© M. Buchmann
Main Focus
- Rationality and heuristics:
- Heuristics in human inference
- Policy capturing
- Decision Making in Economic contexts:
- Venture capitalist decision making
- Social learning and imitation
- Destructive Competition in Groups
- Distributive Fairness
- Methods:
- Computer simulation and modeling
- Development of online tools for interactive group research
- Evolutionary computation
- Other:
- Personal identity
- Social rationality
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Privacy in the context of Big Data
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- 2008 Dissertation in psychology (Dr. phil.), Bochum University
- 2002 Certificate as drama instructor, Unna
- 2001 Diploma in Psychology (Dipl.-Psych.), Bochum University
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1997-1998 Special Student, Psychology, Philosophy, Dramatic Arts, Harvard University, USA
- Studies in Psychology, Philosophy, German language and drama studies at Bochum University
Work experience
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2011-2012 Post-Doc, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basle, Switzerland
- 2007-2012 Post-Doc, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2005-2007 Research Asistant, Educational Management, Erfurt University TEACHING Internet-Recruiting (Bochum University) Possibilities and Limitations of Psychological Diagnostics (Bochum University)
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2003 Short-Time Lecturer, Arizona State University, USA
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2001-2003 Research Assistant, Psychology, Bochum University
Teaching
- Theatre, Improvisation and Interaction (Bochum University)
- German Drama Workshop (Arizona State University)
- Leadership (Erfurt University)
- Business Statistics (University of Lausanne)
- Applied Business Statistics (University of Lausanne)
- Management Science (University of Lausanne)
- Practical Negotiation (Basel University)
Selected publications:
- Woike, J.K. & Hafenbrädl, S.. (in press). Rivals without a cause? Relative performance feedback creates destructive competition despite aligned incentives. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
- Landy, J. F., Jia, M., Ding, I. L., Viganola, D., Tierney, W., ... , Woike, J.K., ... , Uhlmann, E. L. (2020). Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results. Psychological Bulletin. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bul0000220
- Woike, J. K., Collard, P., & Hood, B. (2020). Putting your money where your self is: Connecting dimensions of closeness and theories of personal identity. PlOS One, 15(2), e0228271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228271
- Hertwig, R., Woike, J.K., Pachur, T. & Brandstätter, E. (2019). The robust beauty of heuristics in choice under uncertainty. In Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T.J., Pachur, T. & The Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming Uncertainty. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Woike, J. K., & Kanngiesser, P. (2019). Most people keep their word rather than their money. Open Mind. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00027
- Hafenbrädl, S., & Woike, J. K. (2018). Competitive escalation and interventions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31(5), 695-714. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2084
- Stevens, J. R., Woike, J. K., Schooler, L. J., Lindner, S., & Pachur, T. (2018). Social contact patterns can buffer costs of forgetting in the evolution of cooperation. Proc. R. Soc. B, 285(1880), 20180407. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0407
- Phillips, N. D., Neth, H., Woike, J. K., & Gaissmaier, W. (2017). FFTrees: A toolbox to create, visualize, and evaluate fast-and-frugal decision trees. Judgment and Decision Making, 12(4), 344.
- Woike, J. K., Hoffrage, U., & Martignon, L. (2017). Integrating and testing natural frequencies, naïve Bayes, and fast-and-frugal trees. Decision, 4(4), 234-260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dec0000086
- 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. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.001 Full text
- 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, 1705-1716.