Ralph Hertwig | Publications

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

Ciranka, S., & Hertwig, R. (2023). Environmental statistics and experience shape risk-taking across adolescence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.08.020

Dallacker, M., Knobl, V., Hertwig, R., & Mata, J. (2023). Effect of longer family meals on children's fruit and vegetable intake: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Network Open, 6(4), Article e236331. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.6331

Haux, L. M., Engelmann, J. M., Arslan, R. C., Hertwig, R., & Herrmann, E. (2023). Chimpanzee and human risk preferences show key similarities. Psychological Science, 34(3), 358–369. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221140326

Hertwig, R. (2023). The citizen choice architect in an ultra-processed world. Behavioural Public Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2023.9

Hertwig, R. (2023). The real cause of our complicity: The preoccupation with human weakness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, Article e161. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23000936

Hertwig, R., Herzog, S. M., & Kozyreva, A. (2023). Blinding to circumvent human biases: Deliberate ignorance in humans, institutions, and machines. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231188052

Kozyreva, A., Herzog, S. M., Lewandowsky, S., Hertwig, R., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Leiser, M., & Reifler, J. (2023). Resolving content moderation dilemmas between free speech and harmful misinformation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(7), Article e2210666120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2210666120

Kozyreva, A., Wineburg, S., Lewandowsky, S., & Hertwig, R. (2023). Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(1), 81–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221121570

Lorenz-Spreen, P., Oswald, L., Lewandowsky, S., & Hertwig, R. (2023). A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 74–101. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01460-1

Pedersen, M. K., Díaz, C. M. C., Wang, Q. J., Alba-Marrugo, M. A., Amidi, A., Basaiawmoit, R. V., Bergenholtz, C., Christiansen, M. H., Gajdacz, M., Hertwig, R., Ishkhanyan, B., Klyver, K., Ladegaard, N., Mathiasen, K., Parsons, C., Rafner, J., Villadsen, A. R., Wallentin, M., Zana, B., & Sherson, J. F. (2023). Measuring cognitive abilities in the wild: Validating a population-scale game-based cognitive assessment. Cognitive Science, 47(6), Article e13308. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13308

Spiliopoulos, L., & Hertwig, R. (2023). Variance, skewness and multiple outcomes in described and experienced prospects: Can one descriptive model capture it all? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(4), 1188–1222. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001323

Wegwarth, O., Mansmann, U., Zepp, F., Lühmann, D., Hertwig, R., & Scherer, M. (2023). Vaccination intention following receipt of vaccine information through interactive simulation vs text among COVID-19 vaccine-hesitant adults during the Omicron wave in Germany. JAMA Network Open, 6(2), Article e2256208. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.56208

Woike, J. K., Hertwig, R., & Gigerenzer, G. (2023). Heterogeneity of rules in Bayesian reasoning: A toolbox analysis. Cognitive Psychology, 143, Article 101564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2023.101564

Appelhoff, S., Hertwig, R., & Spitzer, B. (2022). EEG-representational geometries and psychometric distortions in approximate numerical judgment. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(12), Article e1010747. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010747

Betsch, C., Schmid, P., Verger, P., Lewandowsky, S., Soveri, A., Hertwig, R., Fasce, A., Holford, D., De Raeve, P., Gagneur, A., Vuolanto, P., Correia, T., Tavoschi, L., Declich, S., Marceca, M., Linos, A., Karnaki, P., Karlsson, L., & Garrison, A. (2022). A call for immediate action to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake to prepare for the third pandemic winter. Nature Communications, 13, Article 7511. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34995-y

Fleischhut, N., Artinger, F. M., Olschewski, S., & Hertwig, R. (2022). Not all uncertainty is treated equally: Information search under social and nonsocial uncertainty. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 35(2), Article e2250. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2250

Hertwig, R., & Ellerbrock, D. (2022). Why people choose deliberate ignorance in times of societal transformation. Cognition, 229, Article 105247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105247

Hertwig, R., Leuker, C., Pachur, T., Spiliopoulos, L., & Pleskac, T. J. (2022). Studies in ecological rationality. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14(3), 467–491. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12567

Hertwig, R., & Mazar, N. (2022). Toward a taxonomy and review of honesty interventions. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47, Article 101410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101410