Researcher Portfolio

 
   

Pleskac, Timothy J.

Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Max Planck Society, External Organizations  

 

Researcher Profile

 
Position: Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Max Planck Society
Position: External Organizations
Researcher ID: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/persons/resource/persons141543

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Publications

 
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 : Tump, A. N., Pleskac, T. J., Romanczuk, P., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2022). How the cognitive mechanisms underlying fast choices influence information spread and response bias amplification in groups. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati, & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 658-664). UC Merced. [PubMan] : Wu, C. M., Schulz, E., Pleskac, T. J., & Speekenbrink, M. (2022). Time pressure changes how people explore and respond to uncertainty. Scientific Reports, 12: 4122. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-07901-1. [PubMan] : Hertwig, R., Leuker, C., Pachur, T., Spiliopoulos, L., & Pleskac, T. J. (2022). Studies in ecological rationality. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14(3), 467-491. doi:10.1111/tops.12567. [PubMan] : Pleskac, T. J., Conradt, L., Leuker, C., & Hertwig, R. (2021). The ecology of competition: A theory of risk-reward environments in adaptive decision making. Psychological Review, 128(2), 315-335. doi:10.1037/rev0000261. [PubMan] : Albrecht, R., Hoffmann, J. A., Pleskac, T. J., Rieskamp, J., & Helversen, B. v. (2020). Competitive retrieval strategy causes multimodal response distributions in multiple-cue judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(6), 1064-1090. doi:10.1037/xlm0000772. [PubMan] : Leuker, C., Samartzidis, L., Hertwig, R., & Pleskac, T. J. (2020). When money talks: Judging risk and coercion in high-paying clinical trials. PLoS ONE, 15(1): e0227898. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0227898. [PubMan] : Tump, A. N., Pleskac, T. J., & Kurvers, R. H. J. M. (2020). Wise or mad crowds? The cognitive mechanisms underlying information cascades. Science Advances, 6(29): eabb0266. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abb0266. [PubMan] : Litvinova, A., Herzog, S. M., Kall, A. A., Pleskac, T. J., & Hertwig, R. (2020). How the "wisdom of the inner crowd" can boost accuracy of confidence judgments. Decision, 7(3), 183-211. doi:10.1037/dec0000119. [PubMan] : Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., & Pachur, T. (2019). Preface. In Taming uncertainty (pp. XI-XIII). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PubMan] : Dai, J., Pachur, T., Pleskac, T. J., & Hertwig, R. (2019). What the future holds and when: A description-experience gap in intertemporal choice. Psychological Science, 30(8), 1218-1233. doi:10.1177/0956797619858969. [PubMan] : Pleskac, T. J., Hertwig, R., Leuker, C., & Conradt, L. (2019). Using risk-reward structures to reckon with uncertainty. In Taming uncertainty (pp. 51-70). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PubMan] : Leuker, C., Pachur, T., Hertwig, R., & Pleskac, T. J. (2019). Do people exploit risk-reward structures to simplify information processing in risky choice? Journal of the Economic Science Association, 5(1), 76-94. doi:10.1007/s40881-019-00068-y. [PubMan] : Kvam, P. D., Hintze, A., Pleskac, T. J., & Pietraszewski, D. (2019). Computational evolution and ecologically rational decision making. In Taming uncertainty (pp. 285-304). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PubMan] : Schürmann, O., Frey, R., & Pleskac, T. J. (2019). Mapping risk perceptions in dynamic risk-taking environments. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 32(1), 94-105. doi:10.1002/bdm.2098. [PubMan] : Pleskac, T. J., Yu, S., Hopwood, C., & Liu, T. (2019). Mechanisms of deliberation during preferential choice: Perspectives from computational modeling and individual differences. Decision, 6(1), 77-107. doi:10.1037/dec0000092. [PubMan] : Kozyreva, A., Pleskac, T. J., Pachur, T., & Hertwig, R. (2019). Interpreting uncertainty: A brief history of not knowing. In Taming uncertainty (pp. 343-362). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PubMan] : Bhatia, S., & Pleskac, T. J. (2019). Preference accumulation as a process model of desirability ratings. Cognitive Psychology, 109, 47-67. doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2018.12.003. [PubMan] : Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., Pachur, T., & the Center for Adaptive Rationality (2019). Taming uncertainty. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PubMan] : Wu, C. M., Schulz, E., Gerbaulet, K., Pleskac, T. J., & Speekenbrink, M. (2019). Under pressure: The influence of time limits on human exploration. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1219-1225). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society. [PubMan] : Pothos, E. M., Busemeyer, J. R., Pleskac, T. J., Yearsley, J. M., Tenenbaum, J. B., Goodman, N. D., Tessler, M. H., Griffiths, T. L., Lieder, F., Hertwig, R., Pachur, T., Leuker, C., & Shiffrin, R. M. (2019). Extending rationality. In A. K. Goel, C. M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 39-40). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society. [PubMan] : Hertwig, R., Pleskac, T. J., & Pachur, T. (2019). Reckoning with uncertainty: Our program of research. In Taming uncertainty (pp. 3-25). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PubMan] : Dai, J., Pachur, T., Pleskac, T. J., & Hertwig, R. (2019). Tomorrow never knows: Why and how uncertainty matters in intertemporal choice. In Taming uncertainty (pp. 175-189). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PubMan] : Wulff, D. U., Markant, D., Pleskac, T. J., & Hertwig, R. (2019). Adaptive exploration: What you see is up to you. In Taming uncertainty (pp. 131-152). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [PubMan] : Leuker, C., Pachur, T., Hertwig, R., & Pleskac, T. J. (2019). Too good to be true? Psychological responses to uncomming options in risk-reward environments. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 32(3), 346-358. doi:10.1002/bdm.2116. [PubMan] : Dai, J., Pleskac, T. J., & Pachur, T. (2018). Dynamic cognitive models of intertemporal choice. Cognitive Psychology, 104, 29-56. doi:10.1016/j.cogpsych.2018.03.001. [PubMan]