Dr. Sebastian Olschewski

Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Center for Economic Psychology

Research Fellow at Warwick Business School

sebastian.olschewski@unibas.ch

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Epistemic Uncertainty and Risk Taking: To what extent are people adapted to the cognitive limitations of information integration when taking risks.
Allocation of Effort: How people allocate their effort to make good decisions in the presence of opportunity costs.
Risky Choice and Complexity: How complexity affects decision strategies, choice consistency, and risk taking.
Uncertainty and Social Behavior: How learning and choosing under uncertainty unfolds in a social environment.
Understanding of Financial Risks: How personal experiences of investment returns affect financial decision making.

Olschewski, S., Spektor, M. S., Le Mens, G. (2024). Frequent winners explain apparent skewness preferences in experience-based decisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(12), e2317751121. Paper
Olschewski, S., & Scheibehenne, B. (2024). What’s in a sample? Epistemic uncertainty and metacognitive awareness in risk taking. Cognitive Psychology, 149, 101642. Paper
Olschewski, S., Luckman, A., Mason, A., Ludvig, E., & Konstantinidis, E. (2024). The future of decisions from experience: Connecting real-world decision problems to cognitive processes. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(1), 82-102. Paper
Olschewski, S., Dietsch, M., & Ludvig, E. A. (2019). Anti-social motives explain increased risk aversion for others in decisions from experience. Judgment and Decision Making, 14(1), 58. Paper
Olschewski, S., Rieskamp, J., & Scheibehenne, B. (2018). Taxing cognitive capacities reduces choice consistency rather than preference: A model-based test. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(4), 462. Paper

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Since 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Basel
Since 2021: Honorary Research Fellow, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
2020 - 2021: SNF Postdoc Mobility Fellowship at Warwick Business School, Warwick University
2018 - 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Basel
2014 - 2017: Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Psychology, University of Basel