Benjamin Scheibehenne

›› University of Basel - Economic Psychology
›› Missionsstrasse 62 A
4055 Basel, Switzerland
benjamin.scheibehenne (at) unibas.ch
+41.61.267.3531

Research Interests ››

Paper in Press ››

Working Paper ››

Conference Presentations ››

Talks ››

Education Stages ››

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards ››

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Research Interests

 

Cognitive models of choice

Food choice strategies

Consumer decision making

Bayesian Statistics

 

 

 


Paper in Press

 

Pachur, T., & Scheibehenne, B. (2011). Constructing Preference From Experience: The Endowment Effect Reflected in External Information Search. Journal of Experimental Psychology - Learning, Memory, and Cognition. (In Press)

Scheibehenne, B., Wilke, A., & Todd, P. M. (2011). Expectations of clumpy resources influence predictions of sequential events. Evolution & Human Behavior, 32, 326-333.[download]

Scheibehenne, B., Mata, J., & Todd, P. M. (2011). Older but not wiser—Predicting a partner's preferences gets worse with age. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21. 184-191.[download]

Scheibehenne, B., Todd, P. M., & Wansink, B. (2010). Dining in the Dark: The importance of visual cues for food consumption and satiety. Appetite, 55, 710-713.[download]

Scheibehenne, B., Greifeneder, R. & Todd, P. M. (2010). Can There Ever be Too Many Options? A Meta-Analytic Review of Choice Overload. Journal of Consumer Research, 37, 409-425. [download]   [our reply to comment by CBG]

Greifeneder, R., Scheibehenne, B. & Kleber, N.(2010). Less may be more when choosing is difficult: Choice complexity and too much choice. Acta Psychologica, 133, 45-50. [download]

Scheibehenne, B. & Todd, P. M. (2009). Introduction to the Special Issue on Assortment Structure and Choice. Psychology & Marketing, 26, 195-196. [download]

Scheibehenne, B., Greifeneder, R. & Todd, P. M. (2009). What moderates the too-much-choice effect? Psychology & Marketing, 26, 229-253. [download]

Scheibehenne, B. Rieskamp, J. & González-Vallejo, C. (2009). Models of Preferential Choice: Comparing the Decision Field Theory with the Proportional Difference Model. Cognitive Science, 33, 911-939. [download]

Scheibehenne, B. & Helversen, B. (2009). Useful Heuristics. In: K. J. Sunnevåg, T. Williams, & K. Samset (Eds.). Making decisions with scant information - front-end decision-making in major projects (pp.195-212). Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. [link to publisher].

Mata, J. Scheibehenne, B. & Todd, P. (2008). Predicting children’s meal preferences: How much do parents know? Appetite, 50, 367-375. [download]

Scheibehenne, B., Miesler, L., & Todd, P. M. (2007). Fast and frugal food choices. Uncovering individual decision heuristics. Appetite, 49, 578-589. [download]

Scheibehenne, B. and Bröder, A. (2007). Predicting Wimbledon 2005 tennis results by mere player name recognition. International Journal of Forecasting, 23, 415-426. [download]

 

 

 


Working Paper

 

Scheibehenne, B. & Rieskamp, J. (2010). A Bayesian Antidote Against Strategy Sprawl. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [download]

Scheibehenne B., Saller T., Riemann D. & Fahrenberg J. (2000). Well-Being in the Course of the Day, Negative Retrospection-Bias and Personality. Forschungsbericht Nr. 147. Freiburg i. Br.: Psychologisches Institut, Forschungsgruppe Psychophysiologie.

 

 

 


Conference Presentations

 

Scheibehenne, B., Rieskamp, J., & Wagenmakers, E. J. (2011). Testing Adaptive Toolboxes: A Bayesian approach. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgement and Decision Making, Seattle, USA.

Scheibehenne, B. & Todd, P. M. (2011). Genetische Grundlagen des Entscheidungsverhaltens am Beispiel von Variety Seeking. 53. Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Scheibehenne, B., Rieskamp, J. (2010). How many tools to include into an adaptive toolbox? A Bayesian approach. MathPsych, Portland, USA.

Scheibehenne, B., Rieskamp, J. (2010). Ein bayesianischer Ansatz zum Test der 'adaptiven Toolbox'. 52. Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Scheibehenne, B., Mata, J., & Todd, P. M. (2009). Preference prediction accuracy in couples decreases with age. 22nd SPUDM conference, Rovereto, Italy.

Scheibehenne, B., Greifendeder, R. & Todd, P. M. (2009). Can there ever be Too Many Options? Re-Assessing the Effect of Choice Overload. ACR Conference, Pittsburgh, USA.

Scheibehenne, B., Wilke, A., & Todd, P. M. (2009). Misperception of randomness decreases prediction accuracy. 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgement and Decision Making, Boston, USA.

Scheibehenne, B., Todd, P. M., & Greifeneder, R. (2008). Can there ever be Too Many Options? Re-Assessing the Effect of Choice Overload. Talk at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgement and Decision Making, Chicago, USA.

