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Chair Glöckner Group | Sozialpsychologie

Prof. Dr. Andreas Glöckner

Phone +49-221-470-7916
Fax +49-221-470-1216

E-mailandreas.gloecknerSpamProtectionuni-koeln.de
AddressRichard-Strauss-Str. 2, 50931 Köln | Germany

Room 2.A11
Office hours by appointment

Research interests

Judgment and decision making • Cooperation • Open Science • Intuition • Stereotypes and discrimination • Cross-cultural studies • Eye-Tracking • Computational modelling • Neuronal networks • Behavioral economics • Empirical legal studies

Key Publications

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All Publications

  • Dorrough, A. R., Köbis, N., Irlenbusch, B., Shalvi, S., & Glöckner, A. (2023). Conditional bribery: Insights from incentivized experiments across 18 nations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America120(18), e2209731120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209731120 [data and materials on OSF] 

  • Schäfer, S. J., Simsek, M., Jaspers, E., Kros, M., Hewstone, M., Schmid, K., Fell, B. F., Dorrough, A. R., Glöckner, A., & Christ, O. (2022). Dynamic contact effects: Individuals’ positive and negative contact history influences intergroup contact effects in a behavioral game. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123, 107–122. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000374 [data and materials on OSF]

  • Leising, D., Thielmann, I., Glöckner, A., Gärtner, A., & Schönbrodt, F. (2022). Ten steps toward a better personality science – How quality may be rewarded more in research evaluation. Personality Science, 3, 1-44.  https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.v3i  

  • Lange, J., Unkelbach, C., Glöckner, A., Gollwitzer, M., Kaiser, F. G., & Sassenberg, K. (2022). Das Zusammenspiel von Theorie und Methodik. Psychologische Rundschau, 73, 18–52. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000565 

  • Dorrough, A. R., Olsson, M. I. T., Froehlich, L., Glöckner, A., & Martiny, S. E. (2020). Does she compensate the victim while he punishes the perpetrator? No gender differences in anonymous economic games across 11 nations. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34(2), 261-274. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2208 [data and materials on OSF]

  • Glöckner, A. (2020). Legitimität und Rechtsbefolgung: Eine empirisch-psychologische Perspektive. In T. Herbst & S. Zucca-Soest (Eds.), Legitimität des Staates (pp.47-64). Baden-Baden: Nomos.

  • Fischer, I., Avrashi, S., Oz, T., Fadul, R., Gutman, K., Rubinstein, D., Kroliczak, G., Georg, S., & Glöckner, A. (2020). The behavioral challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic: Indirect Measurements and Personalized Attitude Changing Treatment (IMPACT). Royal Society Open Science, 7: 201131. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201131 [data]

  • Waubert de Puiseau, B., Glöckner, A., & Towfigh, E. V. (2019). Integrating theories of law obedience: How utility-theoretic factors, legitimacy, and lack of self-control influence decisions to commit low-level crimes. Judgment and Decision Making, 14, 318–334. [pdf] [data and materials on OSF]

  • Glöckner, A. (2019). Der Mensch im Spannungsfeld zwischen (begrenzter) Rationalität, Eigeninteresse und Kooperation: Welches Wesen adressiert das Recht? In A. Funke & U. Schmalke (Eds.), Menschenbilder im Recht (pp. 79-91).Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-157698-0

  • Glöckner, A., & Jekel, M. (2019). Testing cognitive models by a joint analysis of multiple dependent measures. In M. Schulte-Mecklenbeck et al. (Eds.), Handbook of Process Tracing (2nd Edition)(pp. 356-373). New York: Routledge.

  • Betsch, T., Lehmann, A., Jekel, M., Lindow, S., & Glöckner, A. (2018). Children's application of decision strategies in a compensatory environment. Judgment and Decision Making, 13, 514–528.  [pdf]  [data]

  • Fiedler, S., Hellmann, D. M., Dorrough, A., & Glöckner, A. (2018). Cross-national in-group favoritism in prosocial behavior: Evidence from Latin and North America. Judgment and Decision Making, 13(1), 42-60.  [pdf]  [data and materials on OSF]

  • Glöckner, A., Fiedler, S., & Renkewitz, F. (2018). Belastbare und effiziente Wissenschaft: Strategische Ausrichtung von Forschungsprozessen als Weg aus der Replikationskrise. Psychologische Rundschau, 69, 22–36. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000384

  • Jekel, M., & Glöckner, A. (2018). How to identify strategy use and adaptive strategy selection: The crucial role of chance correction in weighted compensatory strategies. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31, 265–279. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1983

  • Jekel, M., & Glöckner, A. (2018). Meaningful model comparisons have to include reasonable competing models and also all data: A rejoinder to Rieskamp (2018). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31, 289–293. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2076

  • Marewski, J. N., Bröder, A., & Glöckner, A. (2018). Some metatheoretical reflections on adaptive decision making and the strategy selection problem. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31, 181–198. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2075

  • Mischkowski, D., Glöckner, A., & Lewisch, P. (2018). From spontaneous cooperation to spontaneous punishment – Distinguishing the underlying motives driving spontaneous behavior in first and second order public good games. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 149, 59–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2018.07.001  [data and materials on OSF]

  • Stürmer, S., Christ, O., Jonkmann, K., Josephs, I., Gaschler, R., Glöckner, A., … Salewski, C. (2018). 10 Jahre universitäres Fernstudium in Psychologie an der FernUniversität in Hagen. Psychologische Rundschau, 69, 104–108. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000400

  • Towfigh, E. V., Traxler, C., & Glöckner, A. (2018). Geschlechts- und Herkunftseffekte bei der Benotung juristischer Staatsprüfungen. Zeitschrift Für Didaktik Der Rechtswissenschaft, 5, 115–142.

  • Bouwmeester, S., Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L., Aczel, B., Barbosa, F., Bègue, L., Brañas-Garza, P., … Glöckner, A., … Mischkowski, D., … Wollbrant, C. E. (2017). Registered Replication Report: Rand, Greene, and Nowak (2012). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 527–542. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617693624  [data and materials on OSF]

  • Ashby, N. J. S., Jekel, M., Dickert, S., & Glöckner, A. (2016). Finding the right fit: A comparison of process assumptions underlying popular drift-diffusion models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 1982–1993. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000279

  • Glöckner, A. (2016). The irrational hungry judge effect revisited: Simulations reveal that the magnitude of the effect is overestimated. Judgment and Decision Making, 11, 601–610.  [pdf]

  • Glöckner, A., Hilbig, B. E., Henninger, F., & Fiedler, S. (2016). The reversed description-experience gap: Disentangling sources of presentation format effects in risky choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 486–508. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0040103  [data and materials on OSF]

  • Glöckner, A., & Towfigh, E. V. (2016). Messgenauigkeit und Fairness in Staatsprüfungen: Aktuelle Studien zeigen Gruppen-Unterschiede in juristischen Examina auf. Anwaltsblatt, 10, 706–709.

  • Seithe, M., Morina, J., & Glöckner, A. (2016). Bonn eXperimental System (BoXS): An open-source platform for interactive experiments in psychology and economics. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 1454–1475. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0660-6

  • Towfigh, E. V., Goerg, S. J., Glöckner, A., Leifeld, P., Llorente-Saguer, A., Bade, S., & Kurschilgen, C. (2016). Do direct-democratic procedures lead to higher acceptance than political representation? Experimental survey evidence from Germany. Public Choice, 167, 47–65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-016-0330-y

  • Ashby, N. J. S., Walasek, L., & Glöckner, A. (2015). The effect of consumer ratings and attentional allocation on product valuations. Judgment and Decision Making, 10, 172–184.  [pdf]  [data and materials]

  • Glöckner, A., Tontrup, S., & Bechtold, S. (2015). Disentangling psychological sources of overpricing in anticommons dilemmas: Strategic incentives, endowment effects, and interdependence of outcomes. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 28, 224–238. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1839  [data and materials on OSF]

  • Glöckner, A., & Towfigh, E. V. (2015). Entscheidungen zwischen „Intuition“ und „Rationalität“. Deutsche Richterzeitung, 7/8, 14–17.

  • Morell, A., Glöckner, A., & Towfigh, E. V. (2015). Sticky rebates: Loyalty rebates impede rational switching of consumers. Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 11, 431–461. https://doi.org/10.1093/joclec/nhv009

  • Engel, C., Beckenkamp, M., Glöckner, A., Irlenbusch, B., Hennig-Schmidt, H., Kube, S., … Towfigh, E. (2014). First impressions are more important than early intervention: Qualifying Broken Windows Theory in the lab. International Review of Law and Economics, 37, 126–136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2013.07.005

  • Glöckner, A., & Bröder, A. (2014). Cognitive integration of recognition information and additional cues in memory-based decisions. Judgment and Decision Making, 9, 35–50.  [pdf]  [data]

  • Hilbig, B. E., Glöckner, A., & Zettler, I. (2014). Personality and prosocial behavior: Linking basic traits and social value orientations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 529–539. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036074

  • Jekel, M., Glöckner, A., Bröder, A., & Maydych, V. (2014). Approximating rationality under incomplete information: Adaptive inferences for missing cue values based on cue-discrimination. Judgment and Decision Making, 9, 129–147.  [pdf]  [data and materials]

  • Söllner, A., Bröder, A., Glöckner, A., & Betsch, T. (2014). Single-process versus multiple-strategy models of decision making: Evidence from an information intrusion paradigm. Acta Psychologica, 146, 84–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.12.007

  • Towfigh, E. V., Traxler, C., & Glöckner, A. (2014). Zur Benotung in der Examensvorbereitung und im ersten Examen: eine empirische Analyse. Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Rechtswissenschaft, 1, 8–27.

  • Bröder, A., Glöckner, A., Betsch, T., Link, D., & Ettlin, F. (2013). Do people learn option or strategy routines in multi-attribute decisions? The answer depends on subtle factors. Acta Psychologica, 143, 200–209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.03.005

  • Engel, C., & Glöckner, A. (2013). Role-induced bias in court: An experimental analysis. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26, 272–284. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1761

  • Fiedler, S., Glöckner, A., Nicklisch, A., & Dickert, S. (2013). Social Value Orientation and information search in social dilemmas: An eye-tracking analysis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 120, 272–284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.07.002

  • Glöckner, A., & Engel, C. (2013). Can we trust intuitive jurors? Standards of proof and the probative value of evidence in coherence-based reasoning. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 10, 230–252. https://doi.org/10.1111/jels.12009

  • Towfigh, E. V., Glöckner, A., & Reid, R. (2013). Dangerous games: The psychological case for regulating gambling. Charleston Law Review, 8, 148–189.

  • Ashby, N. J. S., Dickert, S., & Glöckner, A. (2012). Focusing on what you own: Biased information uptake due to ownership. Judgment and Decision Making, 7, 254–267.  [pdf]  [data]

  • Dickert, S., Herbig, B., Glöckner, A., Gansen, C., & Portack, R. (2012). The more the better? Effects of training, experience and information amount in legal judgments. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 26, 223–233. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1813

  • Fiedler, S., Glöckner, A., & Nicklisch, A. (2012). The influence of Social Value Orientation on information processing in repeated Voluntary Contribution Mechanism games: An eye-tracking analysis. In A. Innocenti & A. Sirigu (Eds.), Neuroscience and the economics of decision making. New York, NY: Routledge.

  • Glöckner, A., Fiedler, S., Hochman, G., Ayal, S., & Hilbig, B. E. (2012). Processing differences between descriptions and experience: A comparative analysis using eye-tracking and physiological measures. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:173. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00173

  • Glöckner, A., & Hilbig, B. E. (2012). Risk is relative: Risk aversion yields cooperation rather than defection in cooperation-friendly environments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 546–553. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-012-0224-z

  • Ashby, N. J. S., Glöckner, A., & Dickert, S. (2011). Conscious and unconscious thought in risky choice: Testing the capacity principle and the appropriate weighting principle of Unconscious Thought Theory. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 261. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00261

  • Glöckner, A., & Betsch, T. (2011). The empirical content of theories in judgment and decision making: Shortcomings and remedies. Judgment and Decision Making, 6, 711–721.  [pdf]

  • Glöckner, A., & Bröder, A. (2011). Processing of recognition information and additional cues: A model-based analysis of choice, confidence, and response time. Judgment and Decision Making, 6, 23–42.  [pdf]

  • Glöckner, A., & Ebert, I. D. (2011). Legal intuition and expertise. In M. Sinclair (Ed.), Handbook of intuition research (pp. 157–167). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

  • Glöckner, A., & Herbold, A.-K. (2011). An eye-tracking study on information processing in risky decisions: Evidence for compensatory strategies based on automatic processes. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 24, 71–98.

