Stefan Herzog

Herzog, Stefan

Senior Research Scientist

Adaptive Rationalität
+49 30 82406-406

herzog@mpib-berlin.mpg.de

Publikationsreferenzen

Forschungsinteressen

Head of Research Area Boosting Decision Making

Stärkung (“boosting”) der menschlichen Urteils- und der Entscheidungsfindung “online” und “offline” (scienceofboosting.org) durch Erforschen der Entscheidungen von Menschen und Algorithmen und wie Menschen Algorithmen verstehen
Kombination von Erkenntnissen und Methoden aus der Kognitionswissenschaft, der kollektiven Intelligenz (“Weisheit der Vielen”), Heuristiken und Algorithmen
Anwendungen in den Bereichen digitale Öffentlichkeit, medizinische Entscheidungsfindung und Meteorologie

Vita

Ausführliche, englische Vita (CV): PDF

2021 – Senior Research Scientist and Head of Research Area "Boosting Decision Making" | Forschungsbereich für Adaptive Rationalität (ARC), Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
2012 – 2021 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Forschungsbereich für Adaptive Rationalität (ARC), Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin; seit 2019 Head of Research Area Boosting Decision Making
2009 – 2012 Oberassistent | Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Fakultät für Psychologie, Universität Basel
2009 Dr. phil. (summa cum laude) | Universität Basel
2005 M. Sc. Psychologie (summa cum laude) | Universität Basel
2003 B. Sc. Psychologie (magna cum laude) | Universität Basel

Fünf ausgewählte, aktuelle peer-reviewed Publikationen

* geteilte Autorenschaft / gleicher Beitrag | $ senior authorship

Litvinova*, A., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Hertwig, R., & Herzog*$, S. M. (2022). How experts' own inconsistency relates to their confidence and between-expert disagreement. Scientific Reports, 12, 9273. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12847-5
Lorenz-Spreen*, P., Geers, M., Pachur, T., Hertwig, R., Lewandowsky, S., & Herzog*$, S. M. (2021). Boosting people’s ability to detect microtargeted advertising. Scientific Reports, 11, 15541. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94796-z
Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Herzog, S. M., Hertwig, R., Krause, J., & Wolf, M. (2021). Pooling decisions decreases variation in response bias and accuracy. iScience, 102740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102740
Kozyreva*, A., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Hertwig, R., Lewandowsky, S., & Herzog*$, S. M. (2021). Public attitudes towards algorithmic personalization and use of personal data online: Evidence from Germany, Great Britain, and the US. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8(117). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00787-w
Analytis, P. P., Barkoczi, D., Lorenz-Spreen, P., & Herzog$, S. M. (2020). The structure of social influence in recommender networks. In WWW '20: Proceedings of the 2020 International World Wide Web Conference. Taipei, Taiwan - April 20-24, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3366423.3380020

Zehn ausgewählte peer-reviewed Publikationen

* geteilte Autorenschaft / gleicher Beitrag | $ senior authorship

Litvinova*, A., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Hertwig, R., & Herzog*$, S. M. (2022). How experts' own inconsistency relates to their confidence and between-expert disagreement. Scientific Reports, 12, 9273. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12847-5
Kozyreva*, A., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Hertwig, R., Lewandowsky, S., & Herzog*$, S. M. (2021). Public attitudes towards algorithmic personalization and use of personal data online: Evidence from Germany, Great Britain, and the US. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00787-w
Lorenz-Spreen*, P., Geers, M., Pachur, T., Hertwig, R., Lewandowsky, S., & Herzog*$, S. M. (2021). Boosting people’s ability to detect microtargeted advertising. Scientific Reports, 11, 15541. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94796-z
Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Herzog, S. M., Hertwig, R., Krause, J., Moussaid, M., Argenziano, G., … Wolf, M. (2019). How to detect high-performing individuals and groups: Decision similarity predicts accuracy. Science Advances, 5, eaaw9011. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw9011
Analytis*, P. P., Barkoczi*, D., & Herzog*$, S. M. (2018). Social learning strategies for matters of taste. Nature Human Behavior, 2, 415–424. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0343-2
Herzog, S. M., & von Helversen, B. (2018). Strategy selection versus strategy blending: A predictive perspective on single- and multi-strategy accounts in multiple-cue estimation. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31, 233–249. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1958
Moussaïd, M., Herzog, S. M., Kämmer, J. E., & Hertwig, R. (2017). Reach and speed of judgment propagation in the laboratory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(16), 4117–4122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611998114
Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Herzog, S. M., Hertwig, R., Krause, J., Carney, P. A., Bogart, A., et al. (2016). Boosting medical diagnostics by pooling independent judgments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, 8777–8782. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601827113
Herzog, S. M., & Hertwig, R. (2014). Harnessing the wisdom of the inner crowd. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18, 504–506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2014.06.009
Herzog, S. M., & Hertwig, R. (2009). The wisdom of many in one mind: Improving individual judgments with dialectical bootstrapping. Psychological Science, 20, 231–237. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02271.x