Publications
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Papers under review / preprints
Fischer, O. M., &
Frey, R. (2023). The many flavors of polarization: A systematic comparison of different conceptualizations and contexts.
PsyArXiv Preprint.
doi:10.31234/osf.io/bv496 |
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 Preprint.
doi:10.31234/osf.io/g7zr3 |
Tisdall, L.,
Frey, R., Wulff, D. U., Kellen, D., & Mata, R. (2023). Lifespan trajectories of risk preference, impulsivity, and self-control: A multiverse analysis.
PsyArXiv Preprint.
doi:10.31219/osf.io/uj359 |
Tisdall, L., MacNiven, K. H., Leong, J.,
Frey, R., Rieskamp, J., Hertwig, R., Knutson, B., & Mata, R. (2023). Structure of connections to the nucleus accumbens link to specific but not general measures of human risk preference.
PsyArXiv Preprint.
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |