Thorsten Pachur - Publications

Frank, C. C., & Pachur, T. (2025). The affect gap in risky choice is similar for younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 40(5), 575–582. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000889

Hof, L., Zilker, V., & Pachur, T. (in press). How sampling strategies shape experience-based risky choice. Cognitive Psychology.

Kreis, B. K., Groß, J., & Pachur, T. (2025). Real-world estimation taps into basic numeric abilities. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32, 1217–1230. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02575-4

Kreis, B. K., Hermann, A., Pachur, T., & Groß, J. (in press). Hindsight bias through knowledge updating: A conceptual replication of Groß et al. (2023). Collabra: Psychology.

Lipman, S. A., & Pachur, T. (2025). Attentional processes underlying health state valuation with time trade-off and standard gamble tasks. Journal of Health Economics, 102, Article 103026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.103026

Philips, R., Pachur, T., Vögele, C., & Brevers, D. (2025). Does time pressure alter the affect gap in risky choice? Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 38(3), Article e70028. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.70028

Tiede, K. E., Gaissmaier, W., & Pachur, T. (2025). Is there a description-experience gap in choices between a described and an experienced option? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 51(4), 552–574. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001417

Waters, E. A., Pachur, T., Pogge, G., Hunleth, J., Webster, G. D., Fedele, D. A., & Shepperd, J. A. (2025). Managing children’s asthma: What role do caregivers’ mental representations of trigger and symptom management behaviors play? Psychology & Health, 40(10), 1612–1632. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2347657

Waters, E. A., Pachur, T., Pogge, G., Hunleth, J., Webster, G. D., Fedele, D. A., & Shepperd, J. A. (2025). How are mental representations of asthma triggers and symptoms related to interpersonal risk perceptions? A psychometric investigation of caregivers of children with asthma. Psychology & Health, 40(4), 571–593. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2023.2244522

Zenkri, O., Bolenz, F., Pachur, T., & Brock, O. (2025). Human exploration in complex problem-solving tasks: More effortful interaction leads to higher efficiency. Adaptive Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10597123251364738

Bolenz, F., & Pachur, T. (2024). Older adults select different but not simpler strategies than younger adults in risky choice. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(6), Article e1012204. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012204

Clarmann von Clarenau, V., Appelhoff, S., Pachur, T., & Spitzer, B. (2024). Over- and underweighting of extreme values in decisions from sequential samples. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(3), 814–826. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001530

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

Pachur, T. (2024). The perception of dramatic risks: Biased media, but unbiased minds. Cognition, 246, Article 105736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105736

Groß, J., Kreis, B. K., Blank, H., & Pachur, T. (2023). Knowledge updating in real-world estimation: Connecting hindsight bias and seeding effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(11), 3167–3188. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001452

Waters, E. A., Pachur, T., Pogge, G., Hunleth, J., Webster, G. D., & Shepperd, J. A. (2023). Linking cognitive and affective heuristic cues to interpersonal risk perceptions and behavior. Risk Analysis, 43(12), 2610–2630. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.14101

Zilker, V., & Pachur, T. (2023). Attribute attention and option attention in risky choice. Cognition, 236, Article 105441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105441

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

Krefeld-Schwalb, A., Pachur, T., & Scheibehenne, B. (2022). Structural parameter interdependencies in computational models of cognition. Psychological Review, 129(2), 313–339. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000285

Pachur, T. (2022). Strategy selection in decisions from givens: Deciding at a glance? Cognitive Psychology, 136, Article 101483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101483