Wolfgang Gaissmaier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3446325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Gaissmaier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaissmaier |
| SIGNATURE | GAISSMAIER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6273-178X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 314 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The role of familiarity and recollection in value-based decisions
Value-based decisions often require retrieving previous experiences from memory. A sense of familiarity, the subjective feeling of having encountered an option before, guides these search and decision processes. The current work explores the scope and boundaries of familiarity-based retrieval in predicting value-based decisions. To reach this goal, we formulate a familiarity-based decision making model (FB-DMM) that relies upon global matching of…
Social sampling shapes preferences for redistribution
Maximizing as satisficing
Framing Climate Uncertainty
The public debate around climate change is increasingly polarized. At the same time, the scientific consensus about the causes and consequences of climate change is strong. This inconsistency poses challenges for mitigation and adaptation efforts. The translation of uncertain numerical climate projections into simpler but ambiguous verbal frames may contribute to this polarization. In two experimental studies, we investigated 1) how “communicator…
The gap between medical and monetary choices under risk persists in decisions for others
Decisions under risk in the medical domain have been found to systematically diverge from decisions in the monetary domain. When making choices between monetary options, people commonly rely on a decision strategy that trades off outcomes with their probabilities; when making choices between medical options, people tend to neglect probability information. In two experimental studies, we tested to what extent differences between medical and moneta…
Warum erfolgreiche Prognosen einfach und unsicher sind
Decision Making
Illusionary pattern detection in habitual gamblers
Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 for vaccination decisions
Heuristic Decision Making
As reflected in the amount of controversy, few areas in psychology have undergone such dramatic conceptual changes in the past decade as the emerging science of heuristics. Heuristics are efficient cognitive processes, conscious or unconscious, that ignore part of the information. Because using heuristics saves effort, the classical view has been that heuristic decisions imply greater errors than do "rational" decisions as defined by logic or sta…
Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics
Many doctors, patients, journalists, and politicians alike do not understand what health statistics mean or draw wrong conclusions without noticing. Collective statistical illiteracy refers to the widespread inability to understand the meaning of numbers. For instance, many citizens are unaware that higher survival rates with cancer screening do not imply longer life, or that the statement that mammography screening reduces the risk of dying from…
Heuristic Decision Making
As reflected in the amount of controversy, few areas in psychology have undergone such dramatic conceptual changes in the past decade as the emerging science of heuristics. Heuristics are efficient cognitive processes, conscious or unconscious, that ignore part of the information. Because using heuristics saves effort, the classical view has been that heuristic decisions imply greater errors than do "rational" decisions as defined by logic or sta…
Social sampling shapes preferences for redistribution
The gap between medical and monetary choices under risk persists in decisions for others
Decisions under risk in the medical domain have been found to systematically diverge from decisions in the monetary domain. When making choices between monetary options, people commonly rely on a decision strategy that trades off outcomes with their probabilities; when making choices between medical options, people tend to neglect probability information. In two experimental studies, we tested to what extent differences between medical and moneta…
Warum erfolgreiche Prognosen einfach und unsicher sind
Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics
Many doctors, patients, journalists, and politicians alike do not understand what health statistics mean or draw wrong conclusions without noticing. Collective statistical illiteracy refers to the widespread inability to understand the meaning of numbers. For instance, many citizens are unaware that higher survival rates with cancer screening do not imply longer life, or that the statement that mammography screening reduces the risk of dying from…
Heuristic Decision Making
As reflected in the amount of controversy, few areas in psychology have undergone such dramatic conceptual changes in the past decade as the emerging science of heuristics. Heuristics are efficient cognitive processes, conscious or unconscious, that ignore part of the information. Because using heuristics saves effort, the classical view has been that heuristic decisions imply greater errors than do "rational" decisions as defined by logic or sta…
Opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 for vaccination decisions
Illusionary pattern detection in habitual gamblers
Decision Making
Warum erfolgreiche Prognosen einfach und unsicher sind
Framing Climate Uncertainty
The public debate around climate change is increasingly polarized. At the same time, the scientific consensus about the causes and consequences of climate change is strong. This inconsistency poses challenges for mitigation and adaptation efforts. The translation of uncertain numerical climate projections into simpler but ambiguous verbal frames may contribute to this polarization. In two experimental studies, we investigated 1) how “communicator…
The gap between medical and monetary choices under risk persists in decisions for others
Decisions under risk in the medical domain have been found to systematically diverge from decisions in the monetary domain. When making choices between monetary options, people commonly rely on a decision strategy that trades off outcomes with their probabilities; when making choices between medical options, people tend to neglect probability information. In two experimental studies, we tested to what extent differences between medical and moneta…
Maximizing as satisficing
Social sampling shapes preferences for redistribution
The role of familiarity and recollection in value-based decisions
Value-based decisions often require retrieving previous experiences from memory. A sense of familiarity, the subjective feeling of having encountered an option before, guides these search and decision processes. The current work explores the scope and boundaries of familiarity-based retrieval in predicting value-based decisions. To reach this goal, we formulate a familiarity-based decision making model (FB-DMM) that relies upon global matching of…
Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (2 works)