Curriculum Vitae

2023

Isager, P. M., Lakens, D., van Leeuwen, T., & van’t Veer, A. E. (2024). Exploring a formal approach to selecting studies for replication: A feasibility study in social neuroscience. Cortex, 171, 330-346.

Buchanan, E. M., Lewis, S. C., Paris, B., Forscher, P. S., Pavlacic, J. M., Beshears, J. E., … Isager, P. M., … & Vega, D. (2023). The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Scientific data, 10(1), 87.

Pittelkow, M. M., Field, S. M., Isager, P. M., van’t Veer, A. E., Anderson, T., Cole, S. N., … & Van Ravenzwaaij, D. (2023). The process of replication target selection in psychology: what to consider?. Royal Society Open Science, 10(2), 210586.

2022

Dorison, C. A., Lerner, J. S., Heller, B. H., Rothman, A. J., Kawachi, I. I., Wang, K., … Isager, P. M., … & Pantazi, M. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective science, 3(3), 577-602.

McIntyre, S., Hauser, S. C., Kusztor, A., Boehme, R., Moungou, A., Isager, P. M., … & Olausson, H. (2022). The language of social touch is intuitive and quantifiable. Psychological Science, 33(9), 1477-1494.

2021

Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C. A., Miller, J. K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J. S., … Isager, P. M., … & Štrukelj, E. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature human behaviour, 5(8), 1089-1110.

Isager, P. M., van Aert, R. C. M., Bahník, Š., Brandt, M. J., DeSoto, K. A., Giner-Sorolla, R., … Lakens, D. (2021). Deciding what to replicate: A Decision Model for Replication Study Selection Under Resource and Knowledge Constraints. Psychological Methods, https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000438

Buchanan, E. M., Crain, S. E., Cunningham, A. L., Johnson, H. R., Stash, H., Papadatou-Pastou, M., … Isager, P. M., … & Aczel, B. (2021). Getting Started Creating Data Dictionaries: How to Create a Shareable Data Set. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 4(1), 2515245920928007.

2020

Isager, P. M. (2020, September 28). Test validity defined as d-connection between target and measured attribute: Expanding the causal definition of Borsboom et al. (2004). PsyArxiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/btgsr

Scheel, A. M., Tiokhin, L., Isager, P. M., & Lakens, D. (2020). Why hypothesis testers should spend less time testing hypotheses. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1745691620966795.

Botvinik-Nezer, R., Holzmeister, F., Camerer, C. F., Dreber, A., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., …, Isager, P. M., … & Avesani, P. (2020). Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams. Nature, 582, 84–88, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2314-9

Lakens, D., McLatchie, N., Isager, P. M., Scheel, A. M., & Dienes, Z. (2020). Improving inferences about null effects with Bayes factors and equivalence tests. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B., gby065, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby065

2019

McIntyre, S., Moungou, A., Boehme, R., Isager, P. M., Lau, F., Israr, A., … & Olausson, H. (2019, July). Affective touch communication in close adult relationships. In 2019 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) (pp. 175-180). IEEE.

2018

Moshontz, H., Campbell, L., Ebersole, C. R., IJzerman, H., Urry, H. L., …, Isager, P. M., … Chartier, C. R. (2018). The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology Through a Distributed Collaborative Network. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(4), 501–515. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918797607

Holmgren, J.*, Isager, P. M.,*, Schubert, T. W. (2018). Evidence for magnitude representations of social hierarchies: Size and distance effects. PLOS ONE 13(9), e0203263. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203263. *Joint first-authors

Coles, N., Tiokhin, L., Scheel, A. M., Isager, P., & Lakens, D. (2018). The costs and benefits of replication studies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, [e124]. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18000596

Lakens, D., Scheel, A. M., & Isager, P. M. (2018). Equivalence Testing for Psychological Research: A Tutorial. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(2), 259–269. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918770963

Løseth, G. E., Eikemo, M., Isager, P., Holmgren, J., Laeng, B., Vindenes, V., … & Leknes, S. (2018). Morphine reduced perceived anger from neutral and implicit emotional expressions. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 91, 123-131. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x

Lakens, D., Adolfi, F. G., Albers, C. J., Anvari, F., Apps, M. A., … Isager, P. M., … & Buchanan, E. M. (2018). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(3), 168.

