Research Focus

Judgment and decision making under uncertainty, affective and deliberative information processing in outcome evaluation and probability perception, and the role of emotions in charitable behavior. Other interests include the relationship between attention and emotion, the perception and function of moral values, and neural economics as it relates to dual information processes in decision making.

Academic Career

• 1996-1997: Studied Law at the University of Göttingen, Germany
• 1997-2001: Studied Psychology at Santa Monica College and University of California, Los Angeles, US
• 2000-2001: Research assistant (Prof. Dr. Bjork & Prof. Dr. Collins), UCLA
• 2001: Bachelor of Arts Degree, UCLA, with Specialization in Business Administration, Departmental and College Honors, summa cum laude
• 2002-2008: Studied Psychology at the University of Oregon / Decision Research, Eugene, OR
• 2002-2007: Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon
• 2003: Masters of Science Degree, University of Oregon (Prof. Dr. Slovic)
• 2003-2007: Research Associate, Decision Research, Eugene, OR
• 2007-2012: Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
• 2008: Dr. Phil. Degree; Dissertation “Two Routes to the Perception of Need: The Role of Affective vs. Deliberative Information Processing in Prosocial Behavior”, (Prof. Dr. Slovic), University of Oregon

Publications

Fiedler S., Glöckner A., Dickert S., Nicklisch A., Social Value Orientation and information search in social dilemmas: An eye-tracking analysis, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, In Press.

Ashby N. J. S., Dickert S., Glöckner A., Focusing on what you own: Biased information uptake due to ownership, Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 254-267, 2012.

Dickert S., Herbig B., Glöckner A., Gansen C., Portack R., The More the Better? Effects of Training and Information Amount in Legal Judgments, Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 26, pp. 223-233, 2012. Preprint

Dickert S., Sagara N., Slovic P., Affective motivations to help others: A two-stage model of donation decisions, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 361-376, 2011.

Ashby N. J. S., Glöckner A., Dickert S., Conscious and unconscious thought in risky choice: Testing the capacity principle and the appropriate weighting principle of Unconscious Thought Theory: Frontiers in Psychology, 2:261, 2011. Link

Dickert S., Kleber J., Peters E., Slovic P., Numeracy as a precursor to pro-social behavior: The impact of presentation format on the cognitive mechanisms underlying donation decisions, Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 638-650, 2011.

Dickert S., Slovic P., Unstable Values in Lifesaving Decisions, Frontiers in Cognition, 2011.

Dickert S., Sagara N., Slovic P., Affective motivations to help others: A two-stage model of donation decisions, Experimental approaches to the study of charitable giving, Oppenheimer D. M., Olivola C. Y., (Eds.), New York, Psychology Press, pp. 161-178, 2010.

Dickert S., Slovic P., Attentional mechanisms in the generation of sympathy, The Feeling of Risk: New Perspectives on Risk Perception, Slovic P., (Ed.), London, Earthscan, pp. 37-50, 2010.

Dickert S., Measuring affect and emotions in decision making: The affective side of intuitive information processing, Tracing intuition: Recent methods in measuring intuitive and deliberative processes in decision making, Glöckner A., Witteman C. L. M., (Eds.), London, Psychology Press, pp. 179-198, 2010.

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