Reading Group

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Cancelled

Saar Hommes: 

Samuel Fairlamb, Helena Papadopoulou, Victoria J. Bourne. (2022). Reach for the STARS? The role of academic contingent self-worth in statistics anxiety and learning, Learning and Motivation, Volume 78, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lmot.2022.101815 
Ruben Vromans:

Skagerlund K, Östergren R, Västfjäll D, Träff U (2019) How does mathematics anxiety impair mathematical abilities? Investigating the link between math anxiety, working memory, and number processing. PLoS ONE 14(1): e0211283. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211283

July 1st, 2024

Ionica Smeets [slides]: 
S. Zhang et al., An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 120, e2302491120 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.230249112 
Nina Leach:
Bannister, H. J., Blackwell, P. G., Hyder, K., & Webb, T. J. (2021). Improving the visual communication of Environmental Model Projections. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98290-4

June 3rd, 2024

Edwin de Jonge:
Cancelled
Astrid Martens:
Kopp, R. E., Oppenheimer, M., O’Reilly, J. L., Drijfhout, S. S., Edwards, T. L., Fox-Kemper, B., ... & Xiao, C. (2023). Communicating future sea-level rise uncertainty and ambiguity to assessment users. Nature climate change, 13(7), 648-660.

May 6th, 2024

Sara Sprinkhuizen [slides]:
Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Witteman HO, Dickson M, et al. Blocks, Ovals, or People? Icon Type Affects Risk Perceptions and Recall of Pictographs. Medical Decision Making. 2014;34(4):443-453. doi:10.1177/0272989X13511706 
Martine Jansen [slides]:
Felgendreff, L., Siegers, R., Otten, L. et al. Infographics on risks associated with COVID-19 and the willingness to get the AstraZeneca vaccine: two randomized online experiments. BMC Public Health 24, 529 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18057-0

April 8th, 2024

Note: not 1st Monday of the month due to Easter break on April 1st

Nina Leach: Cancelled
Bannister, H. J., Blackwell, P. G., Hyder, K., & Webb, T. J. (2021). Improving the visual communication of Environmental Model Projections. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-98290-4
Filip de Blois: 

Piero Morseletto, Analysing the influence of visualisations in global environmental governance (2017) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901116309479

March 4th, 2024

Sanne Willems [slides]:
Hullman J, Resnick P, Adar E (2015) Hypothetical Outcome Plots Outperform Error Bars and Violin Plots for Inferences about Reliability of Variable Ordering. PLOS ONE 10(11): e0142444. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142444 
Eefje de Louw [slides]:
Padilla LMK, Powell M, Kay M and Hullman J (2021) Uncertain About Uncertainty: How Qualitative Expressions of Forecaster Confidence Impact Decision-Making With Uncertainty Visualizations. Front. Psychol. 11:579267. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.579267 

January 8th, 2024

Note: not first Monday of the month
Reinoud Stoel [slides]: 

A. Preston and K. -L. Ma, "Communicating Uncertainty and Risk in Air Quality Maps," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 3746-3757, 1 Sept. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2022.3171443. 
Saar Hommes:
Benevento, S.V. Communicating Climate Change Risk to Children: A Thematic Analysis of Children’s Literature. Early Childhood Educ J 51, 201–210 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-021-01294-y 

December 4th, 2023

November 6th, 2023

Edwin de Jonge:
Boy, Jeremy, et al. "A principled way of assessing visualization literacy." IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics 20.12 (2014): 1963-1972.
Winnifred Wijnker:
Kennedy, H., Weber, W., & Engebretsen, M. (2020). Data visualization and transparency in the news. In: Engebretsen, M. & Kennedy, H. (Eds.) Data visualization in society, p. 169-185. Amsterdam University press.
https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/22273/9789048543137.pdf?sequence=1#page=170

July 5th, 2023

Ionica Smeets [slides]:
Causal and Associational Language in Observational Health Research: A Systematic Evaluation https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35925053/ 
Reinoud Stoel [slides]: 
Communicating uncertainty about the link between COVID-19 and bats: the indirect effects on attitudes toward bats in the United States https://doi.org/10.1080/10871209.2023.2167022 

June 7th, 2023

Martine Jansen [slides]:
Li, N., Brossard, D., Scheufele, D. A., Wilson, P. H. and Rose, K. M. (2018). Communicating data: interactive infographics, scientific data and credibility JCOM 17(02), A06. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.17020206
Edwin de Jonge:

Béland, A., Daudens, F., & Hurtut, T. (2023). Waffster: Hierarchical waffle charts for budget visualization. Information Visualization, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14738716231173730 

May 3rd, 2023

Rosa Fabbricatore: 

Holtgraves, T., & Perdew, A. (2016). Politeness and the communication of uncertainty. Cognition, 154, 1-10.
Elisca Mastenbroek: 
Sirota, M. & Juanchich, M. (2012). To what extent do politeness expectations shape risk perception? Even numerical probabilities are under their spell! Acta Psychologica, 141 (3), 391-399.

April 5th, 2023

Saar Hommes:
Bonafide, C.P., Roberts, K.E., Weirich, C.M., Paciotti, B., Tibbetts, K.M., Keren, R., Barg, F.K. and Holmes, J.H. (2013), Beyond statistical prediction: qualitative evaluation of the mechanisms by which pediatric early warning scores impact patient safety. J. Hosp. Med., 8: 248-253. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.2026
Nynke Krol:
Ancker JS, Chan C, Kukafka R. Interactive graphics for expressing health risks: development and qualitative evaluation. J Health Commun. 2009 Jul-Aug;14(5):461-75. doi: 10.1080/10810730903032960

March 1st, 2023

Lude Rozema [slides]:

Witteman HO, Zikmund-Fisher BJ, Waters EA, Gavaruzzi T, Fagerlin A. Risk estimates from an online risk calculator are more believable and recalled better when expressed as integers. J Med Internet Res. 2011 Sep 7;13(3):e54. doi: 10.2196/jmir.1656.
Ruben Vromans:
Zikmund-Fisher BJ. The right tool is what they need, not what we have: a taxonomy of appropriate levels of precision in patient risk communication. Med Care Res Rev. 2013 Feb;70(1 Suppl):37S-49S. doi: 10.1177/1077558712458541

December 5th, 2022

Ionica Smeets [slides]:
Trusting the Facts: The Role of Framing, News Media as a (Trusted) Source, and Opinion Resonance for Perceived Truth in  Statistical Statements
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10776990221117117 
Martine Jansen [slides]:
Persson E., Andersson D., Koppel L., Västfjäll D., Tinghög G.A preregistered replication of motivated numeracy, Cognition, 214 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104768

November 21st,
2022

Sara Sprinkhuizen [slides]:
Szafir, D. A., Haroz, S., Gleicher, M., & Franconeri, S. (2016). Four types of ensemble coding in data visualizations. Journal of Vision, 16(5):11, 1–22, doi:10.1167/16.5.11. 
Edwin de Jonge: 
Two graphs walk into a bar: Readout-based measurement reveals the Bar-Tip Limit error, a common, categorical misinterpretation of mean bar graphs, Journal of Vision November 2021, Vol.21, 17, doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.12.17 

November 7th, 2022

Rosa Fabbricatore: 
Han, P. K., Klein, W. M., Killam, B., Lehman, T., Massett, H., & Freedman, A. N. (2012). Representing randomness in the communication of individualized cancer risk estimates: effects on cancer risk perceptions, worry, and subjective uncertainty about risk. Patient education and counseling, 86(1), 106-113. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2011.01.033 
Casper Albers: 
D.A.C. Vos & C.J. Albers, Different approaches to visualising trends using Covid-19 data: a study comparing cumulative line graphs with non-cumulative line graphs. (traineeship report)

October 24th, 2022

October 10th, 2022

Saar Hommes: 

Riaz Qureshi, Xiwei Chen, Carsten Goerg, Evan Mayo-Wilson, Stephanie Dickinson, Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo, Hwanhee Hong, Rachel Phillips, Victoria Cornelius, Mara Mc Adams DeMarco, Eliseo Guallar, Tianjing Li, Comparing the Value of Data Visualization Methods for Communicating Harms in Clinical Trials, Epidemiologic Reviews, 2022; mxac005 https://doi.org/10.1093/epirev/mxac005 
Nynke Krol [slides]: 
Shah, P., & Carpenter, P. A. (1995). Conceptual limitations in comprehending line graphs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 124(1), 43–61. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.124.1.43

September 26th, 2022

Reinoud Stoel: 
Kevin A. Hallgren, Connor J. McCabe, Kevin M. King, David C. Atkins. Beyond path diagrams: Enhancing applied structural equation modeling research through data visualization. Addictive Behaviors, Volume 94, 2019, Pages 74-82.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.08.030.
Ruben Vromans [slides]:
van der Velden, N.C.A., van Laarhoven, H.W.M., Burgers, S.A. et al. Characteristics of patients with advanced cancer preferring not to know prognosis: a multicenter survey study. BMC Cancer 22, 941 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-022-09911-8 

September 12th, 2022

Anna Henschel [slides]:
Riedel, N., Schulz, R., Kazezian, V., & Weissgerber, T. (2022). Replacing bar graphs of continuous data with more informative graphics: are we making progress?. Clinical Science, 136(15), 1139-1156. https://doi.org/10.1042/CS20220287
Sanne Willems [slides]:
Kay, M., Kola, T., Hullman, J. R., & Munson, S. A. (2016, May). When (ish) is my bus? user-centered visualizations of uncertainty in everyday, mobile predictive systems. In Proceedings of the 2016 chi conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 5092-5103). https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858558 

Summer break

June 20th, 2022

Edwin de Jonge: 
Graphical Prediction & Discrete Visualizations Improve Recall & Estimation of Effect Uncertainty, Jessica Hullman, Matthew Kay, Yea-Seul Kim, and Samana Shrestha, IEEE transactions on visualisation  and computer graphics, vol 24, no 1, January 2018, 1077-2626
Rosa Fabbricatore:
Okan, Y., Janssen, E., Galesic, M., & Waters, E. A. (2019). Using the short graph literacy scale to predict precursors of health behavior change. Medical Decision Making, 39(3), 183-195.

June 6th, 2022

No meeting; national holiday

May 23rd, 2022

Edwin de Jonge: 
TBA
Rosa Fabbricatore:
Okan, Y., Janssen, E., Galesic, M., & Waters, E. A. (2019). Using the short graph literacy scale to predict precursors of health behavior change. Medical Decision Making, 39(3), 183-195.

April 25th,
2022

Martine Jansen: [slides]
Kanjanabose, R., Abdul-Rahman, A. and Chen, M. (2015), A Multi-task Comparative Study on Scatter Plots and Parallel Coordinates Plots. Computer Graphics Forum, 34: 261-270. https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12638
Anne Marthe van der Bles:

TBA

April 11th,
2022

Winnifred Wijnker:
TBA

Saar Hommes:
Collins PJ, Renedo A, Marston CA. Communicating and understanding pain: Limitations of pain scales for patients with sickle cell disorder and other painful conditions. Journal of Health Psychology. 2022;27(1):103-118. doi:10.1177/1359105320944987

March 28th,
2022

Nynke Krol:
Justine T. Kaoa, Jean Y. Wub, Leon Bergen, and Noah D. Goodman (2014) Nonliteral understanding of number words. PNAS, 111 (33), 12002-12007. 
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1407479111 
Ruben Vromans:
Recchia, G., Lawrence, A. C., & Freeman, A. L. (2022). Investigating the presentation of uncertainty in an icon array: A randomized trial. PEC Innovation, 1, 100003. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecinn.2021.100003

March 14th,
2022

Reinoud Stoel:
Martire, K. ., Kemp, R. ., Sayle, M., & Newell, B. . (2014). On the interpretation of likelihood ratios in forensic science evidence: Presentation formats and the weak evidence effect. Forensic Science International, 240, 61–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.04.005
Sanne Willems: [slides]
Waters, E. A., Maki, J., Liu, Y., Ackermann, N., Carter, C. R., Dart, H., … Colditz, G. A. (2021). Risk Ladder, Table, or Bulleted List? Identifying Formats That Effectively Communicate Personalized Risk and Risk Reduction Information for Multiple Diseases. Medical Decision Making, 41(1), 74–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X20968070

February 28th,
2022
March 7th, 2022

Rosa Fabbricatore: [slides]
Ali, N., & Peebles, D. (2013). The effect of gestalt laws of perceptual organization on the comprehension of three-variable bar and line graphs. Human factors, 55(1), 183-203.
Laura Verbeek: 
von Roten, F. C., & de Roten, Y. (2013). Statistics in science and in society: From a state-of-the-art to a new research agenda. Public Understanding of Science, 22(7), 768-784. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0963662513495769 

February 1st,
2022

Winnifred Wijnker: [slides]
Witt, J. K. (2019). Graph construction: An empirical investigation on setting the range of the Y-Axis. Meta-Psychology, 3. https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10107678
Saar Hommes: [slides]
Tosyali, F., & Aktas, B. (2021). Does training analytical thinking decrease superstitious beliefs? Relationship between analytical thinking, intrinsic religiosity, and superstitious beliefs. Personality and Individual Differences, 183, 111122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.11112

Sanne Willems: [slides]

Yang, B. W., Vargas Restrepo, C., Stanley, M. L., & Marsh, E. J. (2021). Truncating Bar Graphs Persistently Misleads Viewers. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(2), 298–311. 

