Ralph Hertwig | Publications

Abels, C. M., Huttunen, K. J. A., Hertwig, R., & Lewandowsky, S. (in press). Dodging the autocratic bullet: Enlisting behavioural science to arrest democratic backsliding. Behavioural Public Policy.

Burton, J. W., Lopez-Lopez, E., Hechtlinger, S., Rahwan, Z., Aeschbach, S., Bakker, M. A., Becker, J. A., Berditchevskaia, A., Berger, J., Brinkmann, L., Flek, L., Herzog, S. M., Huang, S., Kapoor, S., Narayanan, A., Nussberger, A.-M., Yasseri, T., Nickl, P., Almaatouq, A., Hahn, U., Kurvers, R. H. J. M., Leavy, S., Rahwan, I., Siddarth, D., Siu, A., Woolley, A. W., Wulff, D. U., & Hertwig, R. (2024). How large language models can reshape collective intelligence. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1643–1655. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01959-9

Dallacker, M., Appelius, L., Brandmaier, A. M., Morais, A. S., & Hertwig, R. (2024). Opt-out defaults do not increase organ donation rates. Public Health, 236, 436–440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2024.08.009

Fuławka, K., Hertwig, R., & Pachur, T. (2024). COVID-19 vaccine refusal is driven by deliberate ignorance and cognitive distortions. npj Vaccines, 9, Article 167. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-024-00951-8

Geers, M., Swire-Thompson, B., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S. M., Kozyreva, A., & Hertwig, R. (2024). The online misinformation engagement framework. Current Opinion in Psychology, 55, Article 101739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101739

Hechtlinger, S., Schulze, C., Leuker, C., & Hertwig, R. (in press). The psychology of life's most important decisions. American Psychologist.

Hertwig, R., Herzog, S. M., & Kozyreva, A. (2024). Blinding to circumvent human biases: Deliberate ignorance in humans, institutions, and machines. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(5), 849–859. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231188052

Herzog, S. M., & Hertwig, R. (in press). Boosting: Empowering citizens with behavioral science. Annual Review of Psychology.

Huang, Y., Luan, S., Wu, B., Li, Y., Wu, J., Chen, W., & Hertwig, R. (2024). Impulsivity is a stable, measurable, and predictive psychological trait. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(24), Article e2321758121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321758121

Kozyreva, A., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Herzog, S. M., Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Hertwig, R., Ali, A., Bak-Coleman, J., Barzilai, S., Basol, M., Berinsky, A. J., Betsch, C., Cook, J., Fazio, L. K., Geers, M., Guess, A. M., Huang, H., Larreguy, H., Maertens, R., Panizza, F., Pennycook, G., Rand, D. G., Rathje, S., Reifler, J., Schmid, P., Smith, M., Swire-Thompson, B., Szewach, P., van der Linden, S., & Wineburg, S. (2024). Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1044–1052. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01881-0

Lejarraga, T., Schnitzlein, D. D., Dahmann, S. C., & Hertwig, R. (2024). Birth-order effects on risk taking are limited to the family environment. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1531(1), 60–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15085

Li, Y., Breithaupt, F., Hills, T., Lin, Z., Chen, Y., Siew, C. S. W., & Hertwig, R. (2024). How cognitive selection affects language change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(1), Article e2220898120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220898120

Offer, K., Rahwan, Z., & Hertwig, R. (2024). Foucault’s error: The power of not knowing. European Review of Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2024.2383085

Ruggeri, K., Vanderslott, S., Yamada, Y., Argyris, Y. A., Većkalov, B., Boggio, P. S., Fallah, M. P., Stock, F., & Hertwig, R. (2024). Behavioural interventions to reduce vaccine hesitancy driven by misinformation on social media. BMJ, 384, Article e076542. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-076542

Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Wagner, G. G., & Hertwig, R. (2024). How personal experiences shaped risk judgements during COVID-19. Journal of Risk Research, 27(3), 438–457. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2024.2350712

Spiliopoulos, L., & Hertwig, R. (2024). Stochastic heuristics for decisions under risk and uncertainty. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1438581. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1438581

Wegwarth, O., Hertwig, R., Giese, H., & Fineberg, H. V. (2024). The impact of nontransparent health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic on vaccine-hesitant people's perception of vaccines. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, Article 1256829. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1256829

Willems, Y. E., deSteiguer, A., Tanksley, P. T., Vinnik, L., Fraemke, D., Okbay, A., Richter, D., Wagner, G. G., Hertwig, R., Koellinger, P., Tucker-Drob, E. M., Harden, K. P., & Raffington, L. (2024). Self-control is associated with health-relevant disparities in buccal DNA-methylation measures of biological aging in older adults. Clinical Epigenetics, 16, Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-024-01637-7

Zickfeld, J. H., Ścigała, K. A., Elbæk, C. T., Michael, J., Tønnesen, M. H., Levy, G., Ayal, S., Thielmann, I., Nockur, L., Peer, E., Capraro, V., Barkan, R., Bø, S., Bahník, Š., Nosenzo, D., Hertwig, R., Mazar, N., Weiss, A., Koessler, A.-K., Montal-Rosenberg, R., Hafenbrädl, S., Nielsen, Y. A., Kanngiesser, P., Schindler, S., Gerlach, P., Köbis, N., Jacquemet, N., Vranka, M., Ariely, D., Martuza, J. B., Feldman, Y., Białek, M., Woike, J. K., Rahwan, Z., Seidl, A., Chou, E., Kajackaite, A., Schudy, S., Glogowsky, U., Czarna, A. Z., Pfattheicher, S., & Mitkidis, P. (in press). Effectiveness of ex-ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content. Nature Human Behaviour.

Appelhoff, S., Hertwig, R., & Spitzer, B. (2023). Control over sampling boosts numerical evidence processing in human decisions from experience. Cerebral Cortex, 33(1), 207–221. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhac062