Hotspots in Psychology – 2022 Edition

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Abstract. This editorial introduces the five articles included in the sixth “Hotspots in Psychology” of the Zeitschrift für Psychologie. With the new edition, the format enlarges it focus beyond meta-analyses and systematic reviews to new developments such as big data in psychology. The included five articles span a diverse array of topics, that is, the application of individual participants meta-analyses as a way to replicate studies, the role of the degree of anthropomorphism (“human-likeness”) in human-robot interactions, the challenge of multiple dependent effect sizes when conducting a meta-analytical structural equation model, the value of using log data of online platform as a way to predict learning outcomes, and the utility of a block-wise fit evaluation in structural equation models with many longitudinally measured variables. To promote the open science philosophy, the papers present supplemental material that can be accessed via the repository PsychArchives ( www.psycharchives.org ).