Ruben Vromans: [slides]

Engelhardt, E. G., Pieterse, A. H., Han, P. K., van Duijn-Bakker, N., Cluitmans, F., Maartense, E., ... & Stiggelbout, A. M. (2017). Disclosing the uncertainty associated with prognostic estimates in breast cancer: current practices and patients’ perceptions of uncertainty. Medical Decision Making, 37(3), 179-192. 

Rosa Fabbricatore: [slides]

Binder K, Krauss S and Bruckmaier G (2015) Effects of visualizing statistical information–an empirical study on tree diagrams and 2 × 2 tables. Front. Psychol.6:1186.
Ionica Smeets:
Li, N., & Molder, A. L. (2021). Can scientists use simple infographics to convince? Effects of the “flatten the curve” charts on perceptions of and behavioral intentions toward social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Understanding of Science, 30(7), 898–912.

November 9, 2021

Casper Albers:

Frans, N., Hummelen, B., Albers, C.J., Paap, M.C.S. (2021). Visualizing uncertainty to promote clinicians' understanding of measurement error.
Ionica Smeets:
TBA

October 26,
2021

Saar Hommes: [slides]
Hoffmann TC, Del Mar C, Santhirapala R, et al. Teaching clinicians shared decision making and risk communication online: an evaluation study. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2021;26:253.
Anne Marthe van der Bles:
Jenkins, S. C., Harris, A. J. L., & Lark, R. M. (2018). Understanding ‘unlikely (20% likelihood)’ or ‘20% likelihood (unlikely)’ outcomes: the robustness of the extremity effect. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31(4), 572-586.

October 12,
2021

Marije Fagginger Auer: [slides]
Betsch , C., Haase, N., Renkewitz, F., & Schmid, P. (2015). The narrative bias revisited: What drives the biasing influence of narrative information on risk perceptions? Judgment and Decision Making, 10, 241-264 

Ruben Vromans: [slides]
- Fagerlin, A., Zikmund-Fisher, B. J., & Ubel, P. A. (2007). “If I’m better than average, then I’m ok?”: Comparative information influences beliefs about risk and benefits. Patient education and counseling, 69(1-3), 140-144. 
- Schwartz, P. H. (2016). Comparative Risk: Good or Bad Heuristic?. The American Journal of Bioethics, 16(5), 20-22. 

September 28,
2021

Cancelled

June 25, 2021

Sanne Willems: [slides]

Peter Knapp, Peter H Gardner and Elizabeth Woolf (2014)Combined verbal and numerical expressions increase perceived risk of medicine side-effects: a randomized controlled trial of EMA recommendations

May 28, 2021

Casper Albers:

Guo D, Zhang S, Wright KL, McTigue EM. Do You Get the Picture? A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Graphics on Reading Comprehension. AERA Open. January 2020. doi:10.1177/2332858420901696

Anne Marthe van der Bles: Laura Verbeek:
Netemeyer Richard G., Dobolyi David G., Abbasi Ahmed, Clifford Gari, Taylor Herman. Health Literacy, Health Numeracy, and Trust in Doctor: Effects on Key Patient Health Outcomes, The journal of Consumer Affairs, 2019

May 14, 2021

Ascension Day

Nikky van Buuren:
Fischhoff B. Communicating about the risks of terrorism (or anything else). Am Psychol. 2011 Sep;66(6):520-31. doi: 10.1037/a0024570. PMID: 21823780.

Laura Verbeek Winnifred Wijnker:
Raschke, R. L., & Steinbart, P. J. (2008). Mitigating the effects of misleading graphs on decisions by educating users about the principles of graph design. Journal of Information Systems, 22(2), 23-52.

Marije Fagginger Auer:
Designing Visual Aids That Promote Risk Literacy: A Systematic Review of Health Research and Evidence-Based Design Heuristics door Garcia-Retamero  & Cokely (2017)

April 2, 2021

Good Friday

March 19, 2021

March 5, 2021

Winnifred Wijnker: 

Okan, Y., Galesic, M. & Garcia-Retamero, R. How People with Low and High Graph Literacy Process Health Graphs: Evidence from Eye-tracking: Graph Literacy and Health Graph Processing. J. Behav. Decis. Mak. 29, 271–294 (2016)

Sanne Willems: [slides]
Innumeracy in the Wild - Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers, Ellen Peters (2020) – book, part 1 and 2