Ralph Hertwig | |
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Born | |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Konstanz |
Awards | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2017) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychology Decision making |
Institutions | Max 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) |
Website | www |
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.