Researcher Portfolio
Pachur, Thorsten
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Max Planck Society, Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Max Planck Society, External Organizations
Researcher Profile
Position: Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Max Planck Society
Position: Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Max Planck Society
Position: External Organizations
Additional IDs: ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6391-4107
Researcher ID: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/persons/resource/persons139701
Publications
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: Pachur, T., & Zilker, V. (in press). Psychological theories of decision making under risk. In G. Pogrebna, & T. T. Hills (Eds. ), The Cambridge handbook of behavioral data science. London: Cambridge University Press. [PubMan] : Hecht, M., Schulze, C., & Pachur, T. (in press). Models of social sampling. In T. Reimer, L. van Swol, & A. Florack (Eds. ), The Routledge handbook of communication and social cognition. London: Routledge. [PubMan] : Frank, C. C., & Pachur, T. (in press). The affect gap in risky choice is similar for younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging. [PubMan] : Waters, E. A., Pachur, T., Pogge, G., Hunleth, J., Webster, G. D., Fedele, D. A., & Shepperd, J. A. (2025). How are mental representations of asthma triggers and symptoms related to interpersonal risk perceptions? A psychometric investigation of caregivers of children with asthma. Psychology & Health, 40(4), 571-593. doi:10.1080/08870446.2023.2244522. [PubMan] : Zenkri, O., Bolenz, F., Pachur, T., & Brock, O. (2025). Extracting principles of exploration strategies with a complex ecological task. In O. Brock, & J. Krichmar (Eds. ), From animals to animats 17: 17th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2024, Irvine, CA, USA, September 9–12, 2024. Proceedings (pp. 289-300). Cham: Springer. [PubMan] : Tiede, K. E., Gaissmaier, W., & Pachur, T. (2024). Is there a description-experience gap in choices between a described and an experienced option? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. doi:10.1037/xlm0001417. [PubMan] : Fuławka, K., & Pachur, T. (2024). Beyond lotteries: An affect-based computational framework for modeling risky choices with nonmonetary outcomes. PsyArXiv, November 28, 2024. [PubMan] : Kreis, B. K., Groß, J., & Pachur, T. (2024). Real-world estimation taps into basic numeric abilities. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi:10.3758/s13423-024-02575-4. [PubMan] : Fuławka, K., Hertwig, R., & Pachur, T. (2024). COVID-19 vaccine refusal is driven by deliberate ignorance and cognitive distortions. npj Vaccines, 9: 167. doi:10.1038/s41541-024-00951-8. [PubMan] : Bolenz, F., & Pachur, T. (2024). Older adults select different but not simpler strategies than younger adults in risky choice. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(6): e1012204. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012204. [PubMan] : Waters, E. A., Pachur, T., Pogge, G., Hunleth, J., Webster, G. D., Fedele, D. A., & Shepperd, J. A. (2024). Managing children’s asthma: What role do caregivers’ mental representations of trigger and symptom management behaviors play? Psychology & Health. doi:10.1080/08870446.2024.2347657. [PubMan] : Clarmann von Clarenau, V., Appelhoff, S., Pachur, T., & Spitzer, B. (2024). Over- and underweighting of extreme values in decisions from sequential samples. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(3), 814-826. doi:10.1037/xge0001530. [PubMan] : Pachur, T. (2024). The perception of dramatic risks: Biased media, but unbiased minds. Cognition, 246: 105736. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105736. [PubMan] : Waters, E. A., Pachur, T., Pogge, G., Hunleth, J., Webster, G. D., & Shepperd, J. A. (2023). Linking cognitive and affective heuristic cues to interpersonal risk perceptions and behavior. Risk Analysis, 43(12), 2610-2630. doi:10.1111/risa.14101. [PubMan] : Groß, J., Kreis, B. K., Blank, H., & Pachur, T. (2023). Knowledge updating in real-world estimation: Connecting hindsight bias and seeding effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(11), 3167-3188. doi:10.1037/xge0001452. [PubMan] : Pachur, T., & Schulze, C. (2023). Heuristic social sampling. In K. Fiedler, P. Juslin, & J. Denrell (Eds. ), Sampling in judgment and decision making (pp. 359-384). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [PubMan] : Zilker, V., & Pachur, T. (2023). Attribute attention and option attention in risky choice. Cognition, 236: 105441. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105441. [PubMan] : Bolenz, F., & Pachur, T. (2022). Exploring the structure of predecisional information search in risky choice. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds. ), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2297-2302). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fx494f9. [PubMan] : Perkovic, S., Otterbring, T., Schärli, C., & Pachur, T. (2022). The perception of food products in adolescents, lay adults, and experts: A psychometric approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 28(3), 555-575. doi:10.1037/xap0000384. [PubMan] : Fuławka, K., & Pachur, T. (2022). An affective probability weighting function for risky choice with nonmonetary outcomes. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds. ), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1025-1032). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5bg7f816. [PubMan] : Zilker, V., & Pachur, T. (2022). Toward an attentional turn in research on risky choice. Frontiers in Psychology, 13: 953008. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.953008. [PubMan] : Pachur, T. (2022). Strategy selection in decisions from givens: Deciding at a glance? Cognitive Psychology, 136: 101483. doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101483. [PubMan] : Garrett, P. M., White, J. P., Luo, Y., Dennis, S., Geard, N., Little, D. R., Mitchell, L., Perfors, A., Tomko, M., Andrighetto, G., Guido, A., Kusumi, T., Hertwig, R., Herzog, S., Kozyreva, A., Lorenz-Spreen, P., Pachur, T., Hsieh, S., Lee, Y.-C., Yang, C.-T., Okan, Y., Andrade, E., Velay, L., Oberauer, K., Goldstone, R., Lewandowsky, S., & Kashima, Y. (2022). COVID-19, national culture, and privacy calculus: Factors predicting the cross-cultural acceptance and uptake of contact-tracing technologies. PsyArXiv, October 13, 2022. [PubMan] : Krefeld-Schwalb, A., Pachur, T., & Scheibehenne, B. (2022). Structural parameter interdependencies in computational models of cognition. Psychological Review, 129(2), 313-339. doi:10.1037/rev0000285. [PubMan] : Hecht, M., Pachur, T., & Schulze, C. (2022). Does social sampling differ between online and offline contacts? A computational modeling analysis. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds. ), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 319-325). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c161487. [PubMan]