Ralph Hertwig
© Arne Sattler
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)
- Hertwig, R., & Engel, C. (Eds.). (2020). Deliberate ignorance: Choosing not to know. MIT Press.
- Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., Pachur, T., & The Center for Adaptive Rationality (2019). Taming uncertainty. MIT Press.
- Kozyreva, A., Lewandowsky, S., & Hertwig, R. (2020). Citizens versus the internet: Confronting digital challenges with cognitive tools. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 21(3), 103–156.
- Lorenz-Spreen, P., Lewandowsky, S., Sunstein, C. R., & Hertwig, R. (2020). How behavioural sciences can promote truth, autonomy and democratic discourse online. Nature Human Behaviour.
- Pleskac, T. J., Conradt, L., Leuker, C., & Hertwig, R. (2020). The ecology of competition: A theory of risk-reward environments in adaptive decision making. Psychological Review.
- Spiliopoulos, L., & Hertwig, R. (2020). A map of ecologically rational heuristics for uncertain strategic worlds. Psychological Review, 127, 245–280.