Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier

Professor

Office D 512
Tel.: +49 7531 88-3024
Fax: +49 7531 88-5288
gaissmaier@uni-konstanz.de

Research interests

  • Judgment and decision making
  • Individual differences in decision making
  • Risk perception and communication
  • Memory-based decision making
  • Medical decision making
  • Ecological rationality
  • Models of heuristics

Professional experience

since 2014Full Professor of Social Psychology and Decision Sciences (W3), Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany
since 2014Adjunct Researcher, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
2008–2014Chief Research Scientist, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
2007Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
2003–2006Predoctoral Fellow, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Education

2013Habilitation in Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2007PhD in Psychology, Free University Berlin, Germany
2002Diploma in Psychology (equivalent to Master’s Degree), Free University Berlin, Germany

Honors and awards

2013Rising Star, Association for Psychological Science
2012Fellow, German Young Academy, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities & German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2009Dissertation prize (runner up), German Psychological Society, Section: General Psychology
2008Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievements, Max Planck Society
2006New Investigator Award, Brunswik Society

Publications

Gaissmaier, W. (2007). The mnemonic decision maker: How search in memory shapes decision making. Doctoral dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Gigerenzer, G., & Gaissmaier, W. (2006). Denken und Urteilen unter Unsicherheit: Kognitive Heuristiken [Thinking and deciding under uncertainty: Cognitive heuristics]. In J. Funke (Ed.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie: Vol. C, II, 8. Denken und Problemlösen (pp. 329-374). Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe.

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Gigerenzer, G., & Gaissmaier, W. (2006). Ironie des Terrors. Gehirn & Geist, 9, 14-16.

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Gaissmaier, W., Schooler, L. J., & Rieskamp, J. (2006). Simple predictions fueled by capacity limitations: When are they successful? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 966-982.

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Gaissmaier, W., & Gigerenzer, G. (2006). Wie funktioniert Intuition? [How does intuition work?]. In E. H. Witte (Ed.), Evolutionäre Sozialpsychologie und automatische Prozesse: Beiträge des 21. Hamburger Symposions zur Methodologie der Sozialpsychologie (pp. 31-49). Lengerich: Pabst.

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Gaissmaier, W., & Gigerenzer, G. (2006). Wie funktioniert Intuition? [How does intuition work?]. In E. H. Witte (Ed.), Evolutionäre Sozialpsychologie und automatische Prozesse: Beiträge des 21. Hamburger Symposions zur Methodologie der Sozialpsychologie (pp. 31-49). Lengerich: Pabst.

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Marewski, J. N., Gaissmaier, W., Dieckmann, A., Schooler, L. J., & Gigerenzer, G. (2005). Don’t vote against the recognition heuristic. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2524). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

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Gaissmaier, W., Schooler, L. J., & Gigerenzer, G. (2005). Receptive memory in judgment and decision making. In M.-L. Käsermann & A. Altorfer (Eds.), Über Lernen: Ein Gedankenaustausch (pp. 67–79). Bern: EditionSolo.

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