Maren Mayer

Maren Mayer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen, Germany, where she is affiliated with the Knowledge Construction lab. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Mannheim and teaches courses at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

Her research centers on sequential collaboration, dependent judgments, and cognitive modeling, with applications in group decision making, science communication, and forensic identification. She employs experimental and computational methods to study how individuals aggregate judgments and update beliefs in collaborative settings.

The trend in her publications reflects a strong focus on improving collective intelligence through structured collaboration. Her work spans cognitive psychology, human-computer interaction, and mathematical modeling, with recent studies examining anchoring effects, opting-out behaviors, and human-AI collaboration. She frequently publishes in high-impact journals such as Scientific Reports, PNAS, and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

She is actively involved in multiple research projects, including:

• Using sequential collaboration to aggregate judgments into accurate estimates (2022–present)
• Improving group decision making with sequential collaboration (2023–2024)
• The influence of expertise on the anchoring effect (2023–present)

Her scientific contributions include numerous peer-reviewed articles and preprints, with a strong emphasis on open science practices such as preregistration, open data, and code sharing. She also organizes symposia and presents her work at major psychology and cognitive science conferences.

Maren Mayer supervises and collaborates with researchers in experimental psychology and cognitive modeling. She teaches undergraduate courses in psychology at the University of Tübingen, including Introduction to Psychology and Collaboration in Digital Media. She is based at Schleichstr. 6, Tübingen, and can be reached at maren.mayer@iwm-tuebingen.de.