Dr. Freiin Bettina Cornelia von Helversen-Helversheim Curriculum Vitae

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1 Dr. Freiin Bettina Cornelia von Helversen-Helversheim Curriculum Vitae Office Center for Economic Psychology Department for Psychology, University of Basel Missionsstr. 62a 4055 Basel, Switzerland Phone: , Fax: Home Haltingerstr Basel, Switzerland Academic Experience and Positions Research Scientist at the University of Basel, Department for Psychology 2008 Research Scientist in the DFG project on A cognitive approach to modeling quantitative estimations (Supervision Dr. Rieskamp) at the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 2007 (Nov- Dec) 2007 (Feb- April) Post doctoral research fellow at the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Visiting researcher at the Department of Psychology, University of Michigan (with Prof. Richard Gonzalez) Predoctoral research fellow at the International Max Planck Research School, LIFE; Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Research Assistant at the Department for Social Psychology, Friedrich- Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg Education 01/2008 Dr. rer. Nat. Summa Cum Laude, Humboldt-University in Berlin Quantitative Estimation from Multiple Cues: Test and Application of a New Cognitive Model (summa cum laude) 02/2004 M.A. (Diplom-Psychologe) Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen- Nürnberg (grade 1.0) The importance of subjective difficulty and physiological effort for the ease of retrieval effect: Has the ease of retrieval effect a physiological basis? 1

2 Teaching Experience Seminars: cognitive development; judgment and decision making; scientific presentation; project seminars Supervision of master and bachelor theses (University of Basel) 2008 Seminar Decision making and Choice under Uncertainty (Humboldt University in Berlin) 2005 Seminar The biased mind reconsidered (Free University in Berlin) Grants and Honors 2012 Travel Grant Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences 2010 The memory foundation of judgment and categorization processes. (Co-PI, with Prof. Jörg Rieskamp, Swiss National Science Foundation) 2009 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society Post doc Stipend of Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 2006 DFG travel grant for visiting the Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2007 in Boston, USA 2005 DFG travel grant for visiting 21st Meeting of the Brunswik society and the 26th Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making in Toronto, Canada Stipend of the International Max Planck Research School, LIFE Erasmus Stipend for the Universidad de Valencia, Spain Direct-exchange Stipend for the University of Kansas, USA & Fulbright travel Grant Professional Memberships Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Psychonomic Society, German Society for Psychology, Cognitive Science Society Professional Services Review Editor: Frontiers in Psychology, Romanian National Research Council Ad-Hoc Reviewer Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Psychonomic Bulleting and Review, Mathematical Psychology, Judgment and Decision Making, Frontiers in Cognitive Science, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Basic and Applied Social Psychology 2

3 Publications Peer Reviewed Journals Hoffmann, J., von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (in press). Deliberation s blind sight: How cognitive load improves judgment processes. Psychological Science von Helversen, B., & Mata, R. (2012). Loosing a dime with a Satisfied mind: aging in sequential choice. Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication. Mata, R., Pachur, T., von Helversen, B., Hertwig, R., Rieskamp, J., & Schooler, L. (2012). Ecological Rationality: A Framework for Understanding and Aiding the Aging Decision Maker. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 6: 19. Mata, R. von Helversen, B., Karlsson, L., & Cüpper, L. (2011). Adult age differences in categorization and multiple-cue judgment. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: /a Mata, R., von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2011). When easy comes hard: The development of adaptive strategy selection. Child Development, 82, von Helversen, B., Wilke, A., Johnson, T., Schmid, G. & Klapp, B. (2011). Performance benefits of depression: Sequential decision making in a healthy sample and a clinically depressed sample.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, Mata, R., von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2010). Cognitive aging and strategy selection learning in decision making. Psychology and Aging, 25, von Helversen, B., Mata, R. & Olsson, H. (2010). Do children profit from looking beyond looks? From similarity-based to cue-abstraction processes in multiple-cue judgment. Developmental Psychology, 46, von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp. J. (2010). Learning in multiple-cue judgment tasks. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32 nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp ). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2009). Predicting Sentencing for Low Level Crimes: Comparing Models of Human Judgment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 15, von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2009). Models of Quantitative Estimations: Rulebased and Exemplar-Based Processes Compared. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 35, von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2008). The mapping model: A cognitive theory of quantitative estimation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137,

