Marlene Hecht

LIFE Fellow from 2021 to 2026, MPI for Human Development

Dissertation submitted to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in January 2026

Social Sampling in the Modern World: The Role of Online Social Information, Time Pressure, and Developmental Differences

(Advisors: Christin Schulze, Thorsten Pachur, & Ralph Hertwig)

Selected Publications

Hecht, M., Schulze, C., & Pachur, T. (in press). Models of social sampling. In T. Reimer, L. van Swol, & A. Florack (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of communication and social cognition. Routledge/Taylor and Francis.

Ruggeri, K., Stock, F., Haslam, S. A., Capraro, V., Boggio, P., ...Kitayama, S., ... Hecht, M., ... Willer, R. (2024). A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19. Nature, 625, 134–147. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06840-9

Hecht, M., Pachur, T., & Schulze, C. (2022). Does social sampling differ between online and offline contacts? A computational modeling analysis. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c161487