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I study the rational and irrational aspects of decision-making and its two-way relationship with mental wellbeing. Tweets reflect my own views, RT ≠ endorsement
Aug 3, 2022 16 tweets 11 min read
Bummer! The reliability of individual economic rationality measurements is moderate to poor🙁Here's a summary 🧵of our recent paper @PNASNews /w @lucalupken, Nils Lüschow, and @kalenscher. #neuroeconomics @INSEAD @HHU_de cc @veredkurtz @vectornomist
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Background: Research in psych, behav. & neuroecon searches individual differences & correlates of rationality. Indices of revealed preference consistency (GARP) are used as ad hoc measurement for the supposedly latent concept of rationality, often interpreted as psych. construct. Image
Oct 20, 2021 12 tweets 6 min read
This was a ride! My first registered report (stage 2) /w @kalenscher was just published at Royal Society Open Science 🎉🎉 "Influence of memory processes on choice-consistency". Here's a quick tweeprint...

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@RSocPublishing @HHU_de @RegReports We aimed to test the influence of memory retrieval of exemplars on choice-consistency in a novel visual choice paradigm. Participants had to select one out of a set of five cubes that has the subjectively most similar orientation along 2 dimensions to the exemplar.