Scheibehenne, B. & Bröder, A. (2008).  Predicting Wimbledon with mere player name recognition. Talk at the 29. International Congress of Psychology in Berlin, Germany.

Scheibehenne, B., Todd, P. M., & Greifeneder, R. (2008). (When) Does the Effect of Too Much Choice Occur? Poster presented at the 9. Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Scheibehenne, B., Rieskamp, J., & González-Vallejo, C. (2007). Cognitive Models of Preferential Choice: Comparing Decision Field Theory with the Proportional Difference Model. Poster presented at the 28. Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Long Beach, USA.

Scheibehenne, B., Rieskamp, J., & González-Vallejo, C. (2007). Kognitive Entscheidungsmodelle: Vergleich der Decision Field Theory mit dem Proportional Difference Model. Talk at the 50th „Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen“ in Marburg, Germany.

Scheibehenne, B. & Todd, P. M. (2007). When does the too-much choice effect occur? Talk presented at the 106. APA Convention in San Francisco, USA.

Scheibehenne, B., Miesler, L., & Todd, P. M. (2006). Simple Heuristics for Food Choice. Talk presented at the 22nd Annual Brunswik Society Meeting in Houston, USA.

Scheibehenne, B. & Todd, P. M. (2006). When does the too-much-choice effect occur? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Houston, USA.

Mata, J., Scheibehenne, B., & Todd, P. M. (2006). Healthfulness as a Cue in School Lunch Choice? A Study with Children and their Parents. Appetite 47(2), 270. Talk presented at the 30th International Food Choice Conference in Birmingham, UK.

Scheibehenne, B., Mata, J., & Todd, P. M: (2006). Are parents able to predict the lunch choices of their children? Appetite, 47(2), 275. Talk presented at the 30th International Food Choice Conference in Birmingham, UK.

Scheibehenne, B. (2006). Der „Too-Much-Choice“ Effekt unter der Lupe: Wann ist weniger mehr? Talk presented at the 48th Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen in Mainz, Germany.

Scheibehenne, B. (2005). Does the too-much choice effect exist? Talk presented at the 9th European Congress of Psychology in Granda, Spain.

Scheibehenne, B, Dieckmann, A., and Todd, P. M. (2005). The more choice the better? Poster presented at the 47th Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen in Regensburg, Germany.

 

 

 

 


Invited Talks

 

2011       Workshop on 'Bayesian Statistics'. 4th Decision Making Workshop for Young Researchers, Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany.

2011       'Die Macht der Marke' (Brands as a cue in consumer choice). Keynote, Handelsschule Basel, Switzerland.

2010       'Im Kopf des Kunden' (Lecture on Consumer Psychology). MANOR AG, Basel, Switzerland. SPUDM Conference, Rovereto, Italy.

2009       Many Options but few Theories - The Effect of Choice Overload. SPUDM Conference, Rovereto, Italy.

2008       (When) does the Effect of Too-Much-Choice exist? Psychology Department, Ohio University, Athens.

2007       Simple Heuristics for (Food) choice. Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zürich.

2007       Food choice, too-much choice and beyond: Past, Future, and present projects. Department for Decision Science, University of Basel, Switzerland.

2006       Does the too-much choice effect exist? SFB 504, Mannheim.

2006       Simple Heuristics for Food Choice. Cornell Food & Brand Lab, Cornell University, New York.

2006       When does the Too-Much-Choice Effect Exist? Cornell Food & Brand Lab, Cornell University, New York.

 

 

 

 


Education Stages

 

now        Research Scientist, University of Basel. Economic Psychology

2008-09      Postdoc, Indiana University, Bloomington. Cognitive Science Program.

2008        PhD Defense, Humboldt-University, Berlin. Thesis title: “The Effect of Too much Choice”

2004-08    PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.

2004        Diploma Psychology, Humboldt-University, Berlin. Minors: Marketing Research and Organizational Behavior.

2001        Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

1999        Vordiplom Psychology Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg.

1996        Abitur, Städtisches Gymnasium Bad Laasphe, Germany.

 

 

 

 

 


Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

 

2011       University of Basel Steven Karger Award for outstanding paper by junior researcher.

2010       Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF): Research grant for testing cognitive process models in a consumer context.

2009       European Association for Decision Making (EADM): De Finetti award for the best PhD paper in the field of JDM.

2007       Society For Judgment and Decision Making: Runner-up award in the student poster competition.

2007       Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): Travel bursary for the 106th APA Convention in San Francisco, USA.

2007       British Feeding and Drinking Group: Travel bursary for the annual meeting of the British Feeding and Drinking Group in Newcastle, UK.

2006       British Feeding and Drinking Group: Travel bursary for the annual meeting of the British Feeding and Drinking Group in Birmingham, UK.

2006       Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): Travel bursary for the annual meeting of the Society for Judgement and Decision Making in Houston, Texas.

2000       Max Kade Foundation: Fellowship to study at the Universtiy of Michigan (including tuition and living costs).

 

 

Last update: February 2012