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  • 2009 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Overview

Ralph Hertwig is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a significant focus on decision-making and behavioral economics. Their research spans several interconnected domains, including cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics of Hertwig's work include:

  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Risk Perception and Management

Some of the recent publications by Ralph Hertwig include:

  • "Citizens Versus the Internet: Confronting Digital Challenges With Cognitive Tools" (2020), published in Gothic.net
  • "A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy" (2022), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "How behavioural sciences can promote truth, autonomy and democratic discourse online" (2020), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Public attitudes towards algorithmic personalization and use of personal data online: evidence from Germany, Great Britain, and the United States" (2021), published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • "Technology and Democracy: Understanding the influence of online technologies on political behaviour and decision-making" (2020), published by the Joint Research Centre (European Commission)

Ralph Hertwig frequently collaborates with a network of coauthors including:

  • Stephan Lewandowsky
  • Stefan M. Herzog
  • Anastasia Kozyreva
  • Philipp Lorenz-Spreen
  • Gert G. Wagner

Publication venues where Hertwig's work appears most often are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Scientific Reports
  • Behavioural Public Policy
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Ralph Hertwig received recognition from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2009 for contributions in psychology and cognitive sciences.

Best Publications

  • Decisions from Experience and the Effect of Rare Events in Risky Choice

    Ralph Hertwig;Greg Barron;Elke U. Weber;Ido Erev

  • The description-experience gap in risky choice

    Ralph Hertwig;Ido Erev

  • The Priority Heuristic: Making Choices Without Trade-Offs

    Edouard Brandstätter;Gerd Gigerenzer;Ralph Hertwig

  • Experimental practices in economics: A methodological challenge for psychologists?

    Ralph Hertwig;Andreas Ortmann

  • Communicating Statistical Information

    Ulrich Hoffrage;Samuel Lindsey;Ralph Hertwig;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Heuristics: The Foundations of Adaptive Behavior

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Ralph Hertwig;Thorsten Pachur

  • Nudging and Boosting: Steering or Empowering Good Decisions.

    Ralph Hertwig;Till Grüne-Yanoff

  • The "conjunction fallacy" revisited : How intelligent inferences look like reasoning errors

    Ralph Hertwig;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • Do Frequency Representations Eliminate Conjunction Effects? An Exercise in Adversarial Collaboration

    Barbara Mellers;Ralph Hertwig;Daniel Kahneman

  • The role of representative design in an ecological approach to cognition

    Mandeep K. Dhami;Ralph Hertwig;Ulrich Hoffrage

  • Risk preference shares the psychometric structure of major psychological traits

    Renato Frey;Renato Frey;Andreas Pedroni;Andreas Pedroni;Rui Mata;Jörg Rieskamp

  • Age differences in risky choice: a meta-analysis

    Rui Mata;Anika K. Josef;Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin;Ralph Hertwig

  • How forgetting aids heuristic inference

    Lael J. Schooler;Ralph Hertwig

  • Nudge Versus Boost: How Coherent are Policy and Theory?

    Till Grüne-Yanoff;Ralph Hertwig

  • Grandparental investment: past, present, and future.

    David A. Coall;Ralph Hertwig

  • “A 30% Chance of Rain Tomorrow”: How Does the Public Understand Probabilistic Weather Forecasts?

    Gerd Gigerenzer;Ralph Hertwig;Eva Van den Broek;Barbara Fasolo

  • Time and moral judgment

    Renata S. Suter;Ralph Hertwig

  • A choice prediction competition: Choices from experience and from description

    Ido Erev;Eyal Ert;Alvin E. Roth;Ernan Haruvy

  • Hindsight bias : A by-product of knowledge updating?

    Ulrich Hoffrage;Ralph Hertwig;Gerd Gigerenzer

  • The truth about lies: A meta-analysis on dishonest behavior.

    Philipp Gerlach;Kinneret Teodorescu;Ralph Hertwig

  • Parental investment : How an equity motive can produce inequality

    Ralph Hertwig;Jennifer Nerissa Davis;Frank J. Sulloway

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerd Gigerenzer
Gerd Gigerenzer Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Rui Mata
Rui Mata University of Basel
Stephan Lewandowsky
Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol
Jörg Rieskamp
Jörg Rieskamp University of Basel
Elke U. Weber
Elke U. Weber Princeton University
Peter M. Todd
Peter M. Todd Indiana University
Barbara A. Mellers
Barbara A. Mellers University of Pennsylvania
Peter Sedlmeier
Peter Sedlmeier Chemnitz University of Technology
Martin Härter
Martin Härter Universität Hamburg

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