Florian Scholten, M.Sc.

• Information Sampling in Social Contexts, Advice Giving
• Social Influences on Learning Dynamics in Brunswikian Environments
• Metacognitive Myopia and Pitfalls of Rationality in Judgment and Decision-making
• Metacognitive Models of Attitude Acquisition and Certainty 
   

• Scholten, F., Schumacher, L., & Kelber, P. (in press). Brunswik's fundamental principle explained: A diffusion lens model of vicarious functioning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
• Scholten, F., & Bröder, A. (in press). The Influence of Irrelevant Social Cues on Dynamic Learning in a Multiple-Cue Probability Learning Task. Social Cognition.
• Scholten, F., Rebholz, T. R., & Hütter, M. (2024). Metacognitive Myopia in Large Language Models. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.05568
• Fiedler, K., & Scholten, F., (2023). To exploit behavioral science in the public interest, it is essential to get rid of distinct myths. In R. J. Sternberg, & W. Niu (Ed.), Critical Thinking Across Disciplines. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Scholten, F., Niese, Z., & Hütter, M. (2025, November). An Attitude Certainty Model [Talk]. SMiP Fall Retreat. Ludwigshafen, Germany.
• Rebholz, T.R., Uphoff, M., & Bernges, C. H. R., Scholten, F. (2025, October). Strategic algorithmic advice taking [Talk]. Fisher AI in Business Conference. Columbus, OH, USA. https://osf.io/vywxh?view_only=cca0b1bc89c342e0abfbc125e5656941
• Scholten, F., Fiedler, K., & Hütter, M. (2025, September). Memory Modification Mechanisms as Metacognitive Strategies for Adaptive Decision Making [Talk]. Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making Conference (SPUDM). Lucca, Italy.
• Scholten, F., Fiedler, K., & Hütter, M. (2025, March). Metacognitive Myopia in the Use of Invalid Advice? An Investigation into Memory- and Judgment-Related Processes [Talk]. In T. R. Rebholz & M. Mayer (Chairs), Numerical assimilation in anchoring, advice taking, and hindsight bias [Symposium]. 67th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP). Frankfurt, Germany.
• Scholten, F. & Hütter, M. (2024, November). Flawed metacognitive regulation in humans and large language models [Talk]. SMiP Fall Retreat. Ludwigshafen, Germany.
• Scholten, F., Schumacher, L., & Kelber, P. (2024, December). A Diffusion Decision Lens To Model Vicarious Functioning [Talk]. 30th International Meeting of the Brunswik Society. London, UK (Online).
• Scholten, F., Schumacher, L., & Kelber, P. (2024, November). Brunswik's Fundamental Principle: Modeling Vicarious Functioning with Superstatistics [Poster]. 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New York City, NY, USA.
• Scholten, F., Fiedler, K., & Hütter, M. (2024, November). Metacognitive myopia in a novel paradigm combining advice taking and directed forgetting [Poster]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM). New York City, NY, USA. https://sjdm.org/presentations/2024-Poster-Scholten-Florian-Metacognition-AdviceTaking-DirectedForget~.pdf
• Scholten, F., Schumacher, L., Kelber, P. & Bröder, A. (2024, September). Brunswik's fundamental principle: Modeling vicarious functioning with superstatistics [Talk]. 53rd Conference of the German Psychological Society (Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs). Vienna, Austria.
• Scholten, F. & Bröder, A. (2024, March). The True Nature of the Congruence-Incongruence Effect and Varying Learning Trajectories in Multiple-Cue Probability Learning [Talk]. 66th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP; Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologinnen). Regensburg, Germany.
• Scholten, F. & Bröder, A. (2023, December). How Different Cue-Saliencies Shape the Dynamics of Multiple-Cue Probability Learning [Talk]. 29th International Meeting of the Brunswik Society. London, UK (Online).

> Scholten, F. & Hütter, M. (2024, November). Flawed metacognitive regulation in humans and large language models [Talk]. Research colloquium. Prof. Dr. Karl Christoph Klauer, Social Psychology and Methodology, Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany.