Research Focus

Basic Research: Decision making in individuals, groups and organizations; parallel constraint satisfaction models; automatic processes in decision making; intuition; connectionism; network modelling; public goods; prisoners dilemma; heuristics and biases

Applied Research: Human resource development; personnel assessment; behavioral economics; consumer decisions and consumer protection; empirical legal studies; legal intuition and expertise

Method developments: Multiple-Measure Maximum Likelihood strategy classification; eye-tracking and intuitive decision making; physiological arousal and intuitive decision making

Academic Career

• Since 2007: Head Max Planck Research Group Intuitive Experts (Associate Professor Position / W2)
• Since 2004: Business Consultant for Strategic Human Resource Management & eHR
• 004-2006: Lecturer and Research Fellow, Department of Social and Organisational Psychology, University of Erfurt, Germany (Dissertation in 2006)
• 2001-2004: Manager Strategic Executive Development, Deutsche Lufthansa AG
• 1995-2001: Studies in Psychology and Business Administration, University of Heidelberg and University of Oregon, Eugene, U.S. (MSc from University of Oregon 2000; Diploma from University of Heidelberg 2001)

Further Activities

• Associate Editor for Judgment and Decision Making since 03/2010
• Editorial Board Social Cognition (since 02/2011)
• Review Editor Frontiers in Cognitive Science (since 01/2011)
• Editor Special Issue on "Methodology in judgment and decision making research" for Judgment and Decision Making

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