Ralph Hertwig

Ralph Hertwig
Born (1963-11-04) 4 November 1963 (age 60)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Konstanz
AwardsGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
Decision making
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Human Development (Director since 2012)
Thesis Why Dr Gould's Homunculus doesn't think like Dr Gould: The "conjunction fallacy" reconsidered  (1995)
Websitewww.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/staff/ralph-hertwig

Ralph Hertwig (born 4 November 1963, in Heilbronn, West Germany) is a German psychologist whose work focuses on the psychology of human judgment and decision making. Hertwig is Director of the Center for Adaptive Rationality[1] at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany. He grew up with his brothers Steffen Hertwig and Michael Hertwig (parents Walter and Inge Hertwig) in Talheim, Heilbronn.

  1. ^ "Center for Adaptive Rationality". www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de. Retrieved 9 September 2019.