21. Giuliana Spadaro: Cooperation Databank, payoff matrices, and meta-analyses

Giuliana Spadaro is a postdoc in the Amsterdam Cooperation Lab, directed by Daniel Balliet. Her research focuses on cooperation and prosociality. In this conversation, we talk about Giuliana's recent work on the Cooperation Databank (https://cooperationdatabank.org/), a database that contains around 2,600 studies on cooperation, coded by experts to facilitate meta-analyses and other tasks about cooperation research. 

BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. New conversations every other Friday. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.).

Timestamps
0:00:05: Giuliana's career before working on the Cooperation Databank (coda)
0:13:09: What is coda and what can it do?
0:18:58: Different payoff matrices in the Prisoner's Dilemma
0:24:25: The benefits of annotating hundreds of studies
0:28:57: Further uses of coda (e.g., search engine)
0:33:28: How can people add their own studies to coda (including unpublished studies)?
0:39:10: Coda in the long term
0:45:15: What if I want a new feature added to coda?
0:53:47: Learning to run and from a meta-analysis
1:02:49: Working on coda
1:11:38: What's next for Giuliana?
1:15:03: Coda workshops

Podcast links

• Website: https://bjks.buzzsprout.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/BjksPodcast

Giuliana's links

• Website: https://amsterdamcooperationlab.com/giuliana_spadaro/
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=ZuzhtPEAAAAJ
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/g_spadaro90

Ben's links

• Website: www.bjks.blog/
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=-nWNfvcAAAAJ
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/bjks_tweets

References
Kuper-Smith, B. J., Doppelhofer, L. M., Oganian, Y., Rosenblau, G., Korn, C. W. Risk perception and optimism during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. PsyArXiv.
McShane, B. B., & Böckenholt, U. (2017). Single-paper meta-analysis: Benefits for study summary, theory testing, and replicability. Journal of Consumer Research.
Scaffidi Abbate, C., Boca, S., Spadaro, G., & Romano, A. (2014). Priming effects on commitment to help and on real helping behavior. Basic and Applied Social Psychology.
Spadaro, G., d’Elia, S. R., & Mosso, C. O. (2018). Menstrual knowledge and taboo TV commercials: effects on self-objectification among Italian and Swedish women. Sex Roles.
Spadaro, G., Tiddi, I., Columbus, S., Jin, S., ten Teije, A., & Balliet, D. (2020). The cooperation databank. PsyArXiv.
Thielmann, I., Spadaro, G., & Balliet, D. (2020). Personality and prosocial behavior: A theoretical framework and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin.