Health and Medical University Potsdam Björn Meder Olympischer Weg 1 | 14471 Potsdam, Germany B [email protected] B [email protected] Curriculum vitae Í https://bmeder.org Professional appointments since Oct 2020 Full professor (Cognitive and Experimental Psychology / Allgemeine Psychologie), Health and Medical University Potsdam. April 2019–Sep 2020 Visiting professor, psychology (Vertretungsprofessur, Allgemeine Psychologie und Instruktionspsychologie), University of Erfurt. since Jan 2019 Associated member, Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Be- havioral Sciences (CEREB), University of Erfurt. since Oct 2018 Associate Researcher, Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. since Sep 2018 Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Research Group iSearch, Max Planck In- stitute for Human Development, Berlin. Oct 2017–Aug 2018 Research scientist, Max Planck Research Group iSearch, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Jan 2012–Sep 2017 Research scientist, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Oct 2011–Dec 2011 British Academy Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University, London, UK. Oct 2008–Sep 2011 Postdoctoral research fellow, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. May 2006–Sep 2008 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Göttingen. Apr 2003–Apr 2006 Predoctoral researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Göttingen. Education 2006 Dr. rer. nat (Ph.D.) Psychology, University of Göttingen. 2003 Diplom (M.Sc.) Psychology, University of Göttingen. Grants and fellowships 2015–2018 Models of Information Search: A Theoretical and Empirical Synthesis II (with J.D. Nelson, L. Martignon, V. Crupi, K. Tentori), DFG priority program SPP1516 “New frameworks of rationality” 2012–2014 Models of Information Search: A Theoretical and Empirical Synthesis (with J.D. Nelson, L. Martignon, V. Crupi, K. Tentori), DFG priority program SPP1516 “New frameworks of rationality” 2011–2012 DAAD travel grant “Improving medical decision making”‘ for collaboration with the University of Granada (with Fleischhut, Bodemer, Gigerenzer; MPIB Berlin) Oct 2011–Dec 2011 British Academy Visiting Scholar award for research stay at Queen Mary University London. Oct 2001–April 2002 Tuition grant, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft, University of Warwick, UK 1999–2003 Fellowship, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft -1- Representative publications Causal Meder, B. & Mayrhofer, R. (2017). Diagnostic causal reasoning with verbal reasoning information. Cognitive Psychology, 96, 54–84. Code and data: https://osf. io/gc2nd/ Meder, B., Mayrhofer, R., & Waldmann, M. (2014). Structure induction in diagnostic causal reasoning. Psychological Review, 121, 277–301. Code: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0035944.supp Search and Wu, C. M., Schulz, E., Speekenbrink, M., Nelson, J.D., & Meder, B. (2018) exploration Generalization guides human exploration in vast decision-spaces. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 915-924. Code and data: https://github.com/charleywu/ gridsearch. Meder, B., & Nelson, J. D. (2012). Information search with situation-specific reward functions. Judgment and Decision Making, 7, 119–148. Cognitive Meder, B., Wu, C.M., Schulz, E., & Ruggeri, A. (2021). Development of development directed and random exploration in children. Developmental Science, e13095. Code and data: https://osf.io/eq2bk/ Meder, B., Nelson, J.D., Jones, M., & Ruggeri, A. (2019). Stepwise versus globally optimal search in children and adults. Cognition, 191, 103965. Code and data: https://osf.io/cq48j/ Judgment and Meder, B., Fleischhut, N., Krumnau, N.-C., & Waldmann, M. R. (2019). How decision making should autonomous cars drive? A preference for defaults in moral judgments under risk and uncertainty. Risk Analysis, 39, 295–314. Code and data: https: //osf.io/sx85t/ Meder, B., Le Lec, F., & Osman, M. (2013). Decision making in uncertain times: what can cognitive and decision sciences say about or learn from economic crises? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17, 257–260. Behavioral Osman, M., McLachlan, S., Fenton, N., Neil, M., Löfstedt, R., & Meder, insights B. (2020). Learning from behavioural changes that fail. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 969-980. Supplemental material: https://psyarxiv.com/ae756 Meder, B., Fleischhut, N., & Osman, M. (2018). Beyond the confines of choice architecture: A critical analysis. Journal of Economic Psychology, 68, 36–44. -2- Publications Google scholar https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=GQdDlNYAAAAJ Research gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bjoern_Meder ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9326-400X Working papers and preprints 2020 Swaboda, N., Meder, B., & Ruggeri, A. (2020). Finding the (most efficient) way out of a maze is easier than asking (good) questions. PsyArXiv. https: //psyarxiv.com/tdaqg Nelson, J. D., Rosenauer, C., Crupi, V., Tentori, K. & Meder, B. (2020). On the likelihood difference heuristic and the utility of medical tests. 