Publications

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Papers under review / preprints

Bürgler, S., & Frey, R. (2024). Cognition about cognition: Do scales from different fields assess metacognition alike? Manuscript under review. |
Fischer, O., & Frey, R. (2024). The many flavors of polarization: A systematic comparison of different conceptualizations and contexts. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/bv496 |
Fischer, O., Lob, A. B., & Frey, R. (2024). To reuse a needle or to pay digitally? A comparative analysis of researchers' and laypeople's perspectives on risky choices and associated mechanisms. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/h43cj |
Frey, R., & Fischer, O. (2024). Mapping the ecology of risk: 100 risky choices of modern life. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/a2kfs |
Lob, A. B., Fischer, O., & Frey, R. (2024). A taxonomy of state-specific psychological mechanisms underlying decisions under risk and uncertainty. Manuscript in preparation. |
Lob, A. B., & Frey, R. (2024). Modeling the subjective perception of uncertainty. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/rpgwn |
Pedroni, A., Rieskamp, J., Pachur, T., Frey, R., Westfall, J. E., & Figner, B. (2019). A prospect theory account of the “hot” Columbia Card Task. PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/g7zr3 |

2024

Tisdall, L., Frey, R., Wulff, D. U., Kellen, D., & Mata, R. (2024). Convergence of age differences in risk preference, impulsivity, and self-control: A multiverse analysis. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 79, gbae092. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbae092 |
Tisdall, L., MacNiven, K. H., Leong, J., Frey, R., Rieskamp, J., Hertwig, R., Knutson, B., & Mata, R. (2024). Structural projections to the Nucleus Accumbens link to impulsive components of human risk preference. Imaging Neuroscience. doi:10.31219/osf.io/ab4vr |

2023

Frey, R., Duncan, S. M., & Weber, E. U. (2023). Towards a typology of risk preference: Four risk profiles describe two-thirds of individuals in a large sample of the U.S. population. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 66, 1-17. doi:10.1007/s11166-022-09398-5 |

2021

Constantino, S. M., Pianta, S., Rinscheid, A., Frey, R., & Weber, E. U. (2021). The source is the message: The impact of institutional signals on climate change–related norm perceptions and behaviors. Climatic Change, 166, 1-20. doi:10.1007/s10584-021-03095-z | PDF |
Frey, R. (2021). Psychological drivers of individual differences in risk perception: A systematic case study focusing on 5G. Psychological Science, 32, 1592-1604. doi:10.1177/0956797621998312 | PDF |
Frey, R., Richter, D., Schupp, J., Hertwig, R., & Mata, R. (2021). Identifying robust correlates of risk preference: A systematic approach using specification curve analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 538–557. doi:10.1037/pspp0000287 | PDF |
Millroth, P., & Frey, R. (2021). Fear and anxiety in the face of COVID-19: Negative dispositions towards risk and uncertainty as vulnerability factors. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 83, 102454. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102454 | PDF |
Steiner, M., & Frey, R. (2021). Representative design in psychological assessment: A case study using the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 2117-2136. doi:10.1037/xge0001036 | PDF |
Steiner, M., Seitz, F., & Frey, R. (2021). Through the window of my mind: Mapping information integration and the cognitive representations underlying self-reported risk preference. Decision, 8, 97–122. doi:10.1037/dec0000127 | PDF |

2020

Frey, R. (2020). Decisions from experience: Competitive search and choice in kind and wicked environments. Judgment and Decision Making, 15, 282-303. doi:10.1017/S1930297500007415 | PDF |
Tisdall, L., Frey, R., Horn, A., Ostwald, D., Horvath, L., Blankenburg, F., Hertwig, R., & Mata, R. (2020). Brain-behavior associations for risk taking depend on the measures used to capture individual differences. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2020.587152 | PDF |

2019

Lejarraga, T., Frey, R., Schnitzlein, D. D., & Hertwig, R. (2019). No effect of birth order on adult risk taking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 201814153. doi:10.1073/pnas.1814153116 | PDF |
Mata, R., & Frey, R. (2019). The life-span development of risk preference. In Hertwig, R.; Pleskac, T. J.; Pachur, T. Taming Uncertainty. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. |
Schürmann, O., Frey, R., & Pleskac, T. J. (2019). Mapping risk perceptions in dynamic risk-taking environments. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 32, 94-105. doi:10.1002/bdm.2098 |

2018

Frey, R., Herzog, S. M., & Hertwig, R. (2018). Deciding on behalf of others: A population survey on procedural preferences for surrogate decision-making. BMJ Open, 8, e022289. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022289 | PDF |
Mata, R., Frey, R., Richter, D., Schupp, J., & Hertwig, R. (2018). Risk preference: A view from psychology. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 32, 155-172. doi:10.1257/jep.32.2.155 | PDF |

2017

Dutilh, G., Vandekerckhove, J., Ly, A., Matzke, D., Pedroni, A., Frey, R., Rieskamp, J., & Wagenmakers, E. (2017). A test of the diffusion model explanation for the worst performance rule using preregistration and blinding. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79, 713-725. doi:10.3758/s13414-017-1304-y | PDF |
Frey, R., Pedroni, A., Mata, R., Rieskamp, J., & Hertwig, R. (2017). Risk preference shares the psychometric structure of major psychological traits. Science Advances, 3, e1701381. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1701381 | PDF |
Hertwig, R., & Frey, R. (2017). How representations of knowledge shape our actions. In Meusburger, P.; Werlen, B.; Suarsana, L. Knowledge and space: Knowledge and action. Dordrecht: Springer. |
Pedroni, A., Frey, R., Bruhin, A., Dutilh, G., Hertwig, R., & Rieskamp, J. (2017). The risk elicitation puzzle. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 803-809. doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0219-x |

2016

Lejarraga, T., Pachur, T., Frey, R., & Hertwig, R. (2016). Decisions from experience: From monetary to medical gambles. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 29, 67-77. doi:10.1002/bdm.1877 |
Mamerow, L., Frey, R., & Mata, R. (2016). Risk taking across the life span: A comparison of self-report and behavioral measures of risk taking. Psychology and Aging, 31, 711-723. doi:10.1037/pag0000124 | PDF |

2015

Frey, R., Mata, R., & Hertwig, R. (2015). The role of cognitive abilities in decisions from experience: Age differences emerge as a function of choice set size. Cognition, 142, 60-80. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.05.004 |
Frey, R., Rieskamp, J., & Hertwig, R. (2015). Sell in May and go away? Learning and risk taking in nonmonotonic decision problems. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 193-208. doi:10.1037/a0038118 |
Hertwig, R., & Frey, R. (2015). The challenge of the description-experience gap to the communication of risks. In Cho, H.; Reimer, T. O.; McComas, K. A. The SAGE handbook of risk communication. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |

2014

Frey, R., Hertwig, R., & Herzog, S. M. (2014). Surrogate decision making: Do we have to trade off accuracy and procedural satisfaction? Medical Decision Making, 34, 258-69. doi:10.1177/0272989X12471729 |
Frey, R., Hertwig, R., & Rieskamp, J. (2014). Fear shapes information acquisition in decisions from experience. Cognition, 132, 90-99. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2014.03.009 |