4 von Helversen, B., Gendolla, G.H.E., Winkielman, P., & Schmidt, R. E. (2008). Exploring the hardship of ease: subjective and objective effort in the ease-of-processing paradigm. Motivation and Emotion, 32, Book Chapters Hupfeld-Heinemann, J. & von Helversen, B. (2009). Models of decision-making on guilt and sanctions. In M. Oswald, S. Bieneck, & J. Hupfeld-Heinemann (Hrsg.). Social Psychology of Punishment of Crime (pp ). Chichester, UK: Wiley- Blackwell. Scheibehenne, B., & von Helversen, B. (2009). Useful heuristics. In T. Williams, K. Samset & K. J. Sunnevåg (Eds.). Making essential choices with scant information - front-end decision-making in major projects (pp ). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. von Helversen, B., & Johnson, T. P. (2008). Der Einfluss von "Satisficing" und "Maximizing" auf das Entscheidungsverhalten. In W. Sarges & D. Scheffer. Innovative Ansätze für die Eignungsdiagnostik. Reihe: Psychologie für das Personalmanagement (pp ). Göttingen: Hogrefe. Working Papers von Helversen, B, Herzog, S., M., & Rieskamp, J. (2012). Haunted by a doppelgänger: Irrelevant facial similarity affects rule-based judgments. Manuscript submitted for publication von Helversen, B., Schooler, L., & Czienkowski, U. (2012). The benefit of stripes? Dazzle camouflage influences perceived speed and hitting probability. Manuscript submitted for publication. Von Helversen, B. & Johnson, T. (2012). Perceptions of similarity and merit override the effects of social standing on sharing in the dictator game. Manuscript submitted for publication Mata, R. & von Helversen, B. (2012) Search and the aging mind: Promise and limits of the cognitive control hypothesis of age differences in search. Submitted for publication von Helversen, B., Karlsson, L., Mata, R., & Wilke, A. (2012). When and why knowledge matters: Task knowledge biases towards cue abstraction processes in categorization and judgment. Manuscript in preparation. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, R. (2012). Simple rules for learning: Learning processes in multiple-cue judgments depend on the environment. Manuscript in preparation. von Helversen, B. Karlsson, L., Rasch, B. Rieskamp, J. (2012). The neural substrate of strategy variety in human judgment Manuscript in preparation 4

5 Herzog, S. M., & von Helversen, B. (2012). The benefits of blending cognitive processes. Manucript in preparation Invited talks Von Helversen, B (2012, April). Haunted by a Doppelgänger: Facial Similarity Affects Human Judgments. Invited talk at the Social psychology Kolloquium at the University of Basel. von Helversen, B. (2010, Oct). Loosing a dime with a satisfied mind: Affect and age in sequential choice. Invited talk at the ETH behavioral colloquium, Zürich, Switzerland. von Helversen, B. (2010, July). Strategy choices across the lifespan: Strategy learning and strategy choice in multiple-cue judgment. Invited talk at the research colloquium of the department for psychology, Göttingen, Germany. von Helversen, B. (2010, May). Strategy choices across the lifespan: Similarity-based and rule-based strategies in multiple-cue judgment. Invited talk at the International Seminar on Aging, Depression and Control of Cognitive and Affective Processes, Warsaw, Poland. von Helversen, B. (2009, April). Heuristics in Legal Decision Making. Invited paper at the ZiF-Tagung "Interdisziplinarität in den Rechtswissenschaften - Innen- und Außenperspektiven, Bielefeld. von Helversen, B. (2008, Dec.). Die ökologische Rationalität von Heuristiken. Invited talk at the research colloquium of the department for evolutionary biology, Bielefeld. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2008, July). The mapping model: A cognitive theory for estimation from multiple cues. Invited paper presented at the conference for Formal Models in Memory, Judgment, and Decision Making, Mannheim. von Helversen, B. (2008, April). Strategies for Quantitative Estimation. Invited talk at the research colloquium of the department for experimental psychology of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2006, June). Simple models of estimation. Invited talk at the research retreat of the cognitive psychology department of the University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. von Helversen, B., Wilke, A., Johnson, T. (2006, January). Does depression influence information search? Two experimental studies in adaptive decision-making. Invited talk at the Research Colloquium of the psychosomatic department, Charité, Berlin. 5

