Tom Heyman
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. T.D.P. Heyman
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- t.d.p.heyman@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0565-441X
Tom Heyman is working as an Assistant Professor at the Methodology & Statistics department of the Faculty of Social Sciences, since October of 2019. Before that, he was employed by the KU Leuven (Belgium), where he obtained a PhD in Psychology in 2016, and subsequently worked for three years as a postdoctoral fellow, both financed by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).
Research
During his time at the KU Leuven, Tom Heyman studied the mental lexicon via semantic priming. That is, people tend to recognize words and pictures faster when they first encountered a semantically related stimulus (e.g. the word dog gets recognized faster when people just saw a picture of a cat). By relying on such effects, we can discover the underlying structure of our mental lexicon.
Apart from that, Tom Heyman also did research on language development, distributed semantic models, scalar implicatures, and publication practices. Currently, he focusses on sequential testing, a procedure in which evidence in favor of certain statistical models gets evaluated while the data are being collected, methods to investigate dishonesty, and he also examines whether science is indeed self-correcting.
Teaching
At KU Leuven, Tom Heyman taught in different statistics courses, and he has also given seminars about the Open Science Framework, R Markdown, and responsible research practices like pre-registration, data sharing,… Currently, he is affiliated to the courses Perspective on Career Planning and Bachelorproject Psychology. Furthermore, he is also a Master Thesis Lab Assistant.
Links
Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Methodologie & Statistiek
- Claesen A., Vanpaemel W., Maerten A-S., Verliefde T., Tuerlinckx F. & Heyman T.D.P. (2023), Data sharing upon request and statistical consistency errors in psychology: a replication of Wicherts, Bakker and Molenaar (2011), PLoS ONE 18(4): e0284243.
- Lennep J.P.A. van, Middendorp H. van, Veldhuijzen D.S., Peerdeman K.J., Blythe J.S., Thomaïdou M.A., Heyman T.D.P. & Evers A.W.M. (2023), The optimal learning cocktail for placebo analgesia: a randomized controlled trial comparing individual and combined techniques, The Journal of Pain 24(12): 2240–2256 .
- Pittelkow M.-M., Field S.M., Isager P.M., Veer A.E. van 't, Anderson T., Cole S.N., Dominik T., Giner-Sorolla R., Gok S., Heyman T.D.P., Jekel M., Luke T.J., Mitchell D.B., Peels R., Pendrous R., Sarrazin S., Schauer J.M., Specker E., Tran U.S., Vranka M.A., Wicherts J.M., Yoshimura N., Zwaan R.A. & Ravenzwaaij D. van (2023), The process of replication target selection in psychology: what to consider?, Royal Society Open Science 10(2): .
- Heyman T.D.P. & Heyman G. (2023), The impact of ChatGPT on human data collection: a case study involving typicality norming data, Behavior Research Methods : .
- Heyman T., Boere R., Jong S. de, Hoogeterp L., Kraaijenbrink J., Kuipers C., Dijk M. van, Rijn L. van & Wijk T. van (2022), The effect of stress on semantic memory eetrieval: a multiverse analysis, Collabra: Psychology 8(1): 35745.
- Heyman T. & Vanpaemel W. (2022), Multiverse analyses in the classroom, Meta-Psychology 6: .
- Rohrer J.M., Tierney W., Uhlmann E.L., DeBruine L.M., Heyman T., Jones B., Schmukle S.C., Silberzahn R., Willén R.M., Carlsson R., Lucas R.E., Strand J., Vazire S., Witt J.K., Zentall T.R., Chabris C.F. & Yarkoni T. (2021), Putting the self in self-correction: findings from the loss-of-confidence project, Perspectives on Psychological Science : .
- Heyman T. & Maerten A.-S. (2020), Correction notices in psychology: impactful or inconsequential?, Royal Society Open Science 7(10): 200834.
- Demiddele K., Heyman T. & Schaeken W. (2020), Schoolchildren’s transitive reasoning with the spatial relation ‘is left/right of’, Thinking {&} Reasoning : .
- Heyman T., Moors P. & Rabagliati H. (2020), The benefits of adversarial collaboration for commentaries, Nature Human Behaviour 4: 1217.
- Heyman T., Vankrunkelsven H., Voorspoels W., White A., Storms G. & Verheyen S. (2020), When cheating is an honest mistake : a critical evaluation of the matrix task as a measure of dishonesty, Collabra: Psychology 6(1): 12.
- Rabagliati H., Moors P. & Heyman T.D.P. (2020), Can item effects explain away the evidence for unconscious sound symbolism? An adversarial commentary on Heyman, Maerten, Vankrunkelsven, Voorspoels, and Moors (2019), Psychological Science 31(9): 1200-1204.