Thorsten Pachur

LIFE Faculty & Alumnus

MPI for Human Development, Berlin

Psychology

External Fellow from 2002 to 2005, MPI for Human Development, Berlin

Dr. phil.

Dissertation completed in February 2006

Ecological Rationality: Do Samples in Memory Reflect the World? Full text

(Advisors: Ralph Hertwig, Jörg Rieskamp, & Gerd Gigerenzer)

Selected Publications

Pachur, T., Schulte-Mecklenbeck, M., Murphy, R. O., & Hertwig, R. (2018). Prospect theory reflects selective allocation of attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(2), 147–169. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000406

Pachur, T., Mata, R., & Hertwig, R. (2017). Who dares, who errs? Disentangling cognitive and motivational roots of age differences in decisions under risk. Psychological Science, 28, 504–518. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616687729

Pachur, T., & Olsson, H. (2012). Type of learning task impacts performance and strategy selection in decision making. Cognitive Psychology, 65, 207–240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2012.03.003