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Thorsten Pachur

Principal Investigator

Psychology

Technische Universität München

 

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Thorsten Pachur

Thorsten Pachur

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Thorsten Pachur is a psychologist. He studies the cognitive foundations of decision making. In particular, he is interested in understanding how the human mind, given informational and computational constraints, can master an uncertain world.

Projects

Thorsten Pachur is member of:

• Project 22: Ecologically rational strategy selection
• Project 30: Analyzing human physical reasoning and strategy exploration on physical puzzles
2756394 Pachur 1 apa 50 date desc year 19974 https://www.scienceofintelligence.de/wp-content/plugins/zotpress/
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Zenkri, O., Bolenz, F., Pachur, T., & Brock, O. (2024). A Complex Ecological Task for Extracting Principles of Exploration Strategies. Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), 289–300. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71533-4_22
Clarenau, V. C. von, Appelhoff, S., Pachur, T., & Spitzer, B. (2024). Over- and Underweighting of Extreme Values in Decisions From Sequential Samples. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001530
Bolenz, F., & Pachur, T. (2024). Older adults select different but not simpler strategies than younger adults in risky choice. PLoS Computational Biology, 20(6), e1012204. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012204
Zilker, V., & Pachur, T. (2023). Attribute attention and option attention in risky choice. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105441
Pachur, T. (2022). Strategy selection in decisions from givens: Deciding at a glance? Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101483
Bolenz, F., & Pachur, T. (2022). Exploring the structure of predecisional information search in risky choice. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2297–2302. https://escholarship.org/content/qt4fx494f9/qt4fx494f9.pdf

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