Paul Riesthuis

From expert consensus to large language models: What information is needed to determine and justify a contextualized smallest effect size of interest?

As psychological science is shifting from traditional null-hypothesis significance testing toward interval-based hypothesis testing, researchers have to determine and justify what the smallest effect size is that matters practically or theoretically, also known as the smallest ef...

Limits of the illusory truth effect for social-political opinions: Evidence from two experiments and a mini meta-analysis

Repeated exposure to information often increases its perceived truthfulness, a phenomenon known as the illusory truth effect. Although this effect is well established for factual statements, it remains unclear whether repetition similarly influences truth judgments for evaluative...