6 Posters & Presentations Von Helversen, B., Herzog, S.M., & Rieskamp, J. (2012, Sept). Ähnlichkeit beeinflusst quantitative Urteile. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Bielefeld. Von Helversen, B., & Mata, R. (2012, March). Affect influences search and performance in sequential decisions. Paper presented at the 54 th Tagung für experimentelle Psychologie, Mannheim, Germany. von Helversen, B & Karlsson, L., Rasch, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2011, Nov).Neural correlates of judgment strategies.. Poster presented at the 52 nd Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, USA. von Helversen, B., Herzog, S., M. & Rieskamp, J. (2011, Nov). Haunted by a doppelgänger: Facial Similarity Affects Human Judgments. Paper presented at the 32 nd Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Seattle, USA. von Helversen, B., Herzog, S., M. & Rieskamp, J. (2011, Aug). Haunted by a doppelgänger: Facial Similarity Affects Human Judgments. Paper presented at the 23 rd subjective utility, probability and decision making conference, Kingston, UK. von Helversen, B., Herzog, S.M., & Rieskamp, J. (2011, March). Ähnlichkeit und Regeln: Worauf basieren quantitative Urteile? Paper presented at the 53 rd Tagung für experimentelle Psychologie, Halle, Germany. von Helversen, B., Rieskamp, J. (2010, Aug). Learning in Multiple-cue Judgment Tasks. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, Oregon. von Helversen, B., Herzog, S.M., Rieskamp, J. (2010, Aug). Averaging and Choosing in the Mind: Should Judgments Be Based on Exemplars, Rules or Both? Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Portland, Oregon. von Helversen, B & Rieskamp, J. (2010, June). Predicting sentencing for low-level crimes: comparing models of human judgment. Paper presented at the 20th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, Gothenburg, Sweden. von Helversen, B & Rieskamp, J. (2010, March). Lernen in multiple-cue Schätzaufgaben. Paper presented at the 52. Tagung für experimentelle Psychologie, Saarbrücken. von Helversen, B & Mata, R. (2009, Nov). Losing a dime with a satisfied mind: Positive affect accounts for age-related differences in sequential decision making. Poster presented at the 30 th Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, USA. 6

7 von Helversen, B & Rieskamp, J. (2009, Nov). Cognitive Processes in Multiple-cue Judgments from Continuous Cues. Poster presented at the 50 th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, USA. von Helversen, B. & Rieskamp, J. (2009, March). Strategien zur quantitativen Schätzung: Der Einfluss von Vorwissen auf den kognitiven Prozess. Paper presented at the 51. Tagung für experimentelle Psychologie, Jena. von Helversen, B., Mata, R., & Olsson, H. (2008, Nov). The development of task contingent changes in multiple cue judgment tasks with binary and continuous criteria. Paper presented at the 23 rd Meeting of the Brunswik Society, Chicago, USA. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2008, Nov). Models of Quantitative Estimations: Rule-based and Exemplar-Based Processes Compared. Poster presented at the 49 th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, USA. von Helversen, B., Wilke, A., Johnson, T., Schmid, G., & Klapp, B. (2008, Nov). Sequential decision making in a healthy and a clinical depressed sample. Poster presented at the 29 th Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision-making, Chicago, USA. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J.. (2007, Nov). Strategies for estimation: When do estimations follow an exemplar-based versus a rule-based cognitive process? Poster presented at the 28 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Long Beach, USA. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2007, Nov). The mapping model: A cognitive theory for estimation from multiple cues. Poster presented at the 48 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, USA. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2007, July). The mapping model: A cognitive theory for estimation from multiple cues. Poster presented at the 21 st conference for subjective probability, utility and decision making, Warsaw, Poland. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2007, March). Adaptive Selection of Decision Strategies in Children and Young Adults. Paper presented at the 2007 meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, USA. von Helversen, B., & Johnson, T. (2007, Feb). Individual differences in satisficing and strategies for sequential choice. Presentation at the Research Colloquium at the Department for cognitive psychology in the University of Indiana, Bloomington, USA. von Helversen, B., & Johnson, T. (2006, Nov). Individual differences in satisficing and strategies for sequential choice. Paper presented at the 27 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, USA. 7

8 von Helversen, B., Rieskamp, J., & Ianiro, P. (2006, Nov). Sentencing decisions in Germany: which factors matter? Paper presented at the 22 nd Annual Meeting of the Brunswik Society, Houston, USA. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2006, Sept). Das Mapping Modell - wie Schätzungen quantitativer Größen vorhergesagt werden können. Paper presented at the 45 th meeting of the German psychology association, Nürnberg, Germany. von Helversen, B., & Johnson, T. (2006, Sept). Der Einfluss von "Satisficing" und "Maximizing" auf das Entscheidungsverhalten. Paper presented at the conference for innovative approaches to occupational aptitude diagnostic, Hamburg, Germany. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2006, March). Das Mapping Modell Eine Theorie zur Schätzung quantitativer Größen. Paper presented at the 48 th Tagung für experimentelle Psychologie, Mainz, Germany. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2005, Nov). How people estimate a continuous criterion: the ecological selection of estimation strategies. Poster presented at the 26 th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Toronto, Canada. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2005, Nov). How people estimate a continuous criterion: Does the environment influence which strategy is chosen? Paper presented at the 21 st Annual Meeting of the Brunswik Society, Toronto, Canada. von Helversen, B., & Rieskamp, J. (2005, April). Ein Vergleich von kognitiven Modellen zur Vorhersage von Schätzurteilen. Paper presented at the 47 th Tagung für experimentelle Psychologie, Regensburg, Germany. 8

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