Welcome...

 ...to the working unit Statistics and Psychological Methods at the University of Münster (AE Nestler). The members of our lab are interested in the advancement of statistical methods for the analysis of complex psychological data. Latest research projects cover topics such as combining the social relations model with structural equation models, advancing models to examine intra-individual variability or combining standard statistical approaches such as multilevel or structural equation models with machine learning methods (e.g., trees, boosting, ...). We are also authors or contributors to different R packages. In teaching, we provide a comprehensive B.Sc.- and M.Sc.-program in psychological methods, including lectures and courses on basic and advanced statistics.

If you are interested in writing a thesis in our lab, you can find further information here. We offer supervision of both bachelor and master theses covering both substantive and methodological research questions.

Latest News

2026-04-20

New paper in press by S. Weiss, B. Forthmann, H. Kapoor, A. Zielińska, B. Goecke, D. Dumas, S. Said-Metwaly, ..., & B. Barbot in Journal of Educational Psychology: Mapping creativity in the PISA 2022 student and context questionnaires: An expert evaluation of content validity of the creativity self- and other-report scales. 

2026-04-09

New paper in press by S. Luchini, R. E. Beaty, A. S. Boyce, S. E. Zappe, & B. Forthmann in Journal of Engineering Education: Automating creativity assessment in engineering design: A psychometric validation of AI-generated items of the Design Problem Task.

2026-04-06

New paper in press by M. Schlamann, S. Nestler, & M. Thielsch in International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction: Attractive things do work better: A meta-analysis on visual aesthetics and user performance.

2026-03-31

Boris has been selected by the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC) Awards Committee to receive the SfNC Young Investigator Award. Congratulations Boris!!!

2026-03-02

New paper in press by K. Jansen, & S. Nestler in Multivariate Behavioral Research: Multivariate location-scale models for meta-analysis.