anthrologue | Ilse Pit

I am DPhil candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Before moving to the UK in 2019, I obtained a BSc in Psychology (2014) and a MSc in Behavioural Science (2017) from Radboud University in the Netherlands.

For my PhD I research the evolutionary functions of social norms. I mostly employ experimental studies, in which I investigate the effect of norm violations on intra- and inter-group cooperation and perception. I value open science practices, and aim to make my research transparent and reproducible.

selected publications

The Semantic Scale Network: an online tool to detect semantic overlap of psychological scales and prevent scale redundancies. Rosenbusch, H., Wanders, F., and Pit, I. Psychological Methods 2020
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Psychological measurement and theory are afflicted with an ongoing proliferation of new constructs and scales. Given the often redundant nature of new scales, psychological science is struggling with arbitrary measurement, construct dilution, and disconnection between research groups. To address these issues, we introduce an easy-to-use online application: the Semantic Scale Network. The purpose of this application is to automatically detect semantic overlap between scales through latent semantic analysis. Authors and reviewers can enter the items of a new scale into the application, and receive quantifications of semantic overlap with related scales in the application’s corpus. Contrary to traditional assessments of scale overlap, the application can support expert judgments on scale redundancy without access to empirical data or awareness of every potentially related scale. After a brief introduction to measures of semantic similarity in texts, we introduce the Semantic Scale Network and provide best practices for interpreting its outputs.
@article{Rosenbusch-et-al_2020, title = {The {S}emantic {S}cale {N}etwork: an online tool to detect semantic overlap of psychological scales and prevent scale redundancies.}, author = {Rosenbusch, Hannes and Wanders, Florian and Pit, Ilse L}, journal = {Psychological Methods}, volume = {25}, number = {3}, pages = {380--392}, year = {2020}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000244}, doi = {10.1037/met0000244}, abbr = {personal}, publisher = {American Psychological Association} }