Publications of Thorsten Pachur

Frank, C. C., & Pachur, T. (in press). The affect gap in risky choice is similar for younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging.

Tiede, K. E., Gaissmaier, W., & Pachur, T. (2025). Is there a description-experience gap in choices between a described and an experienced option? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 51(4), 552–574. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001417

Waters, E. A., Pachur, T., Pogge, G., Hunleth, J., Webster, G. D., Fedele, D. A., & Shepperd, J. A. (2025). How are mental representations of asthma triggers and symptoms related to interpersonal risk perceptions? A psychometric investigation of caregivers of children with asthma. Psychology & Health, 40(4), 571–593. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2023.2244522

Bolenz, F., & Pachur, T. (2024). Older adults select different but not simpler strategies than younger adults in risky choice. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(6), Article e1012204. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012204

Clarmann von Clarenau, V., Appelhoff, S., Pachur, T., & Spitzer, B. (2024). Over- and underweighting of extreme values in decisions from sequential samples. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(3), 814–826. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001530

Fuławka, K., Hertwig, R., & Pachur, T. (2024). COVID-19 vaccine refusal is driven by deliberate ignorance and cognitive distortions. npj Vaccines, 9, Article 167. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-024-00951-8

Kreis, B. K., Groß, J., & Pachur, T. (2024). Real-world estimation taps into basic numeric abilities. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02575-4

Pachur, T. (2024). The perception of dramatic risks: Biased media, but unbiased minds. Cognition, 246, Article 105736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105736

Waters, E. A., Pachur, T., Pogge, G., Hunleth, J., Webster, G. D., Fedele, D. A., & Shepperd, J. A. (2024). Managing children’s asthma: What role do caregivers’ mental representations of trigger and symptom management behaviors play? Psychology & Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2347657

Groß, J., Kreis, B. K., Blank, H., & Pachur, T. (2023). Knowledge updating in real-world estimation: Connecting hindsight bias and seeding effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(11), 3167–3188. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001452