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
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 |
| 2016– | Honorary professor, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2013– | Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 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)
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.