2019 Jones, A., Schulz, E., Meder, B. & Ruggeri, A. (2019). Learning functions actively. 2018 Nelson, J. D., Meder, B., & Jones, M. (2018). Towards a theory of heuristic and optimal planning for sequential information search. PsyArXiv. https: //psyarxiv.com/bxdf4/ Journal articles (peer reviewed) † indicates shared first authorship 2021 Meder, B., Mayrhofer, R., & Ruggeri, A. (2021). Developmental trajectories in the understanding of everyday uncertainty terms. Topics in Cognitive Science. Code and data: https://osf.io/g2c6x/ Meder, B., Wu, C.M., Schulz, E., & Ruggeri, A. (2021). Development of directed and random exploration in children. Developmental Science, 24,(4), e13095. Code and data: https://osf.io/eq2bk/ 2020 Osman, M., McLachlan, S., Fenton, N., Neil, M., Löfstedt, R., & Meder, B. (2020). Learning from behavioural changes that fail. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 969-980. Supplemental material: https://psyarxiv.com/ae756 Wu, C.M., Schulz, E., Garvert, M.M., Meder, B. & Schuck, N.W. (2020). Similarities and differences in spatial and non-spatial cognitive maps. PLOS Computational Biology, 16, e1008149. Code and data: https://github.com/ charleywu/cognitivemaps 2019 Schulz, E., Wu, C.M., Ruggeri, A., & Meder, B. (2019). Searching for re- wards like a child means less generalization and more directed exploration. Psychological Science, 30, 1561–1572. Code and data: https://git.io/vppsK Meder, B., Nelson, J.D., Jones, M., & Ruggeri, A. (2019). Stepwise versus globally optimal search in children and adults. Cognition, 191, 103965. Code and data: https://osf.io/cq48j/ Meder, B., Fleischhut, N., Krumnau, N.-C., & Waldmann, M. R. (2019). How should autonomous cars drive? A preference for defaults in moral judgments under risk and uncertainty. Risk Analysis, 39, 295–314. Code and data: https: //osf.io/sx85t/ 2018 Wu, C. M., Schulz, E., Speekenbrink, M., Nelson, J.D., & Meder, B. (2018) Generalization guides human exploration in vast decision-spaces. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 915–924. Code and data: https://github.com/charleywu/ gridsearch. -3- Meder, B.†, Fleischhut, N.†, & Osman, M.† (2018). Beyond the confines of choice architecture: A critical analysis. Journal of Economic Psychology, 68, 36–44. Crupi, V., Nelson, J. D., Meder, B., Cevolani, G, & Tentori, K. (2018). Generalized information theory meets human cognition: Introducing a unified framework to model uncertainty and information search. Cognitive Science, 42, 1410–1456. Jarecki, J., Meder, B., & Nelson, J. D. (2018). Naïve and robust: Class- conditional independence in human classification learning. Cognitive Science, 42, 4–42. 2017 Meder, B.† & Mayrhofer, R.† (2017). Diagnostic causal reasoning with verbal information. Cognitive Psychology, 96, 54–84. Code and data: https://osf. io/gc2nd/ Fleischhut, N., Meder, B., & Gigerenzer, G. (2017). Moral hindsight. Experi- mental Psychology, 64, 110–123. Wu, C., Meder, B., Filimon, F., & Nelson, J.D. (2017). Asking better questions: How presentation formats guide information search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43, 1274–1297. Knauber, H.M., Schray, H.H., Meder, B., Martignon, L.M., & Nelson, J.D. (2017). Informationssuche im Mathematikunterricht der Grundschule. (Infor- mation search in mathematics teaching in primary school). MNU Journal, 6, 375–382. Krisam, M., von Philipsborn, P., & Meder, B. (2017). Nudging in der Primär- prävention: Eine Übersicht und Perspektiven für Deutschland. [The use of nudging for primary prevention: a review and perspectives for Germany.] Das Gesundheitswesen, 79, 117–123. 2016 von Sydow, M., Hagmayer, Y., & Meder, B. (2016). Transitive reasoning distorts induction in causal chains. Memory & Cognition, 44, 469–487. 2014 Meder, B., Mayrhofer, R., & Waldmann, M. (2014). Structure induction in diagnostic causal reasoning. Psychological Review, 121, 277–301. Bodemer, N., Meder, B., & Gigerenzer, G. (2014). Communicating relative risk changes with baseline risk: Presentation format and numeracy matter. Medical Decision Making, 34, 615–626. Neth, H., Meder, B., Kothiyal, A. & Gigerenzer, G. (2014). Homo heuristicus in the financial world: From risk management to managing uncertainty. Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, 7, 134–144. Nelson, J. D., Divjak, B., Gudmundsdottir, G., Martignon, L. F., & Meder, B. (2014). Children’s sequential information