Ralph Hertwig | Publikationen

Anand, S., Claassen, M. A., Riedy, C. A., & Hertwig, R. (2026). The toothbrushing boost toolbox: Competence-building behavioral strategies for oral health. Frontiers in Public Health, 14, Article 1834743. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1834743

Fuławka, K., Hertwig, R., & Wulff, D. U. (2026). Large language models accurately identify decision reasons in verbal reports. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(27), Article e2526798123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2526798123

Gollwitzer, A., Tump, A. N., Martel, C., Deffner, D., Sultan, M., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., & Hertwig, R. (2026). Toward a mechanistic understanding of false news sharing: Which interventions work best, for whom, and why. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 155(6), 1550–1574. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001928

Hechtlinger, S., Schulze, C., Leuker, C., & Hertwig, R. (2026). The psychology of life's most important decisions. American Psychologist, 81(2), 157–183. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001439

Offer, K., Rahwan, Z., & Hertwig, R. (2026). Foucault’s error: The power of not knowing. European Review of Social Psychology, 37(1), 130–165. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2024.2383085

Oswald, L., Kozyreva, A., Herzog, S. M., Nickl, P. L., & Hertwig, R. (2026). Boosting media literacy using lateral reading and online search interventions. Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976261453813

Tiede, K. E., Hertwig, R., Mata, R., & Wulff, D. U. (2026). Communicating risks more comprehensively using simulated experience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 30(3), 200–202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.004

Wegwarth, O., & Hertwig, R. (2026). Short report: Association between self-reported COVID-19 experience and contemptuous beliefs about pandemic management among German citizens and healthcare professionals. Journal of Public Health, 48(1), 332–337. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaf144

Woike, J. K., Hafenbrädl, S., Kanngiesser, P., & Hertwig, R. (2026). Partisan differences in risk-taking in a simulated pandemic. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 39(2), Article e70066. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.70066

Claassen, M. A., Mata, J., & Hertwig, R. (2025). The (mis-)measurement of food decisions. Appetite, 209, Article 107928. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2025.107928

Fraemke, D., Willems, Y. E., Okbay, A., Lindenberger, U., Zinn, S., Wagner, G., Richter, D., Harden, K. P., Tucker-Drob, E. M., Hertwig, R., Koellinger, P., & Raffington, L. (2025). Polygenic associations with educational attainment in East versus West Germany: Differences emerge after reunification. Psychological Science, 36(7), 559–573. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251350965

Haux, L. M., Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., & Hertwig, R. (2025). Chimpanzees adapt their exploration to key properties of the environment. Nature Communications, 16, Article 1807. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57022-2

Hertwig, R., & Lewandowsky, S. (2025). How citizens' experience of democracy can actually pave the way to democratic backsliding. Communications Psychology, 3, Article 144. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00327-1

Hertwig, R., Michie, S., Reicher, S., & West, R. (2025). A reply to Luc Bovens: Ethics and impact of boosting and nudging. Behavioural Public Policy, 9(4), 894–897. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2025.8

Hertwig, R., Michie, S., West, R., & Reicher, S. (2025). Moving from nudging to boosting: Empowering behaviour change to address global challenges. Behavioural Public Policy, 9(4), 874–885. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2025.9

Herzog, S. M., & Hertwig, R. (2025). Boosting: Empowering citizens with behavioral science. Annual Review of Psychology, 76, 851–881. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020924-124753

Hintze, A., Bisht, C., Schossau, J., & Hertwig, R. (2025). Nonlinear transformation of probabilities by large language models. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 6, Article 100227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2025.100227

Hofmann, W., Betsch, C., Böhm, R., de Ridder, D., Drews, S., Ewert, B., Hertwig, R., Sniehotta, F. F., & Mata, J. (2025). Rethinking behaviour change interventions in policymaking. Nature Human Behaviour, 9, 1765–1767. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02284-5

Kerbl, L., Rahwan, Z., Hertwig, R., & Ciranka, S. (2025). More than incurious: The development of deliberate ignorance. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29(12), 1083–1085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.09.015

Lewandowsky, S., & Hertwig, R. (2025). Critical ignoring when information abundance is detrimental to democracy. Current Opinion in Psychology, 66, Article 102128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102128