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Institute of Psychology
Institute of Psychology

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We warmly welcome Maryam Tohidimoghaddam

1 June 2024, by Ugur Turhan

We warmly welcome Maryam and look forward to future collaboration!

" 'How do we make up our minds?' is my main research question. As a postdoc, I will focus on information search in multi-attribute decisions. During my Ph.D., I investigated the influence of the distractor alternative on the decision-making process in multi-alternative choices."

Latest articles

15.04.2025|CMDN
New publication in "Psychological Review"

As humans, we have remarkable abilities to adjust our behavior to new challenges and situations. For example, we often need to master new technologies like smartphones or the internet. These abilities change throughout life, from childhood to young adulthood and older age.

This study explores how...

15.04.2025|CMDN
New publication in "Communications Psychology"

In this paper, we show that increasing the value of an inferior option makes two superior ones look less valuable. Interestingly we show that this distortion emerges as participants learn the rewards of options and persists in later choices, even in choice-sets that omit the inferior option...