Dr. Max Ihmels

Forschungsinteressen

• Evaluative Conditioning
• Contingency Learning
• Framing Effects
• Sampling
• Priming

Veröffentlichungen

• Ihmels, M., & Ache, F. (in press). Event based conformity vs. regression to the mean: A comment on Kim and Hommel (2015). Psychological Science.
• Ferreira, M. B., Mata, A., Donkin, C., Sherman, S. J., & Ihmels, M. (2016). Analytic and heuristic processes in the detection and resolution of conflict. Memory & Cognition, 1-14.
• Ihmels, M., Freytag, P., Fiedler, K., & Alexopoulos, T. (2015). Relational integrativity of prime-target pairs moderates congruity effects in evaluative priming. Memory & Cognition, 1-15.
• Krüger, T., Mata, A., & Ihmels, M. (2014). The Presenter’s Paradox Revisited: An Evaluation Mode Account. Journal of Consumer Research, 41(4), online first. doi: 10.1086/678393

Konferenzbeiträge

• Ihmels, M. & Hütter, M. (2018). A Sampling Approach to Evaluative Conditioning. Talk presented at the 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TEAP), Marburg.
• Ihmels, M., & Hütter, M. (2017). Context Sensitivity of Evaluative Conditioning: CS-US Contingencies Predict Evaluative Shifts. Talk presented at the 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada.
• Ihmels, M., & Hütter, M. (2017). An Ecological Conceptualization of Contingencies in Evaluative Conditioning: Attitude Acquisition is Sensitive to Contingencies. Talk presented at the 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TEAP), Heidelberg.
• Ihmels, M., & Hütter, M. (2017). A Sampling Approach to Evaluative Conditioning. Talk presented at the 19th European Social Cognition Network’s Conference (ESCON), Gdansk.
• Ihmels, M., & Hütter, M. (2016). Contingencies in evaluative conditioning: Probabilistic pairings and valence base rates. Talk presented at the 18th European Social Cognition Network’s Conference (ESCON), Lisbon.
• Ihmels, M., & Hütter, M. (2016). Probabilistic Evaluative Conditioning. Talk presented at the 3rd Heidelberg-Tübingen Lab Meeting, Heidelberg.
• Ihmels, M., Kutzner, F., & Fiedler, K. (2016). Density bias & Pseudocontingencies: How Feature-Dimension framing influences contingency learning processes. Talk presented at the 58th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TEAP), Heidelberg.
• Ihmels, M., Kutzner, F., & Fiedler, K. (2015). Density bias & Pseudocontingencies: How Feature-Dimension framing influences contingency learning processes. Best Paper Award Presentation at the 17th European Social Cognition Network's Conference (ESCON), Bensheim.
• Ihmels, M., Kutzner, F., & Fiedler, K. (2015). Attribute framing moderates contingency learning processes. Talk presented at the 1st Heidelberg-Tübingen Lab Meeting, Heidelberg.
• Ihmels, M., Freytag, P., Fiedler, K., & Alexopoulos, T. (2014). When congruity effects vanish - The role of relational integrativity in evaluative priming. Talk presented at the 16th European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference (ESCON2), Louvain-la-Neuve.
• Ihmels, M. & Kutzner, F. (2013). Biased due to rational sampling: Profit-maximizing leads to biases in asymmetric information environments. Talk presented at the 15th European Social Cognition Network's Conference (ESCON), Vilnius.
• Ihmels, M. & Kutzner, F. (2013). Rational and still biased? How profit-maximizing can lead to biased judgments. Talk presented at the 24th Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM) Conference, Barcelona.
• Ihmels, M. & Kutzner, F. (2013). Sampling in asymmetric environments: exploration versus exploitation. Talk presented at the Lisbon-Heidelberg Lab Meeting, Heidelberg.
• Ihmels, M. & Kutzner, F. (2013). Asymmetric information gain produces biases in hedonic information search. Talk presented at the Lab Meeting of the Warwick Business School, Warwick.
• Ihmels, M. & Kutzner, F. (2012). Biases in interested information search - The case of the two-armed bandit. Talk presented at the Heidelberg-Freiburg Lab Meeting, Heidelberg.

Lehre

• Winter 2017/18: Advanced introduction to R (Workshop für DoktorandInnen)
• Sommer 2017: Konsumentenpsychologie (BSc & MSc)
• Winter 2015/16: Wissenschaftliches Schreiben (BSc)
• Sommer 2015: Empirisches Forschungspraktikum (BSc) & Beratungsseminar für Masterarbeiten (MSc)
• Winter 2014/15: Empirisches Forschungspraktikum (BSc) & Konsumentenpsychologie (BSc)
• Sommer 2014: Empirisches Forschungspraktikum (BSc) & Beratungsseminar für Masterarbeiten (MSc)
• Winter 2013/14: Empirisches Forschungspraktikum (BSc) & Beratungsseminar für Masterarbeiten (MSc)
• Sommer 2013: Intragruppenprozesse (BSc) & Beratungsseminar für Masterarbeiten (MSc)
• Winter 2012/13: Konsumentenpsychologie (BSc)

Betreute Abschlussarbeiten (MSc, BSc)

• Eva Blume: Causal Impact Judgments with Multiple Continuous Variables.
• Sascha Kuhn: Illusory Correlations Emerge Through Positive Experience Seeking.
• Katharina Berger: Causal Judgments with Continuous Variables.
• Henna Piracha: Causal Impact Judgments with Continuous Variables and Pictographic Stimulus Material. Peter-Samuel Arslan: The Impact of Regulatory Focus Inversion on Creativity.
• Mario Herberz: A differentiation of bias inducing processes. The asymmetric two-armed bandit in a monetary and a school setting.
• Ekaterina Jussupow: Untersuchung der Pufferwirkung von Geld-Priming.
• Lea Stöger: Is sharing caring? Inwiefern Online-Aktivismus zu Konsistenz, Slacktivism oder Moral Licensing führt.
• Christian Feuerbacher: Wann Mehr Weniger Ist Und Wann Nicht: Feature/Dimension-Framing Als Moderator des Choice Overload Effekts.

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang