Publications of Thorsten Pachur

Pachur, T., & Hertwig, R. (2006). On the psychology of the recognition heuristic: Retrieval primacy as a key determinant of its use. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32(5), 983–1002. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.32.5.983

Hertwig, R., Pachur, T., & Kurzenhäuser, S. (2005). Judgments of risk frequencies: Tests of possible cognitive mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31(4), 621–642. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.31.4.621

Hanoch, Y., & Pachur, T. (2004). Nurses as information providers: Facilitating understanding and communication of statistical information. Nurse Education Today, 24(3), 236–243.

Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., Pachur, T., & the Center for Adaptive Rationality. (2019). Taming uncertainty. MIT Press.

Gigerenzer, G., Hertwig, R., & Pachur, T. (Eds.). (2011). Heuristics: The foundations of adaptive behavior. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744282.001.0001

Hecht, M., Schulze, C., & Pachur, T. (in press). Models of social sampling. In T. Reimer, L. van Swol, & A. Florack (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of communication and social cognition. Routledge.

Pachur, T., & Zilker, V. (in press). Psychological theories of decision making under risk. In G. Pogrebna & T. T. Hills (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of behavioral data science. Cambridge University Press.

Zenkri, O., Bolenz, F., Pachur, T., & Brock, O. (2025). Extracting principles of exploration strategies with a complex ecological task. In O. Brock & J. Krichmar (Eds.), From animals to animats 17: 17th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2024, Irvine, CA, USA, September 9–12, 2024. Proceedings (pp. 289–300). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71533-4_22

Pachur, T., & Schulze, C. (2023). Heuristic social sampling. In K. Fiedler, P. Juslin, & J. Denrell (Eds.), Sampling in judgment and decision making (pp. 359–384). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009002042.021

Pachur, T. (2021). Mapping heuristics and prospect theory: A study of theory integration. In R. Viale (Ed.), Routledge handbook of bounded rationality (pp. 324–337). Routledge.