2017: Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Thorsten Pachur joined TUM as a professor for behavioral research methods in 2022. His research investigates adaptive cognition, that is, how the psychological mechanisms underlying thinking, reasoning and decision making are shaped by the structure of the environment. A key idea is that successful decision making can arise from the intelligent use of simple strategies—heuristics—that exploit regularities in the environment. Dr. Pachur’s research covers decision making under risk and judgment under uncertainty and he is also interested in the role of intuition and how decision making develops across the lifespan. In his research, Dr. Pachur employs an integrative multi-method approach that includes behavioral experiments, computational modeling, process tracing (e.g., eye tracking), and neuroimaging.
Thorsten Pachur studied psychology at the Free University Berlin and the University of Sussex. He obtained his PhD in psychology from the Free University Berlin in 2006 and his habilitation from the University of Basel in 2012. He has worked as a research scientist at the University of Basel (2006-2012) and as a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (2012-2022).
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