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Ralph Hertwig (born 4 November 1963, in Heilbronn, West Germany) is a German psychologist whose work focuses on the psychology of human judgment and decision making. Hertwig is Director of the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany.
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.
Akademischer Steckbrief. 2017. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis. seit 2016. Honorarprofessor, Freie Universität Berlin. seit 2013. Honorarprofessor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. seit 2012. Direktor, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin.
Articles 1–20. Max Planck Institute for Human Development - Cited by 34,721 - Decision Making - Heuristics - Bounded Rationality - Decisions from Experience - Risk Preference.
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.
Hertwig, R. (2023). The real cause of our complicity: The preoccupation with human weakness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, Article e161. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23000936
Director, Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Profile Articles Activity. Ralph is a cognitive psychologist and behavioral decision scientists. He is the...