Office: E 225
Tel.: +49 7531 88-5478
Email: kevin.tiede@uni-konstanz.de
Twitter: @kevinetiede

Research Interests

  • Decision making under risk
  • Risk communication
  • Numeracy
  • Computational modeling
  • Process tracing

Professional Experience

2019 – 2020 Visiting Researcher, Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
2017 – 2018 Doctoral Researcher, Social Psychology and Decision Sciences, University of Konstanz
2016 – 2017 Visiting Scholar, Cognitive and Affective Influences in Decision Making Lab (Prof. Dr. Ellen Peters), Ohio State University, USA
2015 – 2017 Research Assistant, Cognitive Psychology Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau
2013 – 2015 Research Assistant, DFG Project “Motivated Biases in the Reception of Scientific Knowledge (II): Mechanisms and Consequences“, University of Koblenz-Landau

Education

since 2017 Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Decision Sciences, University of Konstanz
2014 – 2017 M.Sc. in Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau
2011 – 2014 B.Sc. in Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau

Scholarships

since 2019 PhD Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2015 – 2017 Study Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

Publications

TIEDE, Kevin Erik, Wolfgang GAISSMAIER, 2023. How Do People Process Different Representations of Statistical Information? : Insights into Cognitive Effort, Representational Inconsistencies, and Individual Differences. In: Medical Decision Making. Sage. 2023, 43(7-8), pp. 803-820. ISSN 0272-989X. eISSN 1552-681X. Available under: doi: 10.1177/0272989x231202505

GAISSMAIER, Wolfgang, Kevin Erik TIEDE, Rocio GARCIA-RETAMERO, 2023. The Lure of Beauty : People Select Representations of Statistical Information Largely Based on Attractiveness, Not Comprehensibility. In: Medical Decision Making (MDM). Sage. 2023, 43(7-8), pp. 774-788. ISSN 0272-989X. eISSN 1552-681X. Available under: doi: 10.1177/0272989x231201579

Tiede, K. E.*, Schultheis, S. K.*, & Meyer, B. (2021). Subgroup splits in diverse work teams: Subgroup perceptions but not demographic faultlines affect team identification and emotional exhaustion. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 595720. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.595720 *shared first authorship

Tiede, K. E., & Appel, M. (2020). Reviews, expectations, and the experience of stories. Media Psychology, 23, 365–390. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1602055

Tiede, K. E., Ripke, F., Degen, N., & Gaissmaier, W. (2020). When does the incremental risk format aid informed medical decisions? The role of learning, feedback, and number of treatment options. Medical Decision Making, 40, 212–221. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989X20904357

Peters, E., Fennema, M. G., & Tiede, K. E. (2019). The loss-bet paradox: Actuaries, accountants, and other numerate people rate numerically inferior gambles as superior. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 32, 15–29. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2085