Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
  Dr. Florian Kutzner
Raum: zur Zeit an der Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 24 7652 8484
Fax: + 49 (0) 6221 547745
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 Publications

  • Vogel, T., Kutzner, F., Fiedler, K. & , Freytag, P. (in press). How majorities become associated with rare behaviors - Ecological correlations in stereotype formation. Social Cognition.

  • Fiedler, K., Kutzner, F., & Krueger, J. (in press) The Long Way From Alpha-Control to Validity Proper: Problems with a Shortsighted False-Positive Debate. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

  • Hansen, J., Kutzner, F., & Waenke, M. (in press). Money and Thinking: Reminders of Money Trigger Abstract Construals and Shape Consumer Judgments. Journal of Consumer Research.

  • Kutzner, F., Vogel, T., Freytag, P., & Fiedler, K. (2011). A robust classic: Illusory correlations are maintained under extended operant learning. Experimental Psychology, 58(6), 443-453. (download)

  • Kutzner, F., Vogel, T., Freytag, P. & Fiedler, K. (2011). Contingency inferences driven by base rates: Valid by sampling. Judgment and Decision Making, 6(3), 212-221. (download)

  • Vogel, T., Kutzner, F., Freytag, P., & Fiedler, K. (2010). Exploiting attractiveness in persuasion: Senders’ implicit theories about receivers’ processing motivation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(6), 830-842.

  • Kutzner, F. (2009). Pseudocontingencies  - rule based and associative. Dissertation. University of Heidelberg. (download)

  • Kutzner, F., Freytag, P., Vogel, T., & Fiedler, K. (2008). Base-rate neglect based on base-rates in experience-based contingency learning. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 90, 23-32. (download)

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 Forthcoming

  • Kutzner, F., Förderer, S., & Plessner, H. (revise resubmit). Regulatory fit improves putting in expert golfers. Sport and Exercise Performance Psychology.

  • Freytag, P., Vogel, T., Kutzner, F., & Fiedler, K. (revise resubmit). Pseudocontingencies and Category-Based Memory Codes. Memory & Cognition.

  • Beier, S., Kutzner, F., & Hütter, M. (submitted). Choose a juice! The effect of multiple response options and harmful intentions on aggressive responses in a modified Hot Sauce Paradigm. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

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 Theses (Diploma, MSc, BA)

  • Macht abstrakt denken konservativ? Können Menschen sich ändern? Der Einfluss von abstraktem Denken auf politische Einstellungen, Self Theories und Stereotype
  • Sind Kinder schlauer als Erwachsene? Altersunterschiede bei Kontingenz-Heuristiken (Details)
  • €€€€ What does money do to us? €€€€€ Die Effekte von Geld-Primes. (Details)

Supervised Theses (Diplom & Master):

  • Max Ihmels: Information search in an asymmetric two-armed bandit problem
  • Natalie Zimmer: The effects of money priming on consumer decision making
  • Natalie DeJong: The effectiveness of using lay-persuasion theories
  • Johannes Dabisch: Pseudocontingencies in taste conditioning
  • Marius Prohl: Die hypothesengenerierende Funktion von Pseudokontingenzen
  • Hans Alves: Changing Illusory Correlations
  • Celina Kacperski: Regulatory Fit Effects in Table Tennis (Award-Winner: Weinert Gedächtnis Preis)
  • Marlene Heilig: Decision strategies in children: Base rates vs contingencies
  • Marius Mengel: Distance and the Importance of Product Features
  • Sabine Förderer: Regulatory Fit Effects in Expert Golfers (revise resubmit). Sport and Exercise Performance Psychology.

 

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 Teaching

  • Spring term 2012: Consulting Seminar for Masters Theses
  • Spring term 2012: Models of Decision Making (MSc)
  • Spring term 2012: Consumer Psychology (BA)
  • Winter term 2011: Consumer Psychology (MSc)
  • Winter term 2011: Intergroup Psychology & Acculturation (Lit: Grundlagen & Referate) (BA)
  • Winter term 2010: Judgment and Decision Making - Theories of Contingency Inference (MSc)
  • Winter term 2010: Intergroup Psychology & Acculturation (BA)
  • Winter term 2009 / Summerterm 2010: Empirisches Praktikum (BA)
  • Spring term 2009: Critical Reading - Die haben herausgefunden dass...
  • Summer term 2008: Intergroup Psychology & Acculturation
  • Winter term 2007/2008: Consumer Psychology
  • Summer term 2007: Intergroup Psychology & Acculturation
  • Winter term 2006/2007: Übung zur Vorlesung Sozialpsychologie
  • Summer term 2006: Empirisches Praktikum

 

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 Memberships

  • Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
  • European Association for Social Psychology (EASP)
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 Conference Contributions

