Dr N.N.N. (Noah) van Dongen
Methodologist
Faculty of Law
Faculty Office FdR
Area of expertise: Philosophy of science, Theory development, Explanatory inference, Psychological methods
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
- Room number: A7.06
Postal address
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Postbus 15544
1001 NA Amsterdam
Contact details
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Profile
I work as a postdoctoral research at the Theory Methods Lab where I develop methodology for the construction and assessment of explanatory theories. I also work as methodologist at the Amsterdam School of Law where I support researchers in their methods education, grant application, and study design.
I have PhD in philosophy of science with a focus on research methodology and a PhD in cognitive science on aesthetics and art appreciation.Media appearances
- Studio Erasmus at IFFR: ‘Appreciation of art’
- Neuroscience study supports Kant's 200-year old art theory
- Neuroscience news
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Research
Current research projects
- Developing PsychoModels: a database for computational and mathetical models in psychological Science
- Developing PsychoFacts: a database of robust psychological phenomena and effects
Research grants & honours
- NWO - Open Science Fund
- NWO - Veni grant
- PhD Supervision
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Publications
2025
van Dongen, N., van Bork, R., Finnemann, A., Haslbeck, J. M. B., van der Maas, H. L. J., Robinaugh, D. J., de Ron, J., Sprenger, J., & Borsboom, D. (2025). Productive Explanation: A Framework for Evaluating Explanations in Psychological Science. Psychological Review, 132(2), 311-329. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qd69g, https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000479 [details]
2024
- Maier, M., van Dongen, N., & Borsboom, D. (2024). Comparing Theories With the Ising Model of Explanatory Coherence. Psychological Methods, 29(3), 519-536. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000543 [details]
- Sarafoglou, A., Hoogeveen, S., van den Bergh, D., Aczel, B., Albers, C. J., Althoff, T., Botvinik-Nezer, R., Busch, N. A., Cataldo, A. M., Devezer, B., van Dongen, N. N. N., Dreber, A., Fried, E. I., Hoekstra, R., Hoffman, S., Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., Huntington-Klein, N., Ioannidis, J., ... Wagenmakers, E. J. (2024). Subjective evidence evaluation survey for many-analysts studies. Royal Society Open Science, 11(7), Article 240125. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240125
2023
- Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., Bartoš, F., Beitner, J., De Ron, J., Gligoric, V., Kleinberg, B., Van der Cruyssen, I., van Dongen, N. N. N., van Ravenzwaaij, D., Verschuere, B., Wiechert, S., Zarzeczna, N., van Elk, M., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Većkalov, B., & The MARP Team (2023). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13(3), 237-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255 [details]
- van Dongen, N., Sprenger, J., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2023). A Bayesian perspective on severity: risky predictions and specific hypotheses. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 30(2), 516–533. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02069-1 [details]
- van Ravenzwaaij, D., Bakker, M., Heesen, R., Romero, F., van Dongen, N., Crüwell, S., Field, S. M., Held, L., Munafò, M. R., Pittelkow, M. M., Tiokhin, L., Traag, V. A., van den Akker, O. R., van 't Veer, A. E., & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2023). Perspectives on Scientific Error. Royal Society Open Science, 10(7), Article 230448. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wm4v6, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230448 [details]
2021
- Aczel, B., Szaszi, B., Nilsonne, G., van den Akker, O. R., Albers, C. J., van Assen, M. A., Bastiaansen, J. A., Benjamin, D., Boehm, U., Botvinik-Nezer, R., Bringmann, L. F., Busch, N. A., Caruyer, E., Cataldo, A. M., Cowan, N., Delios, A., van Dongen, N. N. N., Donkin, C., van Doorn, J. B., ... Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2021). Science Forum: Consensus-based guidance for conducting and reporting multi-analyst studies. eLife, 10, Article e72185. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72185 [details]
- Wagenmakers, E.-J., Sarafoglou, A., Aarts, S., Albers, C., Algermissen, J., Bahník, Š., van Dongen, N., Hoekstra, R., Moreau, D., van Ravenzwaaij, D., Sluga, A., Stanke, F., Tendeiro, J., & Aczel, B. (2021). Seven steps toward more transparency in statistical practice. Nature Human Behaviour, 5(11), 1473-1480. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01211-8 [details]
- van Dongen, N., & Sikorski, M. (2021). Objectivity for the research worker. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11(3), Article 93. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-021-00400-6 [details]
2019
- van Dongen, N. N. N., van Doorn, J. B., Gronau, Q. F., van Ravenzwaaij, D., Hoekstra, R., Haucke, M. N., Lakens, D., Hennig, C., Morey, R. D., Homer, S., Gelman, A., Sprenger, J., & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2019). Multiple Perspectives on Inference for Two Simple Statistical Scenarios. American Statistician, 73(S1), 328-339. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2019.1565553 [details]
2024
- van Dongen, N., van Bork, R., Finnemann, A., Haslbeck, J. M. B., van der Maas, H. L. J., Robinaugh, D. J., de Ron, J., Sprenger, J., & Borsboom, D. (2024). Productive Explanation: A Framework for Evaluating Explanations in Psychological Science. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qd69g [details]
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van Dongen, N., van Bork, R., Finnemann, A., Haslbeck, J. M. B., van der Maas, H. L. J., Robinaugh, D. J., de Ron, J., Sprenger, J., & Borsboom, D. (2025). Productive Explanation: A Framework for Evaluating Explanations in Psychological Science. Psychological Review, 132(2), 311-329.