Office: D 506
Tel.: +49 7531 88-3375
nico.gradwohl@uni-konstanz.de

Research interests

  •    social learning and collective behavior
  •    consensus formation in social networks
  •    decision making under risk and uncertainty
  •    ecological rationality and adaptivity
  •    misperceptions of randomness, pattern detection and superstitious beliefs

Education

2017 – 2020Ph.D. StudentGraduate School of Decision Sciences,
University of Konstanz, Germany
2016 – 2017M.Sc. in Psychology,
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany
2012 – 2016B.Sc. Studies in Psychology,
University of Konstanz, Germany

Professional experience

2015 – presentPostdoctoral researcherCentre for The Advanced study of Collective Behaviour,
University of Konstanz, Germany
2015 – 2017Intern and research assistant, Social Psychology and Decision Sciences (Prof. Wolfgang Gaissmaier),
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany
2014 – 2017Instructor for seminars in voluntary service, German Red Cross

Scholarships

2016 – 2019Ph.D. Scholarship of the Graduate School of Decision Sciences,
funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments

Publications

Neth, H., Gaisbauer, F., Gradwohl, N., & Gaissmaier, W. (2025).  riskyr: Rendering Risk Literacy more Transparent.
Social Psychology and Decision Sciences, University of Konstanz, Germany.
Computer software (R package version 0.5.0, Sep 15, 2025).
Retrieved from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=riskyr.
doi 10.32614/CRAN.package.riskyr

GRADWOHL, Nico, Hansjörg NETH, Helge GIESE, Wolfgang GAISSMAIER, 2024. Explicit discrimination and ingroup favoritism, but no implicit biases in hypothetical triage decisions during COVID-19. In: Scientific Reports. Springer. 2024, 14, 1213. eISSN 2045-2322. Available under: doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-50385-w

Neth, H., & Gradwohl, N., (2024). unikn: Graphical elements of the University of Konstanz's corporate design. Social Psychology and Decision Sciences, University of Konstanz, Germany. Computer software (R package version 1.0.0, April 16, 2024). 
Retrieved from <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=unikn>. 
doi <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7096191

GIESE, Helga, Felix GAISBAUER, Nico GRADWOHL, Ariana STRANDBURG-PESHKIN, 2023. The role of position in consensus dynamics of polarizable networks. In: Scientific Reports. Springer Nature. 2023, 13, 3972. eISSN 2045-2322. Available under: doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-30613-z

Neth, H., Gradwohl, N., Streeb, D., Keim, D.A., & Gaissmaier, W. (2021).  Perspectives on the 2x2 matrix: Solving semantically distinct problems based on a shared structure of binary contingencies.  Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 567817.  doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.567817