Ralph Hertwig

Director
Center for Adaptive Rationality

Assistance:
Maren Kutscha
Katja Münz
Petra Siemers-Hering

Phone: +49 30 82406-202
sekhertwig@mpib-berlin.mpg.de

Memberships and Service (Selection)

• Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Section "Psychology and Cognitive Sciences"
• Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (APS)
• Member, Wilhelm-Wundt-Gesellschaft
• Faculty, International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE)
• Fellow, Max Planck School of Cognition
• Faculty, International Max Planck Research School for Computational Methods in Psychiatry and Ageing Research (COMP2PSYCH)

Research interests

• Models of bounded and ecological rationality
• Decisions from experience
• The psychology of risk
• Lifespan development of decision making
• Evidence-based public policy (Boosting)

Short CV

2017	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
since 2016	Honorary professor, Freie Universität Berlin
since 2013	Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
since 2012	Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
since 2010	Elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2005–2012	Full Professor for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the Department of Psychology, University of Basel
2003	Habilitation in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin
1995	Ph. D. (Dr. rer soc.) in Psychology, Universität Konstanz

Selection of recent publications

(the complete list of publications can be found here)

Spiliopoulos, L., & Hertwig, R. (2020). A map of ecologically rational heuristics for uncertain strategic worlds. Psychological Review, 127, 245–280.

El Zein, M., Bahrami, B., & Hertwig, R. (2019). Shared responsibility in collective decisions. Nature Human Behaviour, 3, 554-559.

Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., Pachur, T., & The Center for Adaptive Rationality (2019). Taming uncertainty. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hertwig, R., Wulff, D. U., & Mata, R. (2019). Three gaps and what they may mean for risk preference. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: B, Biological Sciences, 374:20180140.

Hertwig, R., & Grüne-Yanoff, T. (2017). Nudging and boosting: Steering or empowering good decisions. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 973-986.

Hertwig, R., & Engel, C. (2016). Homo ignorans: Deliberately choosing not to know. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 359-372.