Meta-Open Science

We have long been proponents and pioneers of meta-scientific techniques and developing robust, cumulative, and open science. Below you can find some publications by topic:

Mega-Replication Studies of Key Findings in Psychology

• Voelkel, J. G., Ashokkumar, A., Abeles, A. T., Crawford, J. T., Fuller, K., Redekopp, C., van der Linden, S., Wolsko, C.V., Willenbring, J.,K., Malhotra, N ... & Willer, R. (2026). A registered report megastudy on the persuasiveness of the most-cited climate messages. Nature Climate Change, 16(2), 214-225.
• Većkalov, B., Geiger, S. J., Bartoš, F., White, M. P., Rutjens, B. T., van Harreveld, F., ... & Ruggeri, K., & van der Linden, S. (2024). A 27-country test of communicating the scientific consensus on climate change. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1892–1905.
• Ruggeri, K., Alí, S.,  Berge, M.L., Bertoldo, G., Bjørndal, L., Cortijos-Bernabeu, A.,….…..van der Linden, S., & Folke, T. (2020). Replicating patterns of Prospect Theory for decision under risk. Nature Human Behaviour 4, 622-633.

Evidence Synthesis

• Ruggeri, K., Stock, F., Haslam, S. A., Capraro, V., Boggio, P., Ellemers, N., A. Cichocka, Douglas, K., Rand, D., & van der Linden, S.,....& Willer, R. (2024). A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19. Nature, 625(7993), 134-147.
• van der Linden, S., & Goldberg, M. (2020). Alternative meta-analysis of behavioural interventions to promote action on climate change yields different conclusions. Nature Communications 11, 3915.
• van der Linden, S., & Chryst, B. (2017). No Need for Bayes Factors: A Fully Bayesian Evidence Synthesis. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 3:12.

Replication Studies

• Martel, C., Rathje, S., Clark, C. J., Pennycook, G., Van Bavel, J. J., Rand, D., & van der Linden, S. (2024). On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration. Psychological Science, 35(4), 435-450.
• Roozenbeek, J., Freeman, A.F., and van der Linden, S. (2021). How accurate are accuracy nudges? A direct pre-registered replication of Pennycook et al. (2021). Psychological Science 32(7), 1169-1178.
• Goldberg, M. H., & van der Linden, S. (2020). The importance of heterogeneity in large-scale replications. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8(1), 25-29.
• Zeng, Z. X., van Prooijen, J. W., Guo, Y. Y., & van der Linden, S. (2025). The Gateway Belief Model: A pre-registered large-scale replication in China. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102542.
• van der Linden, S., & Rosenthal, S. A. (2015). Measuring narcissism with a single question? A replication and extension of the Single-Item Narcissism Scale (SINS). Personality and Individual Differences, 90, 238-241.

Meta-Analyses

• Simchon, A., Zipori, T., Teitelbaum, L., Lewandowsky, S., & van der Linden, S. (2025). A Signal Detection Theory Meta-Analysis of Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 102194.
• Bergquist, M., Thiel, M., Goldberg, M., & van der Linden, S. (2023). Field interventions for climate change mitigation behaviors: A second-order meta-analysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(13), e2214851120.
• Biddlestone, M., Azevedo, F., & van der Linden, S. (2022). Climate of conspiracy: Meta-analysis of the consequences of belief in conspiracy theories about climate change. Current Opinion in Psychology 46, 101390.
• Rathje, S., Roozenbeek, J., Steenbuch Traberg, C., Van Bavel, J., & van der Linden, S. (2022). Meta-analysis reveals that accuracy nudges have little to no effect for US conservatives: Regarding Pennycook et al. (2020). Psychological Science.
• Reynolds, J.P., Stautz, K., Piling, M., van der Linden, S., & Marteau, T. (2020). Communicating the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of government policies and its impact on public support: A systematic review with meta-analysis. Royal Society Open Science 7, 190522.