  • Kutzner, F., Vogel, T., Freytag, P., & Fiedler, K. (2011). Ein Robuster Klassiker: Illusorische Korrelationen. Talk presented at the 13th Confrence of the Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (German social psychology conference, FGSP), Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Hamburg.
  • Kutzner, F., & Fiedler, K. (2011). Illusory "Correlations" without Correlations: A New Look on an Old Phenomenon. Talk presented at the 16th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP), Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Kutzner, F., Vogel, T., & Fiedler, K. (2010). All Bavarians (Stil) Wear Lederhosen - Illusroy Correlations Maintained. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Las Vegas.
  • Kutzner, F., Vogel, T., Freytag, P., & Fiedler, K. (2009). Pseudocontingencies in Stereotype Formation: Extending Illusory Correlations. Talk presented at the 12th Confrence of the Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (German social psychology conference, FGSP), Université du Luxemburg.

  • Kutzner, F., & Fiedler, K. (2009) Bias and accuracy in contingency judgments: The joint role of predictor and outcome density. Talk presented at the 22nd Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM) Conference, Rovereto

  • Kutzner, F., Fiedler, K., Freytag, P., & Vogel, T. (2008) Base-rate neglect based on base-rates in experience-based contingency learning. Talk presented at the International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Berlin.

  • Kutzner, F. (2008) What do you expect from this usual suspect? The usual behavior. The alignment heuristic in stereotypic judgments.Talk presented at the 10th European Social Cognition Network’s Conference (ESCON), University of Pisa.

  • Freytag, P., Kutzner, F., & Bluemke, M. (2008) Not that pseudo after all: Pseudocontingencies in operant conditioning and priming, and why we should use them.Talk presented at the 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP), Opatija, Croatia.

  • Kutzner, F., Freytag, P., Vogel, T., & Fiedler, K. (2008). Base-Rate Respect – Contingencies Inferred from Rare and Frequent. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), University of Albuquerque.

  • Kutzner, F., Freytag, P., Vogel, T., & Fiedler, K. (2007). Base-rate neglect based on base rates. Talk presented at the 9th European Social Cognition Network’s Conference (ESCON), University of Brno.

  • Kutzner, F. et al. (2007). Base-rate neglect based on base rates. Talk presented at the 11th Confrence of the Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (German social psychology conference, FGSP), University of Freiburg.

  • Kutzner, F., Geschke, D., Mummendey, A., & Kessler; T. (2006). When migrants want what they shouldn’t: Acculturation attitudes and attributions of members of the receiving society as determinants of intergroup relations. Talk presented at the 45th Congress of the German Psychological Association (DGPS), University of Nürnberg.

  • Kutzner, F., Plessner, H., & O’Hare, D. (2003). Continue flying or abort? Intuitive processes in aviation decisions. Poster presented at the 8th Confrence of the Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (German social psychology conference, FGSP), University of Heidelberg.

  • Kutzner, F., & Wänke, M. (2001) Assimilation in spite of contrast: Preference shifts in consumer judgments. Poster presented at the 43rd Congress of Experimental Psychology (TEAP), University of Bayreuth.

 

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 Research Interests

  • Contingency Judgment & Decision Making in Social Contexts
  • Abstractness in thinking and reasoning
  • Consumer Research
  • Psychological Acculturation
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 Academic Career

  • 2012 to present Post-doctoral researcher at Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK
  • 2009 - 2012 Post-doctoral researcher at University Heidelberg
  • 2006 - 2009 PhD student at University Heidelberg / SFB 504 University Mannheim
  • 2003 - 2006 Graduate Studies at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
  • 2004 Research Fellow at the International Graduate College Jena (IGC)
  • 2003 Graduate Studies at Universität Hamburg
  • 2002 - 2003 Graduate Studies at Otago University, New Zealand
  • 1999 - 2002 Undergraduate Studies at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
  • 1997 Abitur in Munich
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 Ad-hoc reviewer for

  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Social Cognition
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie / Social Psychology
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 Conference / Workshop Organisation

  • 2008 Doctoral Workshop on "Rethinking core themes of social psychology: Are people really as irrational and situation-dependent as they are portrayed to be?" provided by Joachim Krueger
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 University Self-Administration

  • Member of Fakultätsrat (University Self-Administration)
  • Committee for the Development of the University Personnel Development Program
  • Committee for Master's Program Development ("Organizational Behavior and Adaptive Cognition")
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 In the public eye

 

http://wm-2010.t-online.de/vuvuzela-stress-je-mehr-laerm-desto-mehr-erregung-/id_41973318/index

http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/md/presse/medien/100818_geld-effekt__kutzner_.mp3

(Tobias Vogel) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sm7ry