Publications of Thorsten Pachur

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.

Schwartz, B., Richerson, P. J., Berkman, B. E., Frankenreiter, J., Hagmann, D., Isaacowitz, D. M., Pachur, T., Schooler, L. J., & Wehling, P. (2020). The deep structure of deliberate ignorance: Mapping the terrain. In R. Hertwig & C. Engel (Eds.), Deliberate ignorance: Choosing not to know (pp. 65–88). MIT Press.

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