LIFE Seminar Summer 2026

Decision Making

Organizers: Ralph Hertwig, Ralf Kurvers, Dirk Wulff, MPIB

In this seminar, we cover several key subdomains of decision making, including heuristics, learning, collective decision making, digital decision making, and developmental decision making.

Readings can be found on the internal pages, please click the box on the bottom left. 

 

Heuristics:

The science of heuristics

Ralph Hertwig

April 23, 2026, 16:00–18:00

 

Developmental decision making:

Decision making, experience, and the environment during childhood to adolescence

Simon Ciranka

April 30, 2026, 16:00–18:00

 

Heuristics:

How people make life’s most important decisions: The psychology of transformative decision making

Shahar Hechtlinger

May 21, 2026, 16:00–18:00

 

Learning:

Two modes of learning and the description-experience gap

Dirk Wulff

May 28, 2026, 16:00–18:00

 

Collective decision making:

A cognitive computational approach to social and collective decision making

Ralf Kurvers

June 2, 2026 (Tuesday), 16:00–18:00

 

Collective decision making:

How decisions become action—or don’t: The situational bottleneck of behavior

Anne Nassauer

June 11, 2026, 16:00–18:00

 

Collective decision making:

Modeling the dynamics of social foraging decisions in the wild

Alex Schakowski

June 16, 2026 (Tuesday), 16:00–18:00

 

Digital decision making:

Boosting autonomy online: Cognitive and behavioural strategies for digital challenges

Anastasia Kozyreva

June 25, 2026, 16:00–18:00

 

Digital decision making:

Susceptibility to misinformation and broader debates in the field

Mubashir Sultan

June 30, 2026 (Tuesday), 10:00–12:00

 

Developmental decision making:

The origins of behavior under risk and uncertainty

Lou Haux (online)

July 9, 2026, 16:00–18:00

 

Learning:

How experimental methods shaped views on human competence and rationality

Tomás Lejarraga

July 16, 2026, 16:00–18:00