Adaptive Behavior and Cognition - Publications

Arkes, H. R., & Gaissmaier, W. (2012). Psychological research and the prostate-cancer screening controversy. Psychological Science, 23(6), 547–553. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612437428

Betsch, C., Brewer, N. T., Brocard, P., Davies, P., Gaissmaier, W., Haase, N., Leask, J., Renkewitz, F., Renner, B., Reyna, V. F., Rossmann, C., Sachse, K., Schachinger, A., Siegrist, M., & Stryk, M. (2012). Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 for vaccination decisions. Vaccine, 30(25), 3727–3733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.02.025

Bodemer, N., Müller, S. M., Okan, Y., Garcia-Retamero, R., & Neumeyer-Gromen, A. (2012). Do the media provide transparent health information? A cross-cultural comparison of public information about the HPV vaccine. Vaccine, 30(25), 3747–3756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.03.005

Bodemer, N., & Ruggeri, A. (2012). Finding a good research question, in theory. Science, 335(6075), 1439–1439. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.335.6075.1439-a

Brighton, H. J., & Gigerenzer, G. (2012). Homo heuristicus: Less-is-more effects in adaptive cognition. Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, 19(4), 6–16.

Cokely, E. T., Galesic, M., Schulz, E., Ghazal, S., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2012). Measuring risk literacy: The Berlin Numeracy Test. Judgment and Decision Making, 7(1), 25–47.

Durand, M.-A., Wegwarth, O., Boivin, J., & Elwyn, G. (2012). Design and usability of heuristic-based deliberation tools for women facing amniocentesis. Health Expectations, 15(1), 32–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00651.x

Feltz, A., & Cokely, E. T. (2012). The philosophical personality argument. Philosophical Studies, 161(2), 227–246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-011-9731-4

Feufel, M. A., & Stahl, S. F. (2012). What do web-use skill differences imply for online health information searches? Journal of Medical Internet Research, 14(3), 321–331. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.2051

Gaissmaier, W. (2012). Warum Patienten ein Recht auf verständliche Informationen haben. Bauchredner, 108, 85–89.

Gaissmaier, W., & Gigerenzer, G. (2012). 9/11, Act II: A fine-grained analysis of regional variations in traffic fatalities in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. Psychological Science, 23(12), 1449–1454. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612447804

Gaissmaier, W., Wegwarth, O., Skopec, D., Müller, A.-S., Broschinski, S., & Politi, M. C. (2012). Numbers can be worth a thousand pictures: Individual differences in understanding graphical and numerical representations of health-related information. Health Psychology, 31(3), 286–296. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024850

Galesic, M., & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2012). The risks we dread: A social circle account. PLoS ONE, 7(4), Article e32837. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032837

Galesic, M., Olsson, H., & Rieskamp, J. (2012). Social sampling explains apparent biases in judgments of social environments. Psychological Science, 23(12), 1515–1523. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612445313

Garcia-Retamero, R., & Cokely, E. T. (2012). Advances in efficient health communication: Promoting prevention and detection of STDs. Current HIV Research, 10(3), 262–270. https://doi.org/10.2174/157016212800618084

Garcia-Retamero, R., & Galesic, M. (2012). Doc, what would you do if you were me? On self-other discrepancies in medical decision making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 18(1), 38–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026018

García-Retamero, R., Müller, S. M., & Rousseau, D. L. (2012). The impact of value similarity and power on the perception of threat. Political Psychology, 33(2), 179–193. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00869.x

Garcia-Retamero, R., Okan, Y., & Cokely, E. T. (2012). Using visual aids to improve communication of risks about health. The Scientific World Journal, Article 562637. https://doi.org/10.1100/2012/562637

Gigerenzer, G., & Galesic, M. (2012). Why do single event probabilities confuse patients? Statements of frequency are better for communicating risk. BMJ, 344(7839), Article e245. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e245

Gigerenzer, G., & Sturm, T. (2012). How (far) can rationality be naturalized? Synthese, 187(1), 243–268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-0030-6