Alexander Hart, M.Sc.
Universität des Saarlandes
Fachrichtung Psychologie
Gebäude A2 4 - Raum 1.32.2
D-66123 Saarbrücken
Sprechstunde: n.V.
Tel: +49(0)681/302-3130
alexander.hart(at)uni-saarland.de
Research Interests
- Computer-mediated Assessment
- Implicit theories and subjective beliefs
- Log data mining, digital traces and behavioral measures
- Machine learning in Psychology
- Meta Science & Open Science
Professional Positions
2019-present
Doctoral Researcher,
Research Group Applied Statistical Modeling
Saarland University, Germany
2018-2019
Student Assistant
Research Group Applied Statistical Modeling
Saarland University, Germany
2014-2018
Student Assistant
Work Unit for Social Psychology
Saarland University, Germany
Education
2019
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Psychology
Saarland University, Germany
2016
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology
Saarland University, Germany
Grants
2021
Open Science - Did we (dis)miss something?
Peer tandem program (Social Psychology Section)
Awarded to Dr. Stefanie Miketta & Alexander Hart
2020
How common is Open Science today? Investigating the adoption of Open Science practices cross-culturally.
GradUS global travel grant (Saarland University)
Awarded to Myriam A. Baum & Alexander Hart
Reviews
Annals of Behavioral Medicine; JMIR Research Protocols; Journal of Medical Internet Research; JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Publications
Reis, D., Krautter, K., Hart., A., & Friese, M. (2022). Heterogeneity in Mental Health Change During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany: The Role of Social Factors. Stress & Health. doi: 10.1002/smi.3181
Baum, M.A.*, Braun, M.N.*, Hart, A.*, Huffer, V.I.*, Meßmer, J.A.*, Weigl, M.*, & Wennerhold, L.* (2022). The first author takes it all? – Solutions for crediting authors more visibly, transparently, and free of bias. British Journal of Social Psychology. doi:10.1111/bjso.12569
Hart, A., Reis, D., Prestele, E., Jacobson, N. C. (2022). Using Smartphone Sensor Paradata and Personalized Machine Learning Models to Predict Participants’ Well-Being: Ecological Momentary Assessment. Journal of Medical Internet Research. doi: 10.2196/34015
Baum, M.A.*, Hart, A.*, Elsherif, M.M., Ilchovska, Z.G., Moreau, D., Dokovova, M., LaPlume, A.A., Krautter, K., & Staal, J. (2022). Research without Borders: How to Identify and Overcome Potential Pitfalls in International Large-Team Online Research Projects. SAGE Publications Ltd. doi: 10.4135/9781529602074
Parsons, S., Azevedo, F., Elsherif, M.M., Guay, S., Shahim, O.N., Govaart, G.H., Norris, E., O’Mahony, A., Parker, A.J., Todorvic, A., Pennington, C.R., Garcia-Pelegrin, E., Lazic, A., Robertson, O.M., Middleton, S.L., Valentini, B., McCuaig, J., Baker, B.J., Collins, E., …, Hart, A., ..., Aczel, B. (2022). A Community-Sourced Glossary of Open Scholarship Terms. Nature Human Behaviour. doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01269-4
Krautter, K., Friese, M., Hart, A., & Reis, D. (2022). No party no joy?—Changes in university students' extraversion, neuroticism, and subjective well-being during two COVID-19 lockdowns. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 1– 19. doi: 10.1111/aphw.12336
Reis, D., Hart, A., Lehr, D. & Friese, M. (2021). Promoting recovery in daily life: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC psychology, 9 (91). doi: 10.1186/s40359-021-00591-w
* Equally contributing authors
Hart, A., Prestele, E., & Reis, D. (2021, September) Measuring behavioral markers of perfectionism in online surveys. [Conference Talk]. Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society Personality Psychology & Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, online.
Reis, D., Hart, A., Prestele, E., Lischetzke, T., & Friese, M. (2021, September) Does perfectionism matter? Evaluating the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based intervention in the context of work. [Conference Talk]. Biennial Conference of the German Psychological Society Personality Psychology & Psychological Diagnostics (DPPD) Section, online.
Baum, M.A.* & Hart, A.* (2021, June). Open Science cross-culturally: First results of the OSCC-project and their implications for Open Science [Lightning talk]. Annual meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, online.
Baum, M.A.* & Hart, A.* (2020, June). How common is Open Science today? Investigating the adoption of Open Science practices cross-culturally [Hackathon]. Annual meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, online. Slides and materials of the ongoing project: https://osf.io/d6pu5/
Henninger, F.* & Hart, A.* (2020, June). Open Toolmakers’ Birds of a Feather Session [Unconference]. Annual meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, online. Slides: https://osf.io/f93b5/
Hart, A., Langer, M., Speicher, M., & König, C. J. (2019, September). Comparison of Virtual-Reality-Shopping and Onlineshopping regarding Usability and Memorability [Virtual-Reality-Shopping und Onlineshopping im Vergleich hinsichtlich Usability und Einprägsamkeit]. Conference poster, 11th Convention of the German Work, Industrial and Business Psychology (AOW), Brunswick, Germany.
* Equally contributing authors.
Hart, A., & Baum, M.A. (2021, April 2). Eat, Work, Sleep, Repeat – Wie Home-Office unser Wohlbefinden beeinflussen kann und wer ehe von Telearbeit profitiert [Eat, Work, Sleep, Repeat - How working from home can influence our well-being and who is more likely to benefit from telework]. In-Mind – The Inquisitive Mind. https://de.in-mind.org/blog/post/eat-work-sleep-repeat-wie-home-office-unser-wohlbefinden-beeinflussen-kann-und-wer-eher
Baum, M.A., & Hart, A. (2021, March 26). Zeig‘ mir wie Du spielst, und ich sag‘ Dir, wer Du bist – Wie Persönlichkeit mit dem Verhalten in Videospielen zusammenhängt [Show me how you play and I'll tell you who you are - How personality relates to video game behavior]. In-Mind – The Inquisitive Mind. https://de.in-mind.org/blog/post/zeig-mir-wie-du-spielst-und-ich-sag-dir-wer-du-bist-wie-persoenlichkeit-mit-dem-verhalten
Teaching
Seminar 'Data analysis with R I'
Seminar 'Data analysis with R II'
Seminar 'Introduction to research literature in Social Psychology'
Seminar 'Exercise for multivariate methods'
Seminar 'Reproducible analyses with R'
2021
Workshop: Power Analysis (Saarland University, Germany)
2020
Workshop: Power Analysis (Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
2019
Workshop: Introduction to Data Analysis with R (Saarland University, Germany)
2019
Workshop: Descriptive Statistics and Graphics with R (Saarland University, Germany)
2019
Workshop: Correlation, Regression and Analysis of Variance with R (Saarland University, Germany)