Publications of Jan K. Woike

Lejarraga, T., Woike, J. K., & Hertwig, R. (2016). Description and experience: How experimental investors learn about booms and busts affects their financial risk taking. Cognition, 157, 365–383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.001

Woike, J. K., Hoffrage, U., & Petty , J. S. (2015). Picking profitable investments: the success of equal weighting in simulated venture capitalist decision making. Journal of Business Research, 68(8), 1705–1716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.03.030

Hertwig, R., Meier, N., Nickel, C., Zimmermann, P.-C., Ackermann, S., Woike, J. K., & Bingisser, R. (2013). Correlates of diagnostic accuracy in patients with nonspecific complaints. Medical Decision Making, 33(4), 533–543. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X12470975

Hertwig, R., Woike, J. K., Pachur, T., & Brandstätter, E. (2019). The robust beauty of heuristics in choice under uncertainty. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. 29–50). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0006

Lejarraga, T., Woike, J. K., & Hertwig, R. (2019). Experiences and descriptions of financial uncertainty: Are they equivalent? In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. 191–205). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0015

Woike, J. K., Bonardi, J.-P., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2013). When groups should not imitate their most successful members. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Cooperative minds: Social interaction and group dynamics. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3795–3800). Cognitive Science Society.

Woike, J. K., Hoffrage, U., & Hertwig, R. (2012). Estimating quantities: Comparing simple heuristics and machine learning algorithms. In A. E. P. Villa, W. Duch, P. Érdi, F. Masulli, & G. Palm (Eds.), Artificial neural networks and machine learning: ICANN 2012. 22nd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 11-14, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 2, pp. 483–490). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33266-1_60

Wegwarth, O., Balzer, F., Boie, S. D., Giesa, N., Müller, A., Woike, J. K., Spies, C., & Giese, H. (2025). Leveraging fast-and-frugal trees in a multi-model framework to predict postoperative delirium from routine clinical data. OSF Preprints, January 22, 2025. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/kn6sm