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, Project 30.
Publications +
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
