R-code, Tips / 27.06.2018
How to create R-Packages
Do you need some functions over and over again? Tired of sourcing them to multiple projects?
Author: janajarecki
Research / 23.06.2018
Process Models
Do we, as scientific community, actually agree about what constitutes a process model? We developed a practical framework for eveyone developing process models specifying the necessary characteristics of cognitive process models (in collaboration with Jolene H. Tan, and Mirjam A. Jenny; both Max Planck Institute...
Uncategorized / 23.06.2018
Categorization
We do it every day: correctly classifying people, objects, words. What seems easy for humans is computationally very complex. Together with Jonathan D. Nelson and Björn Meder (both Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, MPIB Berlin) I hypothesized and found that a relatively simple statistical...
Uncategorized / 23.06.2018
Evolution – Cognition
Human behavior changes across contexts like family, health, or job situations. I measure and model whether the aspects of situations determine our attitudes towards risk; specifically how our attitudes change across ten evolutionary domains. Together with Andreas Wilke (Clarkson University, NY, USA), I ask which...
Uncategorized / 23.06.2018
Human Preferences
People often state that they prefer one thing over the other. Whether these preferences are learned, constructed, discovered, or something completely different, is unclear. We ask: What is the cognitive process underlying preference formation? And we have a pretty neat idea (with Jörg Rieskamp at...