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Hechtlinger, Shahar

Predoctoral Fellow
Adaptive Rationality
    • Publications

    Main Focus

    • Search and choice processes in transformative life decisions, especially:
      • emigrating or fleeing a country
      • career decisions
      • trauma resolution (e.g., whether to disclose a sexual assault)
      • decisions involving deliberate ignorance (e.g., whether to undergo genetic testing)
      • ideologically motivated decisions (e.g., whether to demonstrate against a totalitarian regime, whether to join a terror organization)
    • Decision making under conditions of radical uncertainty and lack of experience-based knowledge (e.g., AI-driven societal transformation, extreme weather events)
    • Social-learning strategies
    • Natural language processing (NLP), especially classification algorithms
    • Adaptive and maladaptive beliefs
    • Philosophy of science, especially explanation in the cognitive sciences

    Awards

    Publications

    Hechtlinger, S., Hertwig, R., & Schulze, C. (2025). How people make the most important decisions in their lives. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2sv8k_v1 (under review)
      
    Hechtlinger, S., Schulze, C., Leuker, C., & Hertwig, R. (2024). The psychology of life's most important decisions. American Psychologist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001439

    Burton, J. W., Lopez-Lopez, E., Hechtlinger, S., Rahwan, Z., Aeschbach, S., Bakker, M. A., Becker, J. A., Berditchevskaia, A., Berger, J., Brinkmann, L., Flek, L., Herzog, S. M., Huang, S., Kapoor, S., Narayanan, A., Nussberger, A.-M., Yasseri, T., Nickl, P., Almaatouq, A., … Hertwig, R. (2024). How large language models can reshape collective intelligence. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01959-9

    Leuker, C., Eggeling, L. M., Fleischhut, N., Gubernath, J., Gumenik, K., Hechtlinger, S., Kozyreva, A., Samaan, L., & Hertwig, R. (2022). Misinformation in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey on citizens’ perceptions and individual differences in the belief in false information. European Journal of Health Communication, 3(2), 13-39. https://doi.org/10.47368/ejhc.2022.202

    Hechtlinger , S., & Gati, I. (2021). Gender differences in dysfunctional career decision-making beliefs and work orientations. Studies in Regulations, 3: Special issue on Employment and Gender, 35-47. https://www.colman.ac.il/media/qsmdd24h/01-hectlinger_getti.pdf (in Hebrew)

    Leuker, C., Hertwig, R., Gumenik, K., Eggeling, L. M., Hechtlinger, S., Kozyreva, A., Samaan, L., & Fleischhut, N. (2020). Wie informiert sich die Bevölkerung in Deutschland rund um das Coronavirus? Umfrage zu vorherrschenden Themen und Gründen, dem Umgang mit Fehlinformationen, sowie der Risikowahrnehmung und dem Wissen der Bevölkerung rund um das Coronavirus. Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung. https://doi.org/10.17617/2.3247925 

    Hechtlinger, S., & Gati, I. (2019). Reducing dysfunctional career decision-making beliefs: Gender differences in the effectiveness of a group intervention. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 66(4), 449–460. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000330

    Hechtlinger, S., Levin, N., & Gati, I. (2019). Dysfunctional career decision-making beliefs: A multidimensional model and measure. Journal of Career Assessment, 27(2), 209–229. 
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1069072717748677

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