Prof. Dr. Uljana Feest

Uljana Feest studied psychology and philosophy in Frankfurt and Bristol and did her Ph.D. in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh. She has worked at the MPI for the History of Science (Berlin) and the Technical University of Berlin and is now professor of philosophy at the Leibniz University Hannover. Uljana is interested in the philosophy and history of psychology, the epistemology of experimentation, and the history of the philosophy of science.

During her affiliation with SOCRATES, Uljana Feest plans to look at arguments for and against diversifying samples, researchers, and methods in psychology. With this she picks up the suggestion (by some) that psychology’s WEIRDness problem goes beyond a mere lack of sample diversity. Others, however, have argued that the subject matter of psychology does not always require such diversity. Feest will study this debate in the larger contexts of the crisis of confidence that has rattled psychology in recent years.