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Anna van 't Veer

Assistant professor

Name
Dr. A.E. van 't Veer
Telephone
+31 71 527 1822
E-mail
a.e.van.t.veer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2733-1841

Dr. Anna van ’t Veer is an assistant professor at the Methodology and Statistics unit focusing on responsible research methods.

More information about Anna van 't Veer

Short CV

I'm an assistant professor at the Methodology and Statistics unit of Psychology, with a focus on (advancing) research integrity, open science, meta science, and transparency for the improvement of (psychological) science. I work on theory and implementation of methodologies and practices that make science more transparent and self-correcting, such as replication, preregistration, and large-scale team efforts. 

I am a community manager for the Open Science Community Leiden, and chair of the Dutch network of Open Science Communities (OSC-NL: https://www.osc-nl.com/).

The courses I teach include Good Research Practices, Responsible Research in Practice, fMRI Data and Statistics, and Scientific Conduct for PhD students.

I am actively involved in open science and scientific integrity initiatives and policy-making, and conduct meta-scientific and scientometric studies in this area. I was one of the first researchers in psychology to publish a Registered Report, I co-founded the Open Science Community Leiden, and serve on the board of the national network of Open Science Communities. I have acted as an editor at Collabra: Psychology, contributed to the Ethics Committee of the Psychological Science Accelerator (a global lab network), and as member of the Code of Conduct Committee of the Society for Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) and national events like the Open Science festival. 

Google scholar page: https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=D7GrpBIAAAAJ&hl=en

Research

Dr. Anna van ‘t Veer’s research focuses on developing and improving methods that are used in psychological science. Keywords are (promoting) open science, meta science, research integrity and transparency. She is actively involved in open science initiatives, resulting in publications on replication and pre-registration and collaborations with other experts in this area. With this network, she has published about models for large-scale collaborations to enhance scientific value, and she has conducted such large-scale projects. Current projects involve research integrity and estimating which of many original findings is are most valuable to put our replication efforts towards (see Exploratory Report in Cortex).

Nosek, B. A., Beck, E. D., Campbell, L., Flake, J. K., Hardwicke, T. E., Mellor, D. T., van 't Veer, A. E., & Vazire, S. (2019). Preregistation is hard, and worthwhile. Trends in cognitive sciences, 23(10), 815-818.

Isager, P. M., van Aert, R. C. M., Bahník, Š., Brandt, M. J., DeSoto, K. A., Giner-Sorolla, R., … Lakens, D. (2020, September 2). Deciding what to replicate: A formal definition of “replication value” and a decision model for replication study selection. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/2gurz

Teaching

Dr. Anna van ‘t Veer teaches courses in the bachelor's programmes of Psychology (e.g., Good Research Practices, Perspective on Career Planning), in the (research) master's programmes of Psychology (e.g., Responsible Research in Practice, fMRI Data and Statistics), and in the Graduate School for Social Sciences (Scientific Conduct for PhD's and Postdocs).

Co-supervision of PhD candidates

Grants

  • Open Science fund (2023): Fostering a national Community-led network to accelerate Open Science practices: Foster OSC-NL. https://www.researchequals.com/modules/q5k9-bsxw 
  • Center for Open Science Replication Grant (2013): “Reproducibility grant proposal: Prescribed optimism, Is it right to be wrong about the future?” (with Bethany Lassetter & Mark J. Brandt). See for the completed replication report: https://osf.io/8u5v2/
  • EASP travel grant to visit professor Dan Ariely at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, February-March 2014.
  • Graduate Student Travel Award from SPSP for research on interoception and moral judgments presented in a symposium on morality, Long Beach, California, February 2015.

Relevant links

Selected Publications

On replication:

  • Isager, P. M., van Aert, R. C. M., Bahník, Š., Brandt, M. J., DeSoto, K. A., Giner-Sorolla, R., Krueger, J. I., Perugini, M., Ropovik, I., van 't Veer, A. E., Vranka, M., & Lakens, D. (2021). Deciding what to replicate: A decision model for replication study selection under resource and knowledge constraints. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000438 
  • Brandt, M. J., IJzerman, H., Dijksterhuis, A., Farach, F. J., Geller, J., Giner-Sorolla, R., Grange, J. A., Perugini, M., Spies, J. R., & van 't Veer, A. E. (2013). The replication recipe: What makes for a convincing replication? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50, 217-224 see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103113001819
  • Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349, 6251, 943. aac4716. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716 see: https://osf.io/447b3


On preregistration:

  • Nosek, B. A., Beck, E. D., Campbell, L., Flake, J. K., Hardwicke, T. E., Mellor, D. T., van 't Veer, A. E., & Vazire, S. (2019). Preregistation is hard, and worthwhile. Trends in Cognitive Scienceshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.07.009
  • van ‘t Veer, A. E., Giner-Sorolla, R. (2016). Pre-registration in Social Psychology—A discussion and suggested template. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.03.004 see: https://osf.io/sn6by/

About open science / open data:

  • Armeni, K., Brinkman, L., Carlsson, R., Eerland, A., Fijten, R., Fondberg, R., Heininga, V. E., Heunis, S., Koh, W. Q., Masselink, M., Moran, N., O Baoill, A., Sarafoglou, A., Schettino, A., Schwamm, H., Sjoerds, Z., Teperek, M., van den. Akker, O. R., van ‘t Veer, A. E. & Zurita-Milla, R. (2021). Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices: The role of open science communities. Science and Public Policy, 48(5), 605-611. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scab039 
  • van ’t Veer, A. E., Sleegers, W. W. A. (2019). Psychology data from an exploration of the effect of anticipatory stress on disgust vs. non-disgust related moral judgments. Journal of Psychology Data , 7(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.43

Selected manuals

  • Hafkemeijer, A., & van ’t Veer, A. E. (2018). Manual for resting state fMRI analysis: Preprocessing, network and seed-based dual regression. Retrieved from osf.io/qawdt
  • Van ’t Veer, A. E. (2017, March). Pre-registering research in Child Development: Why, when, what, and how. Retrieved from osf.io/cky48
  • van ’t Veer, A.E., Hafkemeijer, A., van Steenbergen, H., Bas-Hoogendam, J.M. (2017, March). Philips B0 unwarping in FSL FEAT on a cluster or locally. Retrieved from osf.io/yxcpn
    This manual describes how to pre-process and use a B0 map to correct other fMRI scans for distortions due to field inhomogeneities. It can be found here: https://osf.io/hks7x/ (>300 downloads), and it is recommended by the people behind FSL (one of the major software packages for MRI data analysis, see: https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki/FUGUE/Guide#Non-SIEMENS_data).
  • van ’t Veer, A.E. (2016, May). Public template for pre-registration.
    This template accompanies van ‘t Veer & Giner-Sorolla (2016)(see above), and it is incorporated in the website of the Open Science Framework: anyone who creates a project page for their research can use the registration function to time-stamp their hypotheses, methods and analysis plan according to this manual, after which a permanent link to the frozen registration can be shared with reviewers and in papers (> 500 preregistrations with this template  in the first 1.5 years since publication). It can be found here: https://osf.io/56g8e/. An R package is available here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/prereg/prereg.pdf

Assistant professor

  • Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
  • Instituut Psychologie
  • Methodologie & Statistiek

Work address

Pieter de la Court
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden
Room number 3B12

Contact

Publications

  • Stichting Open Science Communities (OSC-NL) Bestuurslid
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