David is currently a PhD student at Heidelberg University & GESIS bridging the gap between Cognitive Psychology & Measurement Theory.
He is Editor of the Psychology section of the Journal of Trial & Error, striving to embrace the Center's openness concept of publishing & academic exchange for Psychology.
Folco Panizza, Thomas Camminga, Stefan Gaillard & David Joachim Grüning
Harjani et al. (2023) conducted a gamified inoculation intervention against misinformation in rural India. Despite the ingenuity of the intervention design, the study revealed no significant effects on participants' ability to detect misinformation, highlighting cultural and digital barriers to…
Sarahanne Field, Stefan D.M. Gaillard, David Joachim Grüning & Alex Job Visser
In most industries, error is a problem. Take, for instance, the aviation industry. An error in the calculation of a plane’s gross weight could be catastrophic, as how much a plane weighs directly influences how it needs to be configured for take-off and landing. Countless fatal aviation accidents…
David Grüning
The Better-Than-Average Effect (BTAE, Zell et al., 2020) describes the psychological phenomenon that individuals overestimate their positive characteristics in comparison to others. The BTAE is a special case of a broader phenomenon of self-enhancement effects, which is a robust finding of…
David Grüning
Rapid technological development allows for ever new opportunities to nudge individuals’ behavior and knowledge digitally. The Gloria Adherence Subproject by Hartman et al. (2022) implements such a digital nudge via a mobile device aiming at medication adherence. Besides methodological and practical…
