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Shenghua Luan
Psychology CAS
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing
Language: English, Chinese, German
Decision-Making
Heuristics
Group Behavior
Organizational Management
Cooperation
Risk Perception
Communication
Sports Forecasting
Business Forecasting
Digital Society
Areas of Focus
- Decision Models and Heuristics
- Group Decision and Behavior
- Organizational Management Decision
- Cooperation and Human Cooperative Behavior
- Risk Perception and Communication
- Sports and Business Forecasting
- Human Psychology and Behavior in a Digital Society
Work Experience
- 2018.06 – Present: Researcher, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2017.10 – Present: Visiting Researcher, Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
- 2017.10 – 2018.05: Associate Professor with tenure, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University
- 2011.07 – 2017.09: Researcher, Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
- 2014.07 – 2017.09: Assistant to the Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
- 2006.07 – 2011.06: Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University
- 2004.09 – 2006.06: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1999.08 – 2004.08 PhD in Psychology: University of Florida
- 1995.09 – 1999.07 Bachelor in Psychology: Peking University
Publications
- Smart management: How simple heuristics help leaders make good decisions in a complex world, Reb, J., Luan, S., & Gigerenzer, G., 2023
- Machine learning strategy identification: A paradigm to uncover decision strategies with high fidelity, Fang, J., Schooler, L. J., & Luan, S., 2023
- Smart heuristics for individuals, teams, and organizations, Gigerenzer, G., Reb, J., & Luan, S., 2022
- Does risk perception motivate preventive behavior during a pandemic: A longitudinal study in the United States and China, Li, Y., Luan, S., Li, Y., Wu, J., Li., W., & Hertwig, R., 2022
- Reward, punishment, and prosocial behavior: Recent developments and implications, Wu, J., Luan, S., & Raihani, N., 2022
- The measurements of impulsivity, Huang, Y., Wu, B., & Luan, S., 2022
- Changing emotions in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: A four-wave longitudinal study in the United States and China, Li, Y., Luan, S., Li, Y., & Hertwig, R., 2021
- Public knowledge of stroke and heart attack symptoms in China: A cross-sectional survey, Luan, S., Huang, Y., Yang, Y., & McDowell, M., 2021
- The psychological typhoon eye effect in responses to terrorism, Li, S., Li, J., Yang, S., Wu, J., Chen, J., Ding, Y., Lin, Y., Bai, X., Luan, S., & Zheng, R., 2020
- Improving judgment accuracy by sequential adjustment, Luan, S., Schooler, L. J., & Tan, J. H., 2020
- Political disagreement in the classroom: Testing cultural theory with observational methods, Schoop, A., Verweij, M., Kuhnen, U., & Luan, S., 2020
- Ecological rationality: Fast-and-frugal heuristics for managerial decision making under uncertainty, Luan, S., Reb, J., & Gigerenzer, G., 2019
- Are we truly irrational and almost impossible to educate? Analyzing the scientific evidence behind libertine paternalism, Gigerenzer, G., Luan, S., & Liu, Y., 2019
- The influence of adult and peer role models on children’s and adolescents’ sharing decisions, Ruggeri, A., Luan, S., Keller, M., & Gummerum, M., 2018
- Fast-and-frugal trees as process models of performance-based personnel decisions, Luan, S., & Reb, J., 2017
- A signal-detection approach to modeling forgiveness decisions, Tan, J. H., Luan, S., & Katsikopoulos, K. V., 2017
- Towards theory integration: Threshold model as a link between signal detection theory, fast-and-frugal trees, and evidence accumulation theory, Hozo, I., Djulbegovic, B., Luan, S., Tsalatsanis, A., Gigerenzer, G., 2017
- From perception to preference and on to inference: An approach-avoidance analysis of thresholds, Luan, S., Schooler, L. J., & Gigerenzer, G., 2014
- I disagree, therefore I am: How to test and strengthen cultural versatility, Verweij, M., van Egmond, M., Kuhnen, U., Luan, S., Ney, S., & Schoop, A., 2014
- Making performance judgments, Reb, J., Greguras, G., Luan, S., & Daniels, M., 2013
- The “less-is-more” effects of group decision making, Luan, S., Katsikopoulos, K. V., & Reimer, T., 2012
- When does diversity trump ability (and vice versa) in group decision making? A simulation study, Luan S., Katsikopoulos K. V., & Reimer, T., 2012
- How to test cultural theory: Suggestions for future research, Verweij, M., Luan, S., & Nowacki, M., 2011
- A signal detection analysis of fast-and-frugal trees, Luan, S., Schooler, L. J., & Gigerenzer, G., 2011
Awards
- Outstanding Doctoral Student Research Award, University of Florida
- Second Prize for Teaching Achievement, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Outstanding Research Achievement Award, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
