Dr. Cassie Short
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Dr. Cassie Short
Research Interests
- Electrophysiological correlates of personality
- Reliable ERP quantification measures
- Dual-EEG recordings, inter-person neuroscience
- Open Science
Academic positions
| Since Jan. 2023 | Postdoctoral Researcher with Teaching at the Department of Psychology, division for Methods and Statistics, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg |
| 11/2019 – 10/2022 | Postdoctoral Researcher with Teaching at the Institute for Psychology, Department for Differential Psychology and Psychological Assessment, University of Hamburg |
| 2020–2021 | Ad-hoc Guest Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Bolton (UK) |
| 09/2016 – 08/2019 | PhD Student Researcher and Lecturer, within the Social Neuroscience Laboratory group and for the Department of Psychology, University of Bolton (UK) |
| 01/2015 – 01/2016 | Research Assistant on a joint project between the Departments of Psychology and Education, University of Bolton (UK) |
Student Work/Internships
| 2014 – 2015 | Teaching Assistant for Research Methods in Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Bolton (UK) |
| 2014 – 2015 | Voluntary Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Bolton (UK) |
| 2014 | Research Assistant, Our-Life, Manchester |
Academic Education
| 2016 – 2019 | PhD, Social Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Bolton (UK) |
| 2017 | Teacher Training for Higher Education, University of Bolton (UK): Distinction |
| 2012 – 2018 | Psychology BSc (Hons), University of Bolton (UK): First Class with Honours |
Committee/Board Position
| 2023 – present | present Associate Junior Fellow, Postdoc Program, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg |
| 2023 – present | present Member of the Admissions Committee (Zulassungsausschuss) Neurocognitive Psychology, UOL |
| 2023 – present | present Co-leader of the Open Science Interest Group in Psychology, UOL |
| 2023 – present | present Member of the Science Communication Group, UOL |
| 2019 – 2021 | Postgraduate Student Representative on the Board of Governors of University of Bolton (UK), two terms in office |
| 2019 – 2021 | Elected member of the Governing Body of the University of Bolton |
| 2018 – 2019 | Student Representative on the Industry Advisory Board, University of Bolton |
| 2018 – 2019 | Co-founding member of the Social Neuroscience Research Interest Group, University of Bolton (UK) |
| 2017 – 2018 | Internal Member of the Psychology Industry Advisory Board, University of Bolton (UK) |
| 2014 | Member of the Steering Committee for Community Health Work, Our-Life, Manchester (UK) |
Funding and Awards
| 2025 | IGOR Prize for Open and Reproducible Science in Biological Psychology, awarded by the Biological Psychology Fachgruppe of the DGPs, €250 |
| 2024 | Open Science Prize of the Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg for the Open Science Interest Group I co-lead, €1,000 |
| 2023 | META-REP Early Career Researcher Mini Project Funding for: An interdisciplinary practical tool for defining multiverse specifications transparently and objectively, €5,000 |
| 2023 | Associate Junior Fellowship Postdoc Program funding to host a collaborative workshop, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, €10,000 |
| 2022 | Funding for my own position for two years, Presidential Office, UOL, two years TVL-13 |
| 2022 | Two seminars nominated for the Lehrpreis, University of Hamburg |
| 2019 | Teaching Award, University of Bolton |
| 2018 | For course attendance in Hamburg |
| 2017 | For conference attendance in UK |
| 2016 | Full PhD Scholarship |
| 2013 | Higher Education Award, Bury College |
Conferences Organised
University of Oldenburg Open Science Conference. (July, 2025). Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany.
Enhancing replicability in EEG Individual Differences research through individually parameterised single trial EEG – identifying a comprehensive signal quality evaluation strategy. (June, 2025). Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany.
Workshops Given
Burkhardt, M., Short, C. A., Kristanto, D. (June, 2025). Multiverse Analysis for Neuroimaging Psychologie und Gehirn Conference 2025, Würzburg, Germany.
Short, C. A., Kristanto, D. (October, 2024). Multiverse Analysis: From Theory to Practical Implementation in R. META-REP Conference, Munich, Germany.
Frank., M., Spitzer, L., Short, C. A. (June, 2024). Preregistering the Multiverse - documenting endless possibilities. Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS), online
Short, C. A., Hildebrandt, A. (March, 2024). Making the black box transparent: Multiverse analysis and visualizations on R. Open Science Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
Hildebrandt, A., Thiele, C., Debener, S., Gießing, C., Kristanto, D., Jacobsen, N., Short, C. A. (March, 2024). Toward Open and Robust Neuroimaging: Uncovering Researchers’ Degrees of Freedom and Providing Community Solutions for Their Handling. Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst.
