Falk Lieder

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Falk Lieder is a scholar working on General Decision Sciences, Cognitive Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Falk Lieder has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in General Decision Sciences, 21 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Falk Lieder's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (28 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (10 papers). Falk Lieder is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (28 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (14 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (10 papers). Falk Lieder collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Falk Lieder's co-authors include Thomas L. Griffiths, Noah D. Goodman, Amitai Shenhav, Sebastian Musslick, Jonathan D. Cohen, Matthew Botvinick, Wouter Kool, Jean Daunizeau, Klaas Ε. Stephan and Marta I. Garrido and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Review and Annual Review of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Falk Lieder

59 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort

2017 619 citations Amitai Shenhav, Sebastian Musslick et al. profile →
Resource-rational analysis: Understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources

2019 361 citations Falk Lieder, Thomas L. Griffiths Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Falk Lieder United States	20	1.1k	626	471	415	278	60	2.3k
Brandon M. Turner United States	27	1.3k 1.2×	637 1.0×	387 0.8×	405 1.0×	138 0.5×	77	2.4k
Timothy J. Pleskac United States	24	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.6×	273 0.6×	346 0.8×	149 0.5×	69	2.5k
Joachim Vandekerckhove United States	33	1.7k 1.4×	443 0.7×	402 0.9×	949 2.3×	259 0.9×	86	3.3k
Chris Donkin Australia	28	1.6k 1.4×	418 0.7×	327 0.7×	597 1.4×	292 1.1×	79	2.4k
Stefano Palminteri France	27	1.8k 1.6×	430 0.7×	171 0.4×	518 1.2×	248 0.9×	71	2.8k
Angela J. Yu United States	22	2.6k 2.3×	400 0.6×	276 0.6×	619 1.5×	229 0.8×	57	3.7k
A. Ross Otto Canada	28	1.5k 1.3×	518 0.8×	155 0.3×	713 1.7×	298 1.1×	69	2.6k
Wolf Vanpaemel Belgium	25	691 0.6×	205 0.3×	484 1.0×	701 1.7×	379 1.4×	68	2.6k
Simon J. Handley United Kingdom	34	1.0k 0.9×	1.4k 2.3×	949 2.0×	433 1.0×	948 3.4×	103	3.0k
Peter Juslin Sweden	28	1.1k 1.0×	1.5k 2.4×	572 1.2×	356 0.9×	623 2.2×	120	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Falk Lieder

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Fields of papers citing papers by Falk Lieder

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Falk Lieder

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Falk Lieder. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Falk Lieder based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Falk Lieder. Falk Lieder is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Maier, Maximilian, Vanessa Cheung, & Falk Lieder. (2025). Learning from outcomes shapes reliance on moral rules versus cost–benefit reasoning. Nature Human Behaviour. 10(2). 268–287.

Stephenson, Oliver L., et al.. (2024). Metachangemaking: An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on cultivating changemakers. Journal of Moral Education. 54(4). 684–709. 1 indexed citations

Wirzberger, Maria, et al.. (2024). Optimal feedback improves behavioral focus during self-regulated computer-based work. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 3124–3124. 1 indexed citations

Lieder, Falk, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the Effectiveness of InsightApp for Anxiety, Valued Action, and Psychological Resilience: Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Mental Health. 12. e57201–e57201. 1 indexed citations

Lieder, Falk, et al.. (2023). Gamification of Behavior Change: Mathematical Principle and Proof-of-Concept Study. JMIR Serious Games. 12. e43078–e43078. 7 indexed citations

Prentice, Mike, et al.. (2023). A Gamified Mobile App That Helps People Develop the Metacognitive Skills to Cope With Stressful Situations and Difficult Emotions: Formative Assessment of the InsightApp. JMIR Formative Research. 7. e44429–e44429. 2 indexed citations

Reichman, Daniel, Falk Lieder, David Bourgin, Nimrod Talmon, & Thomas L. Griffiths. (2023). The Computational Challenges of Means Selection Problems: Network Structure of Goal Systems Predicts Human Performance. Cognitive Science. 47(8). e13330–e13330. 1 indexed citations

Lieder, Falk, et al.. (2022). An interdisciplinary synthesis of research on understanding and promoting well‐doing. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 16(9). 2 indexed citations

Opheusden, Bas van, et al.. (2022). Boosting Human Decision-making with AI-Generated Decision Aids. Computational Brain & Behavior. 5(4). 467–490. 12 indexed citations

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Opheusden, Bas van, et al.. (2021). Encouraging far-sightedness with automatically generated descriptions of optimal planning strategies: Potentials and Limitations. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43). 1 indexed citations

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Lieder, Falk, et al.. (2021). Toward a formal theory of proactivity. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 21(3). 490–508. 8 indexed citations

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Krueger, Paul M., Falk Lieder, & Tom Griffiths. (2021). Enhancing metacognitive reinforcement learning using reward structures and feedback. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 6 indexed citations

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Lieder, Falk, et al.. (2021). Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task. Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. 21(3). 453–471. 20 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Thomas L., Frederick Callaway, Michael B. Chang, et al.. (2019). Doing more with less: meta-reasoning and meta-learning in humans and machines. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 29. 24–30. 58 indexed citations

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Lieder, Falk, et al.. (2019). Cognitive prostheses for goal achievement. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(10). 1096–1106. 21 indexed citations

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Lieder, Falk & Thomas L. Griffiths. (2019). Resource-rational analysis: Understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43. e1–e1. 361 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lieder, Falk, Jean Daunizeau, Marta I. Garrido, Karl Friston, & Klaas Ε. Stephan. (2013). Modelling Trial-by-Trial Changes in the Mismatch Negativity. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(2). e1002911–e1002911. 117 indexed citations

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Lieder, Falk, Klaas Ε. Stephan, Jean Daunizeau, Marta I. Garrido, & Karl Friston. (2013). A Neurocomputational Model of the Mismatch Negativity. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(11). e1003288–e1003288. 89 indexed citations

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Lieder, Falk, Klaas Ε. Stephan, Jean Daunizeau, Marta I. Garrido, & Karl Friston. (2013). Correction: A Neurocomputational Model of the Mismatch Negativity. PLoS Computational Biology. 9(12). 31 indexed citations

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Lieder, Falk, Thomas L. Griffiths, & Noah D. Goodman. (2012). Burn-in, bias, and the rationality of anchoring. Neural Information Processing Systems. 25. 2690–2798. 50 indexed citations

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