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"
- Member, German National Academy of Science and Engineering acatech
- Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 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 |
| 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)
- Lejarraga, T., & Hertwig, R. (2022). Three theories of choice and their psychology of losses. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 17(2), 334–345. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211001332
- Hertwig, R., & Wulff, D. U. (2021). A description-experience framework of the psychology of risk. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 17(3), 631–651. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211026896
- Pleskac, T. J., Conradt, L., Leuker, C., & Hertwig, R. (2021). The ecology of competition: A theory of risk-reward environments in adaptive decision making. Psychological Review, 128(2), 315–335. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000261
- Hertwig, R., & Engel, C. (Eds.). (2020). Deliberate ignorance: Choosing not to know. MIT Press.
- Please find a review by Thomas Hills here.
- 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100620946707
- 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, 4, 1102–1109. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0889-7
- Spiliopoulos, L., & Hertwig, R. (2020). A map of ecologically rational heuristics for uncertain strategic worlds. Psychological Review, 127(2), 245–280. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000171