Short, C. A., Kristanto, D., Hildebrandt, A. (September, 2023). Making the black box transparent: Multiverse analysis and visualizations on R. 17th Biennial Conference of the Differential Psychology, Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment (DPPD) Section, Salzburg, Austria.
Short, C. A. (July, 2023). Hack-a-ton: Creation and organisation of a bottom-up practical guide that aims to reduce the anxiety of postgraduate students about engagement in open science practices. Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS), Padua, Italy.
Invited Talks/Guest Lectures
Short, C. A. (April, 2025). Investigating Experimenter Sex and Attractiveness as Moderators of the Association Between Trait Approach Motivation and Resting Frontal Asymmetry. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany.
Short, C. A. (November, 2024). Multiverse Analysis: Reporting Robustness and Increasing Transparency in Empirical Research Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Germany.
Short, C. A. (June, 2022) The CoScience EEG-Personality Project. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany.
Short, C. A. & Tech, R. (March, 2021) EEG Data Acquisition Demonstration. University of Bolton, UK.
Short, C. A. (January, 2021) Navigating Your Higher Education Journey. University of Bolton, UK.
Short, C. A. (October, 2020) Guest lecture: Understanding and Interpreting Others. Social Neuroscience MSc, University of Bolton.
Short, C. A. (May, 2016) Interactive Methods to Understand Social Processing in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Autism@Manchester Community Group, University of Manchester.
Publications
Short, C. A., Hildebrandt, A., Bosse, R., Debener, S., Özyağcılar, M., Paul, K., Wacker, J., & Kristanto, D. (2025). Lost in a large EEG multiverse? Comparing sampling approaches for representative pipeline selection. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 424, 110564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2025.110564
Short, C. A., Inceler, Y. C., Frank, M., & Hildebrandt, A. (in press). The Systematic Multiverse Analysis Registration Tool (SMART) for Defining Multiverse Analyses. Royal Society Open Science.
Beauducel, A., Scheuble-Cabrera, V., Hennig, J., Hewig, J., Hildebrandt, A., Kührt, C., Lange, L., Mueller, E. M., Osinsky, R., Paul, K., Porth, E., Riesel, A., Rodrigues, J., Scheffel, C., Short, C. A., Stahl, J., Strobel, A., & Wacker, J. (2024). The association of dispositional anxiety with the NoGo N2 under relaxation instruction vs. speed/accuracy instruction. Biological Psychology, 192, 108850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108850
Paul, K., Beauducel, A., Härpfer, K., Hennig, J., Hewig, J., Hildebrandt, A., Kührt, C., Mueller, E. M., Osinsky, R., Porth, E., Riesel, A., Rodrigues, J., Scheffel, C., Short, C. A., Stahl, J., Strobel, A., & Wacker, J. (2024) Frontal Alpha Asymmetry as a Marker of Approach Motivation? Insights from a cooperative forking path analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences. 128(1), 196-210. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000503
Paul, K*., Short, C. A.*, Beauducel, A., Per Carsten H., Härpfer, K., Hennig, J., Hewig, J., Hildebrandt, A., Kührt, C. Mueller, E.M., Osinsky, R. Porth, E., Riesel, A., Rodrigues, J., Scheffel, C., Stahl, J., Strobel, A., Wacker, J. (2022) The Methodology and Dataset of the CoScience EEG-Personality Project – A Large-Scale, Multi-Laboratory Project Grounded in Cooperative Forking Paths Analysis. Personality Science, 3, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.7177 *shared first authorship
Short, C. A., & Vital, P. (2021). A Systematic Review of Social Maintenance Behavior Outcomes of Interactive Social Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 36(2), 108-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/10883576219893
Short, C. A., Barnes, S., Carson, J. F., & Platt, I. (2020). Happiness as a predictor of resilience in students at a further education college. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 44(2), 170-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2018.1527021
Preprints
Short, C. A., Breznau, N., Bruntsch, M., Burkhardt, M., Busch, N., Cesnaite, E., Frank, M., Gießing, C., Krähmer, D., Kristanto, D., Lonsdorf, T., Neuendorf, C., Nguyen, H., Rausch, M., Schmalz, X., Schneck, A., Tabakci, C., & Hildebrandt, A. (2025). Multi-curious: A Multi-Disciplinary Guide to Multiverse Analysis. MetaArXiV. osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/4yzeh_v1