Shaheed Azaad

Postdoctoral Researcher. University of Muenster, Germany.

Email
sazaad@uni-muenster.de
Website
shaheedazaad.com
Office
217d, Fliednerstrasse 21, Muenster 48149

My research focuses on the perceptual processes that enable us to coordinate with others. For example, how we understand actions, or how social contexts might modulate our perception of our surroundings.

Additionally, I write R packages and other tools to make research easier. Most recently, the anovapowersim package for R.

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A four-level meta-analysis and review of the joint Simon effect

Preprint · 2025

For two decades, the joint Simon effect (JSE) has been a cornerstone of joint action research. Initially presented as evidence that humans spontaneously represent others’ actions in a functionally equivalent way to their own, the JSE now serves as an interdisciplinary measure of self-other integration across research on social cognition, human-robot interac...

No evidence for meaningful stereotype threat effects in tournament chess players

Preprint · 2026

Past research has concluded that stereotype threat effects cause female chess players to underperform against male opponents. Here, we investigated whether this effect is large enough be practically meaningful, and whether it varies in line with the stereotype threat account. We analysed moves from 118,053 tournament chess games (N = 29,864 players), to tes...

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