Publications

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Open data and materials: Many of the publications below include exhaustively described item sets and materials (either in the paper or in an online supplement) and several also include the full data set (as supplements). Nonetheless, if materials or data are not available (or if you do not have access), please do not hesitate to email me - I will be happy to provide both.

in press

• Klein, S. A.,Heck, D. W., Reese, G., & Hilbig, B. E. (in press). On the relationship between Openness to Experience, political orientation, and pro-environmental behavior. Personality and Individual Differences. (pdf) (Materials, data and code on OSF)
• Klein, S. A. & Hilbig, B. E. (in press). On the lack of real consequences in consumer choice research - and its consequences. Experimental Psychology. (pdf) (Materials, data and code on OSF)
• Liu, J., Zettler, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (in press). Honesty-Humility. Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. (doi) (pdf)
• Thielmann, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (in press). No gain without pain: The psychological costs of dishonesty. Journal of Economic Psychology. (doi) (pdf) (Materials, data and code on OSF)
• Thielmann, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (in press). Nomological consistency: A comprehensive test of the equivalence of different trait indicators for the same constructs. Journal of Personality. (pdf) (Materials, data and code on OSF)
• Thielmann, I., & Hilbig, B. E., & Zettler, I. (in press). Seeing me, seeing you: Testing competing accounts of assumed similarity in personality judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. (pdf) (Materials, data and code on OSF)

2018

• Böhm, R., Thielmann, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (2018). The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow: Morality also fuels aggression, conflict, and violence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e98. (doi) (pdf)
• De Vries, R. E., Hilbig, B. E., Zettler, I., Dunlop, P. D., Holtrop, D., Lee, K., Asthon, M. C. (2018). Honest people tend to use less—not more—profanity: Comment on Feldman et al.'s (2018) Study 1. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9, 516-520. (doi) (pdf) (Data and code on OSF) (featured in psychologytoday.com)
• Heck, D. W., Thielmann, I., Moshagen, M., & Hilbig, B. E. (2018). Who lies? A large-scale reanalysis linking basic personality traits to unethical decision making. Judgment and Decision Making, 13, 356–371. (full text) (pdf) (Data and code on OSF)
• Hilbig, B. E., Kieslich, P. J., Henninger, F., Thielmann, I., & Zettler, I. (2018). Lead us (not) into temptation: Testing the motivational mechanisms linking Honesty-Humility to cooperation. European Journal of Personality, 32, 116-127. (doi) (pdf) (Materials, raw data, code, and supplementary analyses on OSF)
• Klein, S. A. & Hilbig, B. E. (2018). How virtual nature experiences can promote pro-environmental behavior. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 60, 41-47. (doi) (pdf) (Materials, data and code on OSF)
• Moshagen, M., Hilbig, B. E., & Zettler, I. (2018). The dark core of personality. Psychological Review, 125, 656-688. (doi) (pdf) (D webpage) (featured in Scientific American, Psychology Today, New York Post, BBC and elsewhere )
• Thielmann, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (2018). Daring dishonesty: On the role of sanctions for (un)ethical behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 71-77. (doi) (pdf) (Materials, data and code on OSF)
• Thielmann, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (2018). Is it all about the money? A re-analysis of the link between Honesty-Humility and Dictator Game giving. Journal of Research in Personality, 76, 1-5. (doi) (pdf) (Materials, data and code on OSF)

2017

• Bröder, A. & Hilbig, B. E. (2017). Urteilen und Entscheiden. In J. Müsseler & M. Rieger (Hrsg.). Allgemeine Psychologie. 3. Auflage. (S. 619-659). Heidelberg: Springer. (doi)
• Dunlop, P. D., Bourdage, J. S., de Vries, R. E., Hilbig, B. E., Zettler, I., Ludeke, S. G. (2017). Openness to (reporting) experiences that one never had: Overclaiming as an outcome of the knowledge accumulated through a proclivity for cognitive and aesthetic exploration. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 13, 810-834. (doi) (pdf)
• Heck, D. W., Hilbig, B. E., & Moshagen, M. (2017). From information processing to decisions: Formalizing and comparing psychologically plausible choice models. Cognitive Psychology, 96, 26-40. (doi) (pdf) (Data and code on OSF)
• Henninger, F., Kieslich, P. J., & Hilbig, B. E. (2017). Psynteract: A flexible, cross-platform, open framework for interactive experiments Behavior Research Methods, 49, 1605–1614. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. & Thielmann, I. (2017). Does everyone have a price? On the role of payoff magnitude for ethical decision making. Cognition, 163, 15-25. (doi) (pdf) (Data and materials on OSF)
• Klein, S. A., Hilbig, B. E., & Heck, D. W. (2017). Which is the greater good? A social dilemma paradigm disentangling environmentalism and cooperation. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 53, 40-49. (doi) (pdf) (Materials, data and code on OSF)
• Klein, S. A., Thielmann, I., Hilbig, B. E., & Zettler, I. (2017). Between me and we: The importance of self-profit versus social justifiability for ethical decision making. Judgment and Decision Making, 12, 563-571. (full text with raw data & materials) (pdf)
• Moshagen, M. & Hilbig, B. E. (2017). The statistical analysis of cheating paradigms. Behavior Research Methods, 49, 724–732. (doi) (pdf) (Appendix and simulation R-scripts on OSF)
• Pohl, R. F., Michalkiewicz, M., Erdfelder, E., & Hilbig, B. E., (2017). Use of the recognition heuristic depends on the domain’s recognition validity, not on the recognition validity of selected sets of objects. Memory & Cognition, 45, 776–791. (doi) (pdf)
• Thielmann, I. & Hilbig, B. E. (2017). Should versus want: On the relative contribution of injunctive norms and preferences on trust decisions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, 446-452. (doi) (pdf) (Data and materials on OSF)
• Thielmann, I., Hilbig, B. E., Zettler, I., & Moshagen, M. (2017). On measuring the sixth basic personality dimension: A comparison between HEXACO Honesty-Humility and Big Six Honesty-Propriety. Assessment, 24, 1024-1036. (doi) (pdf) (Data and materials on OSF)
• Thielmann, I., Zimmermann, J., Leising, D., & Hilbig, B. E. (2017). Seeing is knowing: On the predictive accuracy of self- and informant reports for prosocial and moral behaviors. European Journal of Personality, 31, 404–418. (doi) (pdf) (Data and materials on OSF)

2016

• Glöckner, A., Hilbig, B. E., Henninger, F, & Fiedler, S. (2016). The reversed Description-Experience gap: disentangling sources of presentation format effects in risky choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 486–508. (doi) (pdf) (Data and more on OSF)
• Hepp, J., Hilbig, B. E., Kieslich, P. J., Herzog, J., Lis, S., Schmahl, C., & Niedtfeld, I. (2016). Borderline personality and the detection of angry faces. PLoS ONE, 11(3): e0152947. (doi) (pdf) (Complete datasets)
• Hilbig, B. E. (2016). Reaction time effects in lab- versus web-based research: Experimental evidence. Behavior Research Methods, 48, 1718–1724. (doi) (pdf) (Online Supplement (raw data))
• Hilbig, B. E., Moshagen, M., Zettler, I. (2016). Prediction consistency: A test of the equivalence assumption across different indicators of the same construct. European Journal of Personality, 30, 637–647. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E., Thielmann, I., Klein, S. A., Henninger, F. (2016). The two faces of cooperation: On the unique role of HEXACO Agreeableness for forgiveness versus retaliation. Journal of Research in Personality, 64, 69-78. (doi) (pdf) (Data and materials on OSF)
• Pohl, R. F., Erdfelder, E., Michalkiewicz, M., Castela, C, & Hilbig, B. E., (2016). The limited use of the fluency heuristic: Converging evidence across different procedures. Memory & Cognition, 44, 1114–1126. (doi) (pdf)
• Thielmann, I., Heck, D. W., Hilbig, B. E. (2016). Anonymity and incentives: An investigation of techniques to reduce socially desirable responding in the Trust Game. Judgment and Decision Making, 11, 527–536. (full text with raw data & materials) (pdf)
• Zettler, I., Lang, J. W. B., Hülsheger, U. R., & Hilbig, B. E. (2016). Dissociating indifferent, directional, and extreme responding in personality data: Applying the three-process model to self- and observer reports. Journal of Personality, 84, 461–472. (doi) (pdf)

2015

• Dinger, F. C., Dickhäuser, O., Hilbig, B. E., Müller, E., Steinmayr, R., & Wirthwein, L. (2015). From basic personality to motivation: Relating the HEXACO Factors to achievement goals. Learning and Individual Differences, 40, 1-8. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E., Michalkiewicz, M., Castela, M., Pohl, R. F., & Erdfelder, E. (2015). Whatever the cost? Information integration in memory-based inferences depends on cognitive effort. Memory & Cognition, 43, 659-671. (doi) (pdf) (Online Supplement (matrials, models, and raw data))
• Hilbig, B. E. & Moshagen, M. (2015). A predominance of self-identified Democrats is no evidence of a leftward bias. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, 28-29. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E., Moshagen, M., & Zettler (2015). Truth will out: Linking personality, morality, and honesty through indirect questioning. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 140-147. (doi) (pdf) (Supplement (materials and additional data) on OSF)
• Hilbig, B. E., Thielmann, I., Hepp, J., Klein, S. A., & Zettler, I. (2015). From personality to altruistic behavior (and back): Evidence from a double-blind dictator game. Journal of Research in Personality, 55, 46-50. (doi) (pdf) (Online Supplement)
• Hilbig, B. E., Thielmann, I., Wührl, J. & Zettler, I. (2015). From Honesty-Humility to fair behavior - benevolence or a (blind) fairness norm? Personality and Individual Differences, 80, 91-95. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. & Zettler, I. (2015). When the cat's away, some mice will play: A basic trait account of dishonest behavior Journal of Research in Personality, 57, 72–88. (doi) (pdf)
• Kieslich, P. J. & Hilbig, B. E. (2015). Judging competing theoretical accounts by their empirical content and parsimony: Reply to Myrseth and Wollbrant (2015). Judgment and Decision Making, 10, 280-283. (full text)
• Thielmann, I., Böhm, R., & Hilbig, B. E. (2015). Different Games for Different Motives: Comment on Haesevoets, Folmer, and Van Hiel (2015). European Journal of Personality, 29, 506–508. (doi) (pdf)
• Thielmann, I. & Hilbig, B. E. (2015). The traits one can trust: Dissecting reciprocity and kindness as determinants of trustworthy behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1523-1536. (doi) (pdf) (Data and materials on OSF)
• Thielmann, I. & Hilbig, B. E. (2015). Trust: An integrative review from a person-situation perspective. Review of General Psychology, 19(3), 249–277. (doi) (pdf)
• Zettler, I., Hilbig, B. E., Moshagen, M. & De Vries, R. (2015). Dishonest responding or true virtue? A behavioural test of Impression Management. Personality and Individual Differences, 81, 107-111. (doi) (pdf)
• Zettler, I. & Hilbig, B. E. (2015). Honesty and Humility. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.), Vol. 11 (pp. 169-174). Oxford: Elsevier. (doi) (pdf)