Organization

2024:

Symposium chair; Eindhoven, Netherlands

Chaired and helped organize hackathon discussion at the Perspectives on Psychological Error conference, held at Eindhoven University of Technology.

2020

Symposium chair; Berlin, Germany

Chaired and helped organize symposium at the Reward|EQUATOR conference, held at Charité, Berlin.

2016

Head organizer of dept. research symposium; University of Oslo, Norway

Local symposium communicating department research projects to students. Responsibilities: Securing funding; Recruiting speakers; Promotion; Event logistics, project presentation at event.

Presentations

2020

Psychological Science Accelerator Conference 2020; Online

Silan, M,, Isager, P. M., Szabelska, A., a t almedia, I., Pfuhl, G. Theory and Measurement Projects - Possible Submission Types?

2020

Reward|EQUATOR conference; Berlin, Germany

Isager, P. M. Quantifying the replication value of research findings: Increase the return on investment in replication research.

2019

Tilburg Meta-Research Day; Tilburg, Netherlands

Isager, P. M., van Assen, M. How can meta-research improve the Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) and how can the PSA improve meta-research?

2019

ZPID Open Science; Trier, Germany

Isager, P. M. Quantifying replication value: A formula-based approach to study selection in replication research

2017

International Convention of Psychological Science; Vienna, Austria

Isager P. M., Holmgren J, Schubert T.W. Social status as magnitude: The distance effect in social hierarchies. Part of the symposium Space for Cognition: Consequences of Biases in Spatial Cognition.

Posters

2025

Perspectives on Scientific Error; Bern, Germany

Van ’t Veer, A. E., Freeman, Z., Hoekstra, R., Isager, P. M., Martinovici, A., van Ravenzwaaij, D., & Rasti, S. (2025, January 22). Registered Verification Reports—A model for continual quality control by journals. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/CEH4R

2024

Perspectives on Scientific Error; Eindhoven, Netherlands

L. Breemer, A.E. van ’t Veer, P.M. Isager, T. Heyman, T. van Leeuwen, and M.C. Makel. Replication Prevalence Revisited.

2019

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science; Rotterdam, Netherlands

Peder M. Isager, Anna van ’t Veer, Tobias Nosten, Els Janson, Daniël Lakens. Quantifying Replication Value: A guide in the decision of what to replicate. Poster on OSF: https://osf.io/92ecp

2016

Reading Emotions; Reading, United Kingdom

Isager P. M., Eikemo M, Holmgren J, Nilsen AS, Vindenes V, Johnstone T, Leknes S. Effect of morphine on hedonic evaluation of palatable food images in healthy humans.

2015

Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience, Inaugural symposium; Linköping, Sweden

Isager P. M., Eikemo E, Vindenes V, Leknes S. Effects of \(\mu\)-opioid agonism on reward behavior: subjective liking and disliking of win/loss stimuli.

Abstracts

2020

Psychological Science Accelerator Conference 2020; Online

Silan, M,, Isager P. M. Study Incubation as an Alternative to Standard Peer Review.

2018

Organization for Human Brain Mapping, annual meeting; Singapore

Eikemo, M., Isager, P. M., Lie, S. Ø., Holmgren, J., Nilsen, A. S., Ernst, G., Vindenes, V., Hjørnevik, T., Leknes, S., Johnstone, T., Bayes Factor analysis of pulse, respiration and BOLD signal changes following a low analgesic dose of morphine.

2018

51. Kongress de DGPs; Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Scheel, A. M., Isager, P. M., Lakens, D., Equivalence Testing for Psychological Research.

2018

Society for Social Neuroscience, annual meeting; San Diego, United States

McIntyre, S., Hauser, S.C., Homman, L., Kusztor, A., Isager, P. M., Moungou, A., Nagi, S., Israr, A., Gerling, G. J., Olausson, H., Standardised gestures can be used for interpersonal touch communication.

Programming & data analysis software

• R (expert)
• Excel (working knowledge)
• FSL (brain imaging analysis software - working knowledge)
• Git (working knowledge)
• Matlab (working knowledge)
• SPSS (working knowledge)
• Unix Shell (working knowledge)
• Python (beginner)
• SLURM computer cluster interface (beginner)

Languages

I am fluent in both written and verbal English and Norwegian.