This course involves the co-ordinatinon of so-called project seminars and co-supervising a project seminar group (with Mikhail Spektor). Project seminars provide groups of psychology students with the opportunity to develope their own first empirical research project, supervised by a team of 11 researchers from various...
[dropcap type="1"]T[/dropcap]his course introduces bachelor students to scientific writing to prepare them for their bachelor thesis. In Basel, the thesis usually takes the form of a review article. The course teaches hands-on skills regarding the necessary parts of your thesis, the overall structure of a...
Lecture (jointly with Jörg Rieskamp) about the concept of risk in cognitive psychology, measures of human risk taking, theories and findings about how humans perceive the magnitude of risks, why they misperceive them sometimes, how people understand formats like percentages or conditional probability, how to...
Seminar discussing theories and findings about the evolutionary functions underlying human judgments, logical reasoning, decision making, and apparent systematic deviations from behavioral norms such as economic utility-maximizing "rationality"....