Ralph Hertwig

27.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
301 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

Ralph Hertwig is a scholar working on General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralph Hertwig has authored 301 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in General Decision Sciences, 70 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 55 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ralph Hertwig's work include Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (134 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (40 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (35 papers). Ralph Hertwig is often cited by papers focused on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (134 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (40 papers) and Behavioral Health and Interventions (35 papers). Ralph Hertwig collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Ralph Hertwig's co-authors include Gerd Gigerenzer, Andreas Ortmann, Ido Erev, Thorsten Pachur, Rui Mata, Stefan M. Herzog, Till Grüne‐Yanoff, Ulrich Hoffrage, Elke U. Weber and Greg Barron and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Ralph Hertwig

292 papers receiving 15.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Decisions from Experience and the Effect of Rare Events in Risky Choice

2004 1.1k citations Ralph Hertwig et al. profile →
The description–experience gap in risky choice

2009 588 citations Ralph Hertwig et al. profile →
Nudging and Boosting: Steering or Empowering Good Decisions

2017 426 citations Ralph Hertwig et al. profile →
Risk preference shares the psychometric structure of major psychological traits

2017 325 citations Rui Mata, Ralph Hertwig et al. Science Advances profile →
Grandparental investment: Past, present, and future

2010 324 citations Ralph Hertwig et al. profile →
Citizens Versus the Internet: Confronting Digital Challenges With Cognitive Tools

2020 218 citations Stephan Lewandowsky, Ralph Hertwig et al. profile →
A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy

2022 137 citations Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Lisa Oswald et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →
Homo Ignorans

2016 137 citations Ralph Hertwig, Christoph Engel profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralph Hertwig

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The Tip of the Iceberg: How the Social Media Production-Consumption Gap Distorts Public Opinion for Citizens and Researchers 2025 ·Lisa Oswald, WILLIAM SCHULZ, Ralph Hertwig, David Lazer, Sebastian Stier	0
2	The psychology of life’s most important decisions. 2024 ·American Psychologist ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ralph Hertwig	2
3	Measuring Cognitive Abilities in the Wild: Validating a Population‐Scale Game‐Based Cognitive Assessment 2023 ·Cognitive Science ·(unknown), Carlos Mauricio Castaño Díaz, Qian Janice Wang, (unknown), Ali Amidi, (unknown), Carsten Bergenholtz, Morten H. Christiansen, Miroslav Gajdacz, Ralph Hertwig, Byurakn Ishkhanyan, Kim Klyver, Nicolai Ladegaard, Kim Mathiasen, Christine E. Parsons, Janet Rafner, Anders Ryom Villadsen, Mikkel Wallentin, (unknown), Jacob Sherson	7
4	Heterogeneity of rules in Bayesian reasoning: A toolbox analysis 2023 ·Cognitive Psychology ·Jan K. Woike, Ralph Hertwig, Gerd Gigerenzer	5
5	Control over sampling boosts numerical evidence processing in human decisions from experience 2022 ·Cerebral Cortex ·Stefan Appelhoff, Ralph Hertwig, Bernhard Spitzer	2
6	The transmission game: Testing behavioral interventions in a pandemic-like simulation 2022 ·Science Advances ·Jan K. Woike, Sebastian Hafenbrädl, Patricia Kanngießer, Ralph Hertwig	7
7	A call for immediate action to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake to prepare for the third pandemic winter 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Cornelia Betsch, Philipp Schmid, Pierre Verger, Stephan Lewandowsky, Anna Soveri, Ralph Hertwig, Angelo Fasce, Dawn Liu Holford, Paul De Raeve, Arnaud Gagneur, Pia Vuolanto, Tiago Correia, Lara Tavoschi, Silvia Declich, Maurizio Marceca, Athena Linos, Pania Karnaki, Linda C. Karlsson, (unknown)	17
8	Self-Reported Practices and Emotions in Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Noncancer Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study of German Physicians 2022 ·Journal of Clinical Medicine ·Erika Schulte, Frank Petzke, Claudia Spies, Claudia Denke, Michael Schäfer, Norbert Donner‐Banzhoff, Ralph Hertwig, Odette Wegwarth	2
9	A systematic review of worldwide causal and correlational evidence on digital media and democracy breakdown → 2022 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Lisa Oswald, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ralph Hertwig	137
10	Toward a taxonomy and review of honesty interventions 2022 ·Current Opinion in Psychology ·Ralph Hertwig, Nina Mažar	15
11	A Systematic Review of Worldwide Causal and Correlational Evidence on Digital Media and Democracy 2021 ·Bristol Research (University of Bristol) ·Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Lisa Oswald, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ralph Hertwig	22
12	Age differences in deliberate ignorance. 2021 ·Psychology and Aging ·Ralph Hertwig, Jan K. Woike, Jürgen Schupp	12
13	Does risk perception motivate preventive behavior during a pandemic? A longitudinal study in the United States and China. 2021 ·American Psychologist ·Ying Li, Shenghua Luan, (unknown), Junhui Wu, Wenqi Li, Ralph Hertwig	19
14	Deliberate ignorance: Choosing not to know 2020 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Ralph Hertwig, Christoph Engel	28
15	How to detect high-performing individuals and groups: Decision similarity predicts accuracy 2019 ·Science Advances ·Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers, Stefan M. Herzog, Ralph Hertwig, Jens Krause, Mehdi Moussaïd, Giuseppe Argenziano, Iris Zalaudek, Patricia A. Carney, Max Wolf	23
16	Blind haste: As light decreases, speeding increases 2018 ·PLoS ONE ·Emanuel de Bellis, Michael Schulte‐Mecklenbeck, (unknown), Andreas Herrmann, Ralph Hertwig	18
17	Three gaps and what they may mean for risk preference 2018 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Ralph Hertwig, Dirk U. Wulff, Rui Mata	70
18	Stability and change in risk-taking propensity across the adult life span. 2016 ·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ·Anika K. Josef, David Richter, Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin, Gert G. Wagner, Ralph Hertwig, Rui Mata	179
19	Modeling choice and search in decisions from experience: A sequential sampling approach 2015 ·Cognitive Science ·Douglas Markant, Timothy J. Pleskac, Adele Diederich, Thorsten Pachur, Ralph Hertwig	8
20	Deception in Experiments: Revisiting the Arguments in Its Defense 2008 ·Ethics & Behavior ·Ralph Hertwig, Andreas Ortmann	124

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