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Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. 2005–2012. Full Professor for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the Department of Psychology, University of Basel. 2003. Habilitation in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin. 1995.
Ralph Hertwig. Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Verified email at mpib-berlin.mpg.de - Homepage.
Oct 28, 2013 · This question was actually put forth to a group of several hundred research participants in a new paper by Florence Ettlin and Ralph Hertwig. The authors were simply curious which direction...
Team. Ralph is the director of the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. His research interests lie in models of bounded and ecological rationality, decisions from experience, the psychology of risk, lifespan development of decision-making and evidence-based public policy (boosting).
Ralph Hertwig has made important contributions to answer the question of how people make decisions, if time is limited, information unreliable, and the future uncertain. The focal point of his work lies in the analysis of the boundedly rational strategies (“heuristics”) that people use to make decisions under such circumstances.
Ralph Hertwig studies human cognitive abilities, bringing together concepts and methods from psychology, neuroscience, economics, philosophy, biology, and mathematics. He investigates how biological cognitive strategies (heuristics) arise, perform, and vary under natural resource constraints.
May 22, 2016 · Ralph Hertwig and Christoph Engel View all authors and affiliations. Volume 11, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616635594. Contents. Get access. More. Abstract. Western history of thought abounds with claims that knowledge is valued and sought. Yet people often choose not to know.
