Ralph Hertwig | Publications

Amazeen, M. A., Benevenuto, F., Brashier, N. M., Bond, R. M., Bozarth, L. C., Budak, C., Ecker, U. K. H., Fazio, L. K., Ferrara, E., Flanagin, A. J., Flammini, A., Freelon, D., Grinberg, N., Hertwig, R., Jamieson, K. H., Joseph, K., Jones, J. J., Garrett, R. K., Kreiss, D., McGregor, S., McNealy, J., Margolin, D., Marwick, A., Menczer, F., Metzger, M. J., Nah, S., Lewandowsky, S., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Ortellado, P., Pasquetto, I., Pennycook, G., Porter, E., Rand, D. G., Robertson, R., Swire-Thompson, B., Tripodi, F., Vosoughi, S., Vargo, C., Varol, O., Weeks, B. E., Wihbey, J., Wood, T. J., & Yang, K.-C. (2020). Tackling misinformation: What researchers could do with social media data. The Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, 1(8). https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-49

Arslan, R. C., Brümmer, M., Dohmen, T., Drewelies, J., Hertwig, R., & Wagner, G. G. (2020). How people know their risk preference. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 15365. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72077-5

Fleischhut, N., Herzog, S. M., & Hertwig, R. (2020). Weather literacy in times of climate change. Weather, Climate, and Society, 12(3), 435–452. https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-19-0043.1

Fleischhut, N., Herzog, S. M., & Hertwig, R. (2020). Public weather literacy in times of climate change [appeared in the Papers of Note section in the August 2020 printed version of BAMS]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(8), 667–668.

Frey Renggli, J., Eken, C., Siegrist, V., Nieves Ortega, R., Nickel, C., Rosin, C., Hertwig, R., & Bingisser, R. (2020). Usability of a web-based software tool for history taking in the emergency department. Acute Medicine, 19(3), 131–137.

Hertwig, R., Liebig, S., Lindenberger, U., & Wagner, G. G. (2020). Menschen überschätzen Risiko einer Covid-19-Erkrankung, berücksichtigen aber individuelle Risikofaktoren. DIW aktuell, 52.

Hertwig, R., & Ryall, M. D. (2020). Nudge versus boost: Agency dynamics under libertarian paternalism. The Economic Journal, 130(629), 1384–1415. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez054

Kozyreva, A., Lewandowsky, S., & Hertwig, R. (2020). Citizens versus the internet: Confronting digital challenges with cognitive tools. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 21(3), 103–156. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100620946707

Leuker, C., Samartzidis, L., Hertwig, R., & Pleskac, T. J. (2020). When money talks: Judging risk and coercion in high-paying clinical trials. PLoS ONE, 15(1), Article e0227898. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227898

Li, Y., Hills, T., & Hertwig, R. (2020). A brief history of risk. Cognition, 203, Article 104344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104344

Litvinova, A., Herzog, S. M., Kall, A. A., Pleskac, T. J., & Hertwig, R. (2020). How the "wisdom of the inner crowd" can boost accuracy of confidence judgments. Decision, 7(3), 183–211. https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000119

Lorenz-Spreen, P., Lewandowsky, S., Sunstein, C. R., & Hertwig, R. (2020). How behavioural sciences can promote truth, autonomy and democratic discourse online. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 1102–1109. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0889-7

Spiliopoulos, L., & Hertwig, R. (2020). A map of ecologically rational heuristics for uncertain strategic worlds. Psychological Review, 127(2), 245–280. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000171

Tisdall, L., Frey, R., Horn, A., Ostwald, D., Horvath, L., Pedroni, A., Rieskamp, J., Blankenburg, F., Hertwig, R., & Mata, R. (2020). Brain-behavior associations for risk taking depend on the measures used to capture individual differences. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14, Article 587152. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.587152

Wegwarth, O., Spies, C., Schulte, E., Meerpohl, J. J., Schmucker, C., Nury, E., Brockmann, D., Donner-Banzhoff, N., Wind, S., Goebel, E., Ludwig, W. D., & Hertwig, R. (2020). Experiencing the risk of overutilising opioids among patients with chronic non-cancer pain in ambulatory care (ERONA): The protocol of an exploratory, randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 10, Article e037642. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037642

Wegwarth, O., Wagner, G. G., Spies, C., & Hertwig, R. (2020). Assessment of German public attitudes toward health communications with varying degrees of scientific uncertainty regarding COVID-19. JAMA Network Open, 3(12), Article e2032335. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.32335

Zilker, V., Hertwig, R., & Pachur, T. (2020). Age differences in risk attitude are shaped by option complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(9), 1644–1683. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000741

Hertwig, R., & Engel, C. (Eds.). (2020). Deliberate ignorance: Choosing not to know. MIT Press.

Ellerbrock, D., & Hertwig, R. (2020). The complex dynamics of deliberate ignorance and the desire to know in times of transformation: The case of Germany. In R. Hertwig & C. Engel (Eds.), Deliberate ignorance: Choosing not to know (pp. 19–38). MIT Press.

Engel, C., & Hertwig, R. (2020). Deliberate ignorance: Present and future. In R. Hertwig & C. Engel (Eds.), Deliberate ignorance: Choosing not to know (pp. 317–332). MIT Press.