Thorsten Pachur - Publications

Dai, J., Pachur, T., Pleskac, T. J., & Hertwig, R. (2019). What the future holds and when: A description-experience gap in intertemporal choice. Psychological Science, 30(8), 1218–1233. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619858969

Fechner, H. B., Pachur, T., & Schooler, L. J. (2019). How does aging impact decision making? The contribution of cognitive decline and strategic compensation revealed in a cognitive architecture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(9), 1634–1663. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000661

Groß, J., & Pachur, T. (2019). Age differences in hindsight bias: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 34(2), 294–310. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000329

Lejarraga, T., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Pachur, T., & Hertwig, R. (2019). The attention-aversion gap: How allocation of attention relates to loss aversion. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(5), 457–469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2019.05.008

Leuker, C., Pachur, T., Hertwig, R., & Pleskac, T. J. (2019). Too good to be true? Psychological responses to uncomming options in risk-reward environments. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 32(3), 346–358. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2116

Leuker, C., Pachur, T., Hertwig, R., & Pleskac, T. J. (2019). Do people exploit risk-reward structures to simplify information processing in risky choice? Journal of the Economic Science Association, 5(1), 76–94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40881-019-00068-y

Popovic, N. F., Pachur, T., & Gaissmaier, W. (2019). The gap between medical and monetary choices under risk persists in decisions for others. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 32(4), 388–402. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2121

Trippas, D., & Pachur, T. (2019). Nothing compares: Unraveling learning task effects in judgment and categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(12), 2239–2266. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000696

Vanunu, Y., Pachur, T., & Usher, M. (2019). Constructing preference from sequential samples: The impact of evaluation format on risk attitudes. Decision, 6(3), 223–236. https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000098

Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., Pachur, T., & the Center for Adaptive Rationality. (2019). Taming uncertainty. MIT Press.

Dai, J., Pachur, T., Pleskac, T. J., & Hertwig, R. (2019). Tomorrow never knows: Why and how uncertainty matters in intertemporal choice. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. 175–189). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0014

Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., & Pachur, T. (2019). Preface. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. XI-XIII). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0001

Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., & Pachur, T. (2019). Reckoning with uncertainty: Our program of research. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. 3–25). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0004

Hertwig, R., Woike, J. K., Pachur, T., & Brandstätter, E. (2019). The robust beauty of heuristics in choice under uncertainty. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. 29–50). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0006

Kozyreva, A., Pleskac, T. J., Pachur, T., & Hertwig, R. (2019). Interpreting uncertainty: A brief history of not knowing. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. 343–362). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0026

Pachur, T. (2019). Alte Angsthasen? Wie sich Risikoentscheidungen über die Lebensspanne verändern. In A. Beniermann & M. C. Bauer (Eds.), Nerven kitzeln: Wie Angst unsere Gedanken, Einstellungen und Entscheidungen prägt (pp. 73–94). Springer.

Pachur, T., & Hertwig, R. (2019). The weight of uncertain events. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. 153–174). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0013

Pachur, T., & Trippas, D. (2019). Ways to learn from experience. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. 207–222). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0016

Schulze, C., & Pachur, T. (2019). Going round in circles: How social structures guide and limit search. In R. Hertwig, T. J. Pleskac, T. Pachur, & the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Taming uncertainty (pp. 71–88). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11114.003.0008

Mohnert, F., Pachur, T., & Lieder, F. (2019). What's in the adaptive toolbox and how do people choose from it? Rational models of strategy selection in risky choice. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2378–2384). Cognitive Science Society.