Dr. Sophie Scharf

Research Staff

on parental leave

University of Mannheim
Chair of Experimental Psychology Lab
L 13, 17 – Room 507
68161 Mannheim

Phone: +49 621 181-3389
E-mail: sophie.scharfuni-mannheim.de

Consultation hour(s):
by appointment

Credit: Tsvetina Tsonkova

Research interests

Selected publications
Frenken, M., Hemmerich, W., Izydorczyk, D., Scharf, S. E. & Imhoff, R. (2022). Cognitive processes behind the shooter bias: Dissecting response bias, motor preparation and information accumulation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 98(Article 104230), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104230
Scharf, S. E., Jekel, M. & Glöckner, A. (2022). Awareness of option attractiveness increases the attraction search effect: Modelling the awareness effect in an extended iCodes model. Decision, 9(1), 43–49. https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000162
Bröder, A., Scharf, S. E., Jekel, M., Glöckner, A. & Franke, N. (2021). Salience effects in information acquisition: No evidence for a top-down coherence influence. Memory & Cognition, 49(November 2021), 1537–1554. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01188-9
Scharf, S. E., Wiegelmann, M. & Bröder, A. (2019). Information search in everyday decisions: The generalizability of the attraction search effect. Judgment and Decision Making, 14(4), 488–512.