Research Interests: I am interested in understanding how individuals make conscious and unconscious decisions. Among others, my research addresses the following questions: How does the cognitive system processes and integrates choice relevant information such as goals, values and probabilistic cues? How do people make qualitative and quantitative judgments? How do people form attitudes towards objects and behavioural option? How does experience influences preference formation and routinization? What are the processes behind intuitive decisions? How do automatic and deliberate processes help us adapting to changing environments?

Keywords: Judgment and Decision Making, Information Integration, Attitude and Preference Formation, Experience, Routines and Intuition, Deliberation and Automaticity in Adaptive Decision Making.

Research Interests: My research interests address social and institutional influences on the career development of individuals under the perspective of self-regulation. The main focus is on antecedents and consequences of career exploration across the life-span and in several contexts, such as, school, family, and conselling settings. Current PhD theses examine the structure of children´s knowledge about prerequisites of individual career development, the cooperation of parents and teachers in school-based career instruction, the mutual influence of career-related activities of adolescents and their parents during the transition from school to university.

Keywords: Career Development in Childhood, Career Decision Making as Interpersonal Regulation Process, Settings of Career Counseling and Decision-Making, Career Exploration Across the Life-Span.