Jörg Rieskamp

Head of Center for Economic Psychology

joerg.rieskamp@unibas.ch 

Research Profiles: ResearchGate, ResearcherID Web of Science, ORCID

Research Interests

• Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty
• Cognitive Modeling of Human Judgments and Decisions
• Sequential Sampling Models of Decision Making
• Adaptiveness of Human Behavior 

Current Projects

• Measuring risk preferences
  Testing and comparing different methods of eliciting people's risk preferences
• Context effects of decision making
  People often violate concerstones of economic theory, due to different context effects. In this project we develop and test cognitive models to explain these violations.
• Sequential Sampling Models of Decision Making
  What are the cognitive, motivational and social capabilities that have a major impact on people's investment decisions.   

Selected Publications 

• Mohr, P. N. C., Heekeren, H. R., & Rieskamp, J. (2017). Attraction Effect in Risky Choice Can Be Explained by Subjective Distance Between Choice Alternatives. Scientific Reports, 7.
• Gluth, S., Hotaling, J. M., & Rieskamp, J. (2017). The Attraction Effect Modulates Reward Prediction Errors and Intertemporal Choices. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(2), 371-382.
• Berkowitsch, N. A. J., Scheibehenne, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2014). Rigorously Testing Multialternative Decision Field Theory Against Random Utility Models. Journal of Experimental Psychology-General, 143(3), 1331-1348.
• Hoffmann, J. A., von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2014). Pillars of Judgment: How Memory Abilities Affect Performance in Rule-Based and Exemplar-Based Judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology-General, 143(6), 2242-2261.
• Scheibehenne, B., Rieskamp, J., & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2013). Testing Adaptive Toolbox Models: A Bayesian Hierarchical Approach. Psychological Review, 120(1), 39-64.
• Galesic, M., Olsson, H., & Rieskamp, J. (2012). Social Sampling Explains Apparent Biases in Judgments of Social Environments. Psychological Science, 23(12), 1515-1523. doi:10.1177/0956797612445313 

Work History

• 2008-present:          Professor for Economic Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Basel
• 2002-2008:          Research scientist, Max-Planck-Institut for Human Development, Berlin 
• 2001-2002:          Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, Indiana University
• 1998-2001:         Ph.D. Candidate, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin
• CV  

Teaching Skills

• Lecture: Introduction to Economic Psychology 
• Lecture: Risk and Risk Communication 
• Current Courses