University of Basel

Faculty of
Psychology

Jörg Rieskamp

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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 

  • Albrecht, R., Jenny, M. A., Nilsson, H., & Rieskamp, J. (2021). The Similarity-Updating Model of Probability Judgment and Belief Revision. Psychological Review, 128(6), 1088-1111. doi:10.1037/rev0000299
  • Fontanesi, L., Gluth, S., Spektor, M. S., & Rieskamp, J. (2019). A reinforcement learning diffusion decision model for value-based decisions. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26(4), 1099-1121. doi:10.3758/s13423-018-1554-2
  • Mechera-Ostrovsky, T., Heinke, S., Andraszewicz, S., & Rieskamp, J. (2022). Cognitive abilities affect decision errors but not risk preferences: A meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 29(5), 1719-1750. doi:10.3758/s13423-021-02053-1
  • Olschewski, S., & Rieskamp, J. (2021). Distinguishing three effects of time pressure on risk taking: Choice consistency, risk preference, and strategy selection. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34(4), 541-554. doi:10.1002/bdm.2228
  • Spektor, M. S., Gluth, S., Fontanesi, L., & Rieskamp, J. (2019). How similarity between choice options affects decisions from experience: The accentuation-of-differences model. Psychological Review, 126(1), 52-88. doi:10.1037/rev0000122

Editorial Review Services 

  • European Research Council (ERC, 2022): Panel Member - Starting Grant
  • Psychological Review (since 2001-) Editorial board member
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition (2021-2024) Associate Editor

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

Teaching Skills

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

  

 

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