Ralph Hertwig
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Recent Articles
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Claassen M, Mata J, Hertwig R
Appetite
. 2025 Feb;
209:107928.
PMID: 40015459
Humans have a fascination with quantifying behaviors. While numbers can provide intriguing insights, they can also distort public perceptions and misguide policy design. This article deconstructs the popular belief that...
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Haux L, Engelmann J, Herrmann E, Hertwig R
Nat Commun
. 2025 Feb;
16(1):1807.
PMID: 39979260
Exploration is an important strategy for reducing the uncertainty that pervades daily life. Yet the evolutionary roots of adaptive exploration are poorly understood. We harness and adapt the human decisions-from-experience...
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Hechtlinger S, Schulze C, Leuker C, Hertwig R
Am Psychol
. 2024 Nov;
PMID: 39541520
Research on judgment and decision making typically studies "small worlds"-highly simplified and stylized tasks such as monetary gambles-among homogenous populations rather than big real-life decisions made by people around the...
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Sultan M, Tump A, Ehmann N, Lorenz-Spreen P, Hertwig R, Gollwitzer A, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2024 Nov;
121(47):e2409329121.
PMID: 39531500
Nearly five billion people use and receive news through social media and there is widespread concern about the negative consequences of misinformation on social media (e.g., election interference, vaccine hesitancy)....
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Zickfeld J, Scigala K, Elbaek C, Michael J, Tonnesen M, Levy G, et al.
Nat Hum Behav
. 2024 Oct;
9(1):169-187.
PMID: 39433937
Dishonest behaviours such as tax evasion impose significant societal costs. Ex ante honesty oaths-commitments to honesty before action-have been proposed as interventions to counteract dishonest behaviour, but the heterogeneity in...
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Herzog S, Hertwig R
Annu Rev Psychol
. 2024 Oct;
76(1):851-881.
PMID: 39413154
Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (e.g., that it...
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Burton J, Lopez-Lopez E, Hechtlinger S, Rahwan Z, Aeschbach S, Bakker M, et al.
Nat Hum Behav
. 2024 Sep;
8(9):1643-1655.
PMID: 39304760
Collective intelligence underpins the success of groups, organizations, markets and societies. Through distributed cognition and coordination, collectives can achieve outcomes that exceed the capabilities of individuals-even experts-resulting in improved accuracy...
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Fulawka K, Hertwig R, Pachur T
NPJ Vaccines
. 2024 Sep;
9(1):167.
PMID: 39271718
Vaccine hesitancy was a major challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. A common but sometimes ineffective intervention to reduce vaccine hesitancy involves providing information on vaccine effectiveness, side effects, and related...
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Offer K, Rahwan Z, Hertwig R
Commun Psychol
. 2024 Sep;
1(1):38.
PMID: 39242959
No abstract available.
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Spiliopoulos L, Hertwig R
Front Psychol
. 2024 Aug;
15:1438581.
PMID: 39165757
Models of heuristics are often predicated on the desideratum that they should possess no free parameters. As a result, heuristic implementations are usually deterministic and do not allow for any...