  • Glöckner, A., & Hilbig, B. E. (2011). Editorial: Methodology in judgment and decision making research. Judgment and Decision Making, 6, 705–710.  [pdf]

  • Glöckner, A., & Hochman, G. (2011). The interplay of experience-based affective and probabilistic cues in decision making. Experimental Psychology, 58, 132–141. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000078

  • Glöckner, A., Irlenbusch, B., Kube, S., Nicklisch, A., & Normann, H.-T. (2011). Leading with(out) sacrifice? A public-goods experiment with a privileged player. Economic Inquiry, 49, 591–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00314.x

  • Glöckner, A., & Landsberg, M. (2011). Der Schöffe entscheidet: Eine empirische Studie zum Entscheidungsverhalten von Schöffen. Richter ohne Robe, 23, 44–47.

  • Hilbig, B. E., & Glöckner, A. (2011). Yes, they can! Appropriate weighting of small probabilities as a function of information acquisition. Acta Psychologica, 138, 390–396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.09.005

  • Jekel, M., Fiedler, S., & Glöckner, A. (2011). Diagnostic task selection for strategy classification in judgment and decision making: Theory, validation, and implementation in R. Judgment and Decision Making, 6, 782–799. [pdf]  [materials]

  • Towfigh, E. V., & Glöckner, A. (2011). Game over: Empirical support for soccer bets regulation. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 17, 475–506.

  • Engel, C., Glöckner, A., & Schönfeldt, K. (2010). Informationsverzerrungen bei rechtlichen Entscheidungen. Richter ohne Robe, 22, 135–136.

  • Glöckner, A. (2010). Multiple measure strategy classification: Outcomes, decision times and confidence ratings. In A. Glöckner & C. L. M. Witteman (Eds.), Foundations for tracing intuition: Challenges and methods (pp. 83–105). London, UK: Psychology Press & Routledge.

  • Glöckner, A., & Betsch, T. (2010). Accounting for critical evidence while being precise and avoiding the strategy selection problem in a parallel constraint satisfaction approach: A reply to Marewski (2010). Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 23, 468–472.

  • Glöckner, A., Betsch, T., & Schindler, N. (2010). Coherence shifts in probabilistic inference tasks. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 23, 439–462.

  • Glöckner, A., & Witteman, C. L. M. (2010). Beyond dual-process models: A categorisation of processes underlying intuitive judgement and decision making. Thinking & Reasoning, 16, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546780903395748

  • Glöckner, A., & Witteman, C. L. M. (2010). Foundations for tracing intuition: Challenges and methods. London, UK: Psychology Press & Routledge.

  • Glöckner, A., & Witteman, C. L. M. (2010). Foundations for tracing intuition: Models, findings, categorizations. In A. Glöckner & C. L. M. Witteman (Eds.), Foundations for tracing intuition: Challenges and methods (pp. 1–23). London, UK: Psychology Press & Routledge.

  • Hochman, G., Ayal, S., & Glöckner, A. (2010). Physiological arousal in processing recognition information: Ignoring or integrating cognitive cues? Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 285–299.  [pdf]

  • Hochman, G., Glöckner, A., & Yechiam, E. (2010). Physiological measures in identifying decision strategies. In A. Glöckner & C. L. M. Witteman (Eds.), Foundations for tracing intuition: Challenges and methods (pp. 139–159). London, UK: Psychology Press & Routledge.

  • Jekel, M., Nicklisch, A., & Glöckner, A. (2010). Implementation of the Multiple-Measure Maximum Likelihood strategy classification method in R: Addendum to Glöckner (2009) and practical guide for application. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 54–63.  [pdf]  [data and materials]

  • Witteman, C. L. M., & Glöckner, A. (2010). Tracing intuition: Summing up and exemplified method applications. In A. Glöckner & C. L. M. Witteman (Eds.), Foundations for tracing intuition: Challenges and methods (pp. 272–278). London, UK: Psychology Press & Routledge.

