
Habilitation candidate and researcher
Office: MG 1 / 912
Phone: +49 361 737-2225
E-mail: anna.lang@uni-erfurt.de
Office hours:
On maternity leave & parental leave from June 2022. Office hours by appointment only via email.
For questions regarding teaching and examinations, please contact the secretary's office.
You can reach me by phone in my office or in my Webex-Room:
https://uni-erfurt.webex.com/meet/anna.lang
Positions & Memberships
- Member of the Erfurt Open Science Initiative
- Member of the Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Science
- Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Education
Short CV
since 11/2018 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Social, Organisational and Economic Psychology (100%) & Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Sciences, University of Erfurt, Germany |
2018 | Dr. phil., University of Erfurt, Germany; summa cum laude; Thesis: Children’s probabilistic judgment and decision making. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Tilmann Betsch |
12/2017-10/2018 | Researcher, University of Erfurt, Germany; DFG-Project “Probabilistic Decision Making in Children” (50%), Department of Social, Organisational and Economic Psychology (50%) |
10/2012-11/2017 | Researcher, University of Erfurt, Germany; Department of Social, Organisational and Economic Psychology (50%) |
10/2009-09/2012 | M.Sc., University of Erfurt, Germany; Thesis: The effect of feedback on children’s choices in decisions under risk, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Tilmann Betsch |
10/2006-09/2009 | B.A., University of Erfurt, Germany; Major: Communication Science, Minor: Psychology |
Publications
Request Data | Data for all published studies are available upon request.
Aßmann, L., Betsch, T., Lang, A., & Lindow, S. (2022). When even the smartest fail to prioritise: overuse of information can decrease decision accuracy. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2022.2055560
Lindow, S., & Lang, A. (2021). A lifespan perspective on decision-making: A cross-sectional comparison of middle childhood, young adulthood, and older adulthood. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2268
Lang, A. (2021). Teaching children to take the best. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 72, 101234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2020.101234
Lang, A. & Betsch, T. (2018). Children’s neglect of probabilities in decision making with and without feedback. Frontiers in Psychology 9, Article: 191. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00191
Lindow, S., Lang, A., & Betsch, T. (2017). Holistic information integration in child decision making. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30(5), 1131–1146. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2029
Betsch, T., Lehmann, A., Lindow, S., Lang, A., & Schoemann, M. (2016). Lost in search: (Mal-)adaptation to probabilistic decision environments in children and adults. Developmental Psychology, 52, 311–325. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000077
Betsch, T., Lang, A., Lehmann, A., & Axmann, J. M. (2014). Utilizing probabilities as decision weights in closed and open information boards: A comparison of children and adults. Acta Psychologica, 153, 74–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.09.008
Betsch, T., & Lang, A. (2013). Utilization of probabilistic cues in the presence of irrelevant information: A comparison of risky choice in children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 115, 108–125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.11.003