Frank Eggert

Biographic Data

ID91242
NAMEFrank Eggert
GIVEN NAMESFrank
FAMILY NAMEEggert
SIGNATUREEGGERT F
AFFILIATIONSTechnische Universität Braunschweig
ORCID0000-0002-5797-4741
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Grocery Shopping Under Simplified Marginal Value Theorem Predictions

    Open AccessTabea Schlender, Alex Rieger et al.ARTICLEHuman Nature2024References: 69

    This study examined whether supermarkets can be considered patches in the marginal value theorem (MVT) sense despite their particular features and whether they are models of human food foraging in resource-dense conditions. On the basis of the MVT, the quantitative relationship between gains in the Euro and patch residence time was modeled as an exponential growth function toward an upper asymptote, allowing the choice of an optimal strategy unde…

  • Meaningful measurement requires substantive formal theory

    Open AccessMatthias Borgstede, Frank EggertARTICLETheory & Psychology2023

    In this article, we take the opportunity to elaborate on some aspects of our article “Squaring the Circle: From Latent Variables to Theory-Based Measurement” (Borgstede & Eggert, 2023) that gave rise to the concerns uttered by Hasselman (2023) and Slaney (2023), and to clarify why we think that theory-based measurement is indeed necessary and sufficient for the establishment of meaningful psychological measurement procedures. Moreover, we will il…

  • Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement

    Open AccessMatthias Borgstede, Frank EggertARTICLETheory & Psychology2023

    Psychometrics builds on the fundamental premise that psychological attributes are unobservable and need to be inferred from observable behavior. Consequently, psychometric procedures consist primarily in applying latent variable modeling, which statistically relates latent variables to manifest variables. However, latent variable modeling falls short of providing a theoretically sound definition of psychological attributes. Whereas in a pragmatic…

  • The role of measurement in theorising about the world

    Open AccessNicole Holzhauser, Frank EggertARTICLESocial Science Information2019Cited by: 1References: 27

    The procedure of establishing a measure of an attribute consists of the assignment of numbers to objects whose attributes show some variability according to rules. These rules are chosen so that the assigned numbers contain some 'information' about the differing variants of the attribute. In the article, we discuss a heuristic, a scaling, and a representational approach. Within the heuristic approach, rules can be based on a verbal argument heuri…

  • Clarifying the concept of validity: From measurement to everyday language

    Open AccessMatthias Buntins, Katja Buntins et al.ARTICLETheory & Psychology2017

    Test validity is widely understood as the degree to which a test measures what it should measure. We argue that this conceptualization does not refer to a psychometric problem but to the correspondence between scientific language and everyday language. Following Stevens, test results give an operational definition of attributes, qualifying any test as valid by definition. Following the representational theory of measurement, an attribute is defin…

  • Selective Cooperation in the Supermarket: Field Experimental Evidence for Indirect Reciprocity

    Open AccessFlorian Lange, Frank EggertARTICLEHuman Nature2015Cited by: 1References: 33

  • Sweet delusion. Glucose drinks fail to counteract ego depletion

    Open AccessFlorian Lange, Frank EggertARTICLEAppetite2014Cited by: 10References: 51