  • Glöckner, A. (2009). „Neurorecht“ ohne Psychologie? Die Rolle verhaltenswissenschaftlicher Betrachtungsebenen bei der Ableitung rechtspolitischer Empfehlungen. In S. Schleim, T. M. Spranger, & H. Walter (Eds.), Von der Neuroethik zum Neurorecht? (pp. 104–131). Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

  • Glöckner, A. (2009). Investigating intuitive and deliberate processes statistically: The multiple-measure maximum likelihood strategy classification method. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 186–199.  [pdf]  [data and materials]

  • Glöckner, A., & Moritz, S. (2009). A fine-grained analysis of the jumping-to-conclusions bias in schizophrenia: Data-gathering, response confidence, and information integration. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 587–600.  [pdf]

  • Glöckner, A., & Schönfeldt, K. (2009). Ich überlege. Mein Bauch entscheidet? - Intuition und Entscheidung. Richter ohne Robe, 21, 60–61.

  • Horstmann, N., Ahlgrimm, A., & Glöckner, A. (2009). How distinct are intuition and deliberation? An eye-tracking analysis of instruction-induced decision modes. Judgment and Decision Making, 4, 335–354.  [pdf]

  • Glöckner, A. (2008). How evolution outwits bounded rationality: The efficient interaction of automatic and deliberate processes in decision making and implications for institutions. In C. Engel & W. Singer (Eds.), Better than conscious? Decision making, the human mind, and implications for institutions (pp. 259–284). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  • Glöckner, A., & Betsch, T. (2008). Do people make decisions under risk based on ignorance? An empirical test of the priority heuristic against cumulative prospect theory. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 107, 75–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2008.02.003

  • Glöckner, A., & Betsch, T. (2008). Modeling option and strategy choices with connectionist networks: Towards an integrative model of automatic and deliberate decision making. Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 215–228.  [pdf]

  • Glöckner, A., & Betsch, T. (2008). Multiple-reason decision making based on automatic processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 1055–1075. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.34.5.1055

  • McElreath, R., Boyd, R., Gigerenzer, G., Glöckner, A., Hammerstein, P., Kurzban, R., … Stevens, J. R. (2008). Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions. In C. Engel & W. Singer (Eds.), Better than conscious? Decision making, the human mind, and implications for institutions (pp. 325–342). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  • Glöckner, A. (2007). Does intuition beat fast and frugal heuristics? A systematic empirical analysis. In H. Plessner, C. Betsch, & T. Betsch (Eds.), Intuition in judgment and decision making (pp. 309–325). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

  • Glöckner, A. (2006). Automatische Prozesse bei Entscheidungen. Hamburg, Germany: Kovac.

  • Haberstroh, S., Betsch, T., Glöckner, A., Haar, T., & Stiller, A. (2005). The impact of routines on deliberate decisions: The microworld-simulation COMMERCE. In T. Betsch & S. Haberstroh (Eds.), The routines of decision making (pp. 211–229). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

  • Betsch, T., Haberstroh, S., Molter, B., & Glöckner, A. (2004). Oops, I did it again—Relapse errors in routinized decision making. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 93, 62–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2003.09.002

  • Glöckner, A., & Grüner, K. (2003). Effizientes Online-Verfahren für die Personalentwicklung: 360° Führungsfeedback. Planung & Analyse, 2, 85–90.

  • Betsch, T., Haberstroh, S., Glöckner, A., Haar, T., & Fiedler, K. (2001). The effects of routine strength on adaptation and information search in recurrent decision making. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 84, 23–53. https://doi.org/10.1006/obhd.2000.2916

  • Betsch, T., Glöckner, A., & Haberstroh, S. (2000). COMMERCE—A micro-world simulation to study routine maintenance and deviation in repeated decision making. Methods of Psychological Research, 5.  [full text]

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Academic distinctions

  • Award for Quality Assurance in Psychology of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) for the Network of Open Science Initiatives (NOSI), 2020
  • Editor-in-chief Judgment and Decision Making, since 2018
  • President of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM), 2017-2019
  • Executive board member of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM), 2013-2017
  • Vice chairman of the academic advisory council of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID, Trier), since 2018

  • Associate / Action Editor
    • Judgment and Decision Making, 2012-2018
    • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2013-2018
    • Special Issue Methodology in judgment and decision making research for Judgment and Decision Making, 2011
    • Special Issue Strategy Selection for Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2015-2017

  • Member of editorial boards
    • Social Cognition, since 2011
    • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, since 2012
    • Frontiers in Cognitive Science, since 2011
    • Judgment and Decision Making, 2010-2012

  • Research grants from various funding organizations, e.g., German Research Foundation (DFG), German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), Max Planck Society (MPG), European Association for Decision Making (EADM)

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