Publications of Thorsten Pachur

Pachur, T., Bröder, A., & Marewski, J. N. (2008). The recognition heuristic in memory-based inference: Is recognition a non-compensatory cue? Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21(2), 183–210. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.581

Pachur, T., & Biele, G. (2007). Forecasting from ignorance: The use and usefulness of recognition in lay predictions of sports events. Acta Psychologica, 125(1), 99–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.07.002

Bennis, W. M., & Pachur, T. (2006). Fast and frugal heuristics in sports. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 7(6), 611–629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2006.06.002

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

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

Dai, J., Pachur, T., Pleskac, T. J., & Hertwig, R. (2019). Tomorrow never knows: Why and how uncertainty matters in intertemporal choice. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. 175–189). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0014

Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., & Pachur, T. (2019). Preface. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. XI-XIII). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0001

Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., & Pachur, T. (2019). Reckoning with uncertainty: Our program of research. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. 3–25). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0004