Olmo van den Akker

Olmo van den Akker

PhD-student at Tilburg University

Olmo’s academic education took place at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained a Master degree in Behavioral Economics and Game Theory as well as a Research Master degree in Psychology. During his studies he realized that the social sciences are not functioning as well as they should and that there are issues at both the institutional level and at the level of individual researchers. In his PhD-project at the Meta-Research Center at Tilburg University, he mainly focuses on the latter by studying researchers’ interpreation of statistical results and the complexities of preregistration.

Interests

  • Preregistration
  • Statistical inference
  • Evolutionary psychology
  • Behavioral economics