In wars combatants face situations that challenge their moral compass. They may, for example, have to decide whether to pursue military victories to protect their community at the cost of harming innocents. They must also ...

Moral judgments play a major role in everyday social interactions. Due to their relevance for human cognition and behavior, they have been a central object of research for centuries. However, previous studies rarely ...

In our daily lives we frequently seek the advice of multiple persons to make informed judgements and decisions. Often, these opinions are not independent from each other but rather are correlated to some degree. This ...

The dissertation focuses on three aspects of children’s temporal cognition: (1) Children’s capacity to reason about temporal and causal relations between past, present and future events was investigated. In two experiments, ...

Low intensity transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) not only offers the possibility of clinical intervention in neurological disorders and conditions, but also provides us with a powerful research tool for understanding ...

Advice utilization during judgment and decision-making is an integral part of everyday life. The most stable finding in the literature on advice taking is that judges tend to place too much ...

A rhodopsin from Acetabularia acetabulum (AR) is characterized by molecular genetic and electophysiological means. On the basis of a published, incomplete sequence, the whole transcript ...

In my dissertation I investigated the dissociation between the causal model view and the associationistic view of the representation of causal relations in semantic memory. The associationistic ...

Causal models are representations of causal structures and processes in the world. In this thesis two main questions concerning causal models are explored: "What are the differences between different causal models" (normative ...