Dr. Hansjörg Neth

Research Scientist

Office: D 507
Tel.: +49 7531 88-2972
Fax: +49 7531 88-5288
h.neth@uni-konstanz.de

Research interests

  • adaptive behavior under risk vs. uncertainty
  • ecological rationality, rational task analysis
  • risk perception, communication and management
  • interactive problem solving, embodied and embedded cognition

Professional experience

2014–presentResearch scientist in Social Psychology and Decision Sciences,
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany
2013–2014Acting chair of General Psychology: Cognition, Emotion, Communication (previously Prof. Hans Spada),
Department of Psychology, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
2011–2013Researcher, Cognitive and Decision Sciences (Prof. Michael R. Waldmann),
Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
2008–presentResearcher, Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC, Prof. Gerd Gigerenzer),
Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB), Berlin, Germany
2007–2008Research assistant professor, Cognitive Science Department (Prof. Wayne D. Gray),
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA
2003–2007Post-doctoral researcher, Cognitive Science Department (Prof. Wayne D. Gray),
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA

Education

2000–2003Ph.D. in Psychology (Prof. Stephen J. Payne),
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
1998–1999Graduate student research collaborator (Prof. Phil N. Johnson-Laird),
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
1998Diplom (M.Sc. equiv.) in Psychology (Prof. Hans Spada),
Department of Psychology, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
1992–1998Studies in Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics,
Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Publications

Neth, H., Sims, C. R., & Gray, W. D. (2005).  Melioration despite more information: The role of feedback frequency in stable suboptimal performance.  In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 49, pp. 357–361).  Orlando, FL: Sage.

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Neth, H. Gray, W. D. Myers, C. W. (2005). Memory models of visual search — searching in-the-head vs. in-the-world? [Abstract].  Journal of Vision, 5(8):417, 417a,

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Myers, C. W., Neth, H., Schoelles, M. J., & Gray, W. D. (2004).  The simBorg approach to modeling a dynamic decision-making task.  In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Modeling (ICCM), CMU, Pittsburg, PA (pp. 372–373).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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Neth, H., Sims, C. R., Veksler, V. & Gray, W. D.  (2004).  You can’t play straight TRACS and win: Memory updates in a dynamic task environment.  In K. D. Forbus, D. Gentner & T. Regier (Eds.),  Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1017–1022). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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Neth, H., & Payne, S. J. (2002).  Thinking by Doing? Epistemic actions in the tower of Hanoi.  In W. D. Gray and C. D. Schunn (Eds.),  Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 691–696).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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Neth, H., & Payne, S. J. (2001). Addition as interactive problem solving. In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 698–703). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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Neth, H., & Beller, S. (1999).  How knowledge interferes with reasoning: Suppression effects by content and context.  In M. Hahn, & S. C. Stoness (Eds.),  Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 468–473).  Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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Neth, H., & Johnson-Laird, P. N. (1999).  The search for counterexamples in human reasoning.  In M. Hahn, & S. C. Stoness (Eds.),  Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 806). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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