Main Focus
Head of Research Area Development of Decision Making
- Experience-based decisions under uncertainty
- Childhood development of decision making strategies
- Cognitive models of judgment and decision making
- Social and group decision-making
Curriculum Vitae
since 2019 Senior Research Scientist | Max Planck Institute for Human Development
since 2019 Adjunct Associate Professor | The Arctic University of Norway
2015 – 2017 Researcher | Max Planck Institute for Human Development
2015 – 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Max Planck Institute for Human Development
2015 Ph.D. Psychology | University of New South Wales
2011 M.Sc. Psychology (Dipl. Psych.) | Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
Selected Literature
Schulze, C., Hertwig, R., & Pachur, T. (2021). Who you know is what you know: Modeling boundedly rational social sampling. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(2), 221–241.
Schulze, C., Gaissmaier, W., & Newell, B. R. (2020). Maximizing as satisficing: On pattern matching and probability maximizing in groups and individuals. Cognition, 205, Article 104382.
Schulze, C., James, G., Koehler D. J., & Newell, B. R. (2019). Probability matching does not decrease under cognitive load: A preregistered failure to replicate. Memory & Cognition, 47, 511–518.
Schulze, C., van Ravenzwaaij, D., & Newell, B. R. (2017). Hold it! The influence of lingering rewards on choice diversification and persistence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43, 1752–1767.
Navarro, D. J., Newell, B. R., & Schulze, C. (2016). Learning and choosing in an uncertain world: An investigation of the explore–exploit dilemma in static and dynamic environments. Cognitive Psychology, 85, 43–77.
Schulze, C., & Newell, B. R. (2016). More heads choose better than one: Group decision making can eliminate probability matching. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 907–914.
Schulze, C., & Newell, B. R. (2016). Taking the easy way out? Increasing implementation effort reduces probability maximizing under cognitive load. Memory & Cognition, 44, 806–818.
Schulze, C., & Newell, B. R. (2015). Compete, coordinate, and cooperate: How to exploit uncertain environments with social interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 967–981.
Schulze, C., van Ravenzwaaij, D., & Newell, B. R. (2015). Of matchers and maximizers: How competition shapes choice under risk and uncertainty. Cognitive Psychology, 78, 78–98.