Thorsten Pachur
@thorstenpachur.bsky.social
Cognitive psychologist and decision scientist. Risk, attention, adaptive cognition, computational modeling, process tracing, research methods. https://www.msl.mgt.tum.de/en/brm/home/
🚨 Do older adults make emotional decisions differently than younger adults? Our new article, led by @colleencfrank.bsky.social, in Psychology and Aging finds that the 'affect gap' in risky choice manifests similarly in younger and older adults. (1/3)
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August 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚨 Do older adults make emotional decisions differently than younger adults? Our new article, led by @colleencfrank.bsky.social, in Psychology and Aging finds that the 'affect gap' in risky choice manifests similarly in younger and older adults. (1/3)
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3/3 Specifically, those who focused less on task-specific trade-offs (duration in TTO, probability in SG) showed larger gaps in their health state valuations. This highlights how attentional focus shapes preferences and suggests that shifting attention could influence health utility assessments.
July 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
3/3 Specifically, those who focused less on task-specific trade-offs (duration in TTO, probability in SG) showed larger gaps in their health state valuations. This highlights how attentional focus shapes preferences and suggests that shifting attention could influence health utility assessments.
💥 How bad is it to live with diabetes or be in a wheelchair? In a new article (Journal of Health Economics) led by Stefan Lipman, we link the puzzling gap between time trade-off and standard gamble valuations of health states to attention during preference construction.
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🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
July 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
💥 How bad is it to live with diabetes or be in a wheelchair? In a new article (Journal of Health Economics) led by Stefan Lipman, we link the puzzling gap between time trade-off and standard gamble valuations of health states to attention during preference construction.
1/3
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
1/3
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
Congratulations to @linushof.bsky.social from our lab @tum.de for being the runner-up at this year’s #teap2025 poster competition! His research shows that people search adaptively in decisions from experience.
March 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Congratulations to @linushof.bsky.social from our lab @tum.de for being the runner-up at this year’s #teap2025 poster competition! His research shows that people search adaptively in decisions from experience.