Ulf-Dietrich Reips is a

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and professor at the

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, where he holds the Chair for Psychological Methods, Assessment, and Science in the Faculty of Science. From 2009 to 2013, he served as an Ikerbasque research professor at the

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, and he continues to be affiliated with Ikerbasque. Prior to that, he worked as an (senior assistant) in the Department of Psychology at the

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Career

Reips received his PhD in 1997 and his

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(venia legendi, title 'Privatdozent') in 2004 from the

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. In 1992, he received an M.A. in Psychology from

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. He completed most of his undergraduate and graduate studies at the

, where he attended the Leibniz Kolleg, majoring in Psychology and General Rhetoric (under the guidance of

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) and minoring in Political Science. In 2012, Reips received a FIRST award from the

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and has since held an honorary affiliation with its Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. Based on his publications' impact and affiliation with Ikerbasque, the

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in Spain ranked him 7th on a list of "Top Scientists working at Spanish Private Universities" in 2014. In the fall of 2015, Reips was offered the directorship of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information in Trier, in conjunction with a full professorship for Psychology at the

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. Ulf-Dietrich Reips' research focuses on internet-based research methodologies (including iScience, internet science, and

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), particularly internet-based psychological experiments (a method used in

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) and internet-based tests. His work also includes the psychology of the internet, measurement, the cognition of causality,

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, and

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. In 1994–1995, he founded the Web Experimental Psychology Lab, noted as the first laboratory for conducting real experiments on the

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. In 1997, he was one of the seven founders of the German Society for Online Research (DGOF). His book chapter on Internet-based experimentation methodology earned him a Young Scientist award from the German Society for Psychology. His 2002 article in

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, ''Standards for Internet-based experimentation'', is cited as influential in the field and became the journal's most cited article. In 2005, Reips was elected the first non-North American president of the Society for Computers in Psychology. Reips is the founding editor of the International Journal of Internet Science, where he served as a joint editor with Uwe Matzat.

Awards

Reips and his Web services have received recognition and awards from various institutions: including the Methods Division of the German Psychological Society (Young Scientist Award, 1997),

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(cited as a "key player in the social shaping of e-science and e-social science"),

, Ben Gurion University of the Negev,

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, and the

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. In January 2017, the Society for Computers in Psychology named his 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 field. In 1996, Reips won the First Internet Literature competition in Germany, co-organized by the German weekly and

, with his digital poem "Das Websonett". This work is a digital media variation and ''sonetto di risposta'' based on A.W. Schlegel's original sonnet. Literature theorist Erika Greber described "Das Websonett" as "literarisch anspruchsvoll" (literarily sophisticated) and featured a special printable version created by Reips on the last page of her compendium on poetological metaphorism and literature theory. Reips later created an additional version. All versions remain 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 network

WEXTOR, the Web experiment generator

iScience Maps, a tool to data mine X (previously Twitter)

VAS Generator, creates visual analogue scales as a response format in questionnaires

Web 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

Career

Awards

Publications

Web applications

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