Ralph Hertwig | Publications

Haux, L. M., Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., & Hertwig, R. (in press). Adaptive exploration in chimpanzees. Nature Communications.

Herzog, S. M., & Hertwig, R. (2025). Boosting: Empowering citizens with behavioral science. Annual Review of Psychology, 76, 851–881. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-020924-124753

Abels, C. M., Huttunen, K. J. A., Hertwig, R., & Lewandowsky, S. (2024). Dodging the autocratic bullet: Enlisting behavioural science to arrest democratic backsliding. Behavioural Public Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2024.43

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. (2024). The psychology of life's most important decisions. American Psychologist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001439

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

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

Lejarraga, T., Woike, J. K., & Hertwig, R. (2024). What makes depression babies different: Expectations or preferences? Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 44, Article 100998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.100998

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

Spiliopoulos, L., & Hertwig, R. (2024). Noisy retrieval of experienced probabilities underlies rational judgment of uncertain multiple events. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 37(5), Article e70002. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.70002

Sultan, M., Tump, A. N., Ehmann, N., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Hertwig, R., Gollwitzer, A., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2024). Susceptibility to online misinformation: A systematic meta-analysis of demographic and psychological factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(47), Article e2409329121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2409329121