Ralph Hertwig | Career highlights

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Academic Qualifications

2003 Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin

Unbinding Bounded Rationality: Theoretical, Empirical, and Methodological Investigations.

1995 Ph.D. (Dr. rer soc.), Cognitive Psychology, University of Konstanz

Why Dr. Gould's homunculus doesn't think like Dr. Gould: The “conjunction fallacy” reconsidered.

1991 M.A. (Diplom-Psychologe), University of Konstanz


Main Academic Appointments

2005–2012 Full Professor for Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Basel
2008–2011 Dean of research, Department of Psychology, University of Basel
2011–2012 Dean, Department of Psychology, University of Basel
since 2012 Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
since 2013 Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
since 2016 Honorary Professor, Freie Universität Berlin


Selected Awards

2017 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, German Research Foundation
2012 Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science   
2006 Charlotte and Karl Bühler Early Career Award, German Society for Psychology


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