM with his digital poe
"Das Websonett" a digital media variation and ''sonetto di risposta'' on A.W. Schlegel'
Literature theorist
:de:Erika Greber, Erika Greber described the Websonett as "literarisch anspruchsvoll" (literarily sophisticated) and featured a special printable version Reips created on the last page of her compendium on poetological metaphorism and literature theory.
[Greber, E.: Textile Texte. Poetologische Metaphorik und Literaturtheorie: Studien zur Tradition des Wortflechtens und der Kombinatorik. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau, 2002 (Pictura et Poesis 9), p. 701] Reips later created
technically updated version even though all versions remain fully functional in modern web browsers.
Publications
Dimensions of Internet Science (2001)Standards for Internet-based experimenting (2002)Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology (2007)How Internet-mediated research changes science. (2008)*
ttp://www.uni-konstanz.de/iscience/reips/pubs/publications.html Complete list of publications
Web applications
Ulf-Dietrich Reips and his team develop and provide free Web tools for researchers and students.
Social Lab, an open source social networkWEXTOR, the Web experiment generatoriScience Maps, a tool to data mine TwitterVAS Generator, creates visual analogue scales as a response format in questionnairesWeb Experiment List, a list for researchers to post their Internet-based experiments and recruit participants*
ttp://webscience.deusto.es/fbchecker/ Questionnaire Checker, a tool to get feedback on questionnaires one creates
References
External links
Reips page at Google Scholar CitationsReips page at ResearchGateReips page at Academia.eduReips homepageAffiliate University of Colorado BoulderReips Internet Science portaliScience group at Universität KonstanziScience group at Universidad de Deusto*
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Swiss psychologists
Academic staff of the University of Deusto
Academic staff of the University of Konstanz
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)