2014

• Castela, M., Kellen, D., Erdfelder, E., & Hilbig, B. E. (2014). The impact of subjective recognition experiences on recognition heuristic use: A multinomial processing tree approach. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 1131-1138. (full text) (pdf) (Online Supplement) (Raw data on OSF)
• Glöckner, A., Hilbig, B. E., & Jekel, M. (2014). What is adaptive about adaptive decision making? A parallel constraint satisfaction account. Cognition, 133, 641-666. (doi) (pdf)
• Hepp, J., Hilbig, B. E., Moshagen, M., Zettler, I., Schmahl, C., & Niedtfeld, I. (2014). Active versus reactive cooperativeness in Borderline Psychopathology: A dissection based on the HEXACO model of personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 56, 19-23. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. (2014). On the role of recognition in consumer choice: A model comparison. Judgment and Decision Making, 9, 51-57. (full text) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E., Glöckner, A., & Zettler, I. (2014). Personality and pro-social behavior: Linking basic traits and social value orientations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 107, 529–539. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E., Heydasch, T., & Zettler, I. (2014). To boast or not to boast: Testing the humility aspect of the Honesty-Humility factor. Personality and Individual Differences, 69, 12-16. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. & Moshagen, M. (2014). Generalized outcome-based strategy classification: Comparing deterministic and probabilistic choice models. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 1431-1443. (doi) (pdf) (Online Supplement (models and raw data)) (Erratum)
• Kieslich, P. J. & Hilbig, B. E. (2014). Cognitive conflict in social dilemmas: A mouse tracking analysis. Judgment and Decision Making, 9, 510-522. (full text) (pdf) (raw data)
• Moshagen, M., Hilbig, B. E., & Erdfelder, E., & Moritz, A. (2014). An experimental validation method for questioning techniques that assess sensitive issues. Experimental Psychology, 61, 48-54. (doi) (pdf)
• Moshagen, M., Hilbig, B. E., & Zettler, I. (2014). Faktorenstruktur, psychometrische Eigenschaften und Messinvarianz der deutschsprachigen Version des 60-Item HEXACO Persönlichkeitsinventars [Factor structure, psychometric properties, and measurement invariance of the German-language version of the 60-item HEXACO personality inventory]. Diagnostica, 60, 86-97. (doi) (pdf)
• Thielmann, I. & Hilbig, B. E. (2014). Trust in me, trust in you: A social projection account of the link between personality, cooperativeness, and trustworthiness expectations. Journal of Research in Personality, 50, 61-65. (doi) (pdf)
• Thielmann, I., Hilbig, B. E., & Niedtfeld, I. (2014). Willing to give but not to forgive: Borderline personality features and cooperative behavior. Journal of Personality Disorders, 28, 778–795. (doi) (pdf)
• De Vries, R. E., Zettler, I., & Hilbig, B. E. (2014). Rethinking trait conceptions of social desirability scales: Impression management as an expression of Honesty-Humility. Assessment, 21, 286-299. (doi) (pdf)

2013

• Hilbig, B. E., & Hessler, C. M. (2013). What lies beneath: How the distance between truth and lie drives dishonesty. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 263-266. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E., Zettler, I., Leist, F., & Heydasch, T. (2013). It takes two: Honesty-Humility and Agreeableness differentially predict active versus reactive cooperation. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 598-603. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E., Zettler, I., Moshagen, M., & Heydasch, T. (2013). Tracing the path from personality – via cooperativeness – to conservation. European Journal of Personality, 27, 319-327. (doi) (pdf)
• Pohl, R. F., Erdfelder, E., Hilbig, B. E., Liebke, L., & Stahlberg, D. (2013). Effort reduction after self-control depletion: The role of cognitive resources in use of simple heuristics. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25, 267-276. (doi) (pdf)
• Söllner, A., Bröder, A., & Hilbig, B. E. (2013). Deliberation versus automaticity in decision making: Which presentation format features facilitate automatic decision making? Judgment and Decision Making, 8, 278–298. (full text) (pdf) (Raw data etc)
• Zettler, I., Hilbig, B. E., & Heydasch, T. (2013). Two sides of one coin: Honesty–Humility and situational factors mutually shape social dilemma decision making. Journal of Research in Personality, 47, 286-295. (doi) (pdf)

2012

• Glöckner, A., Fiedler, S., Hochman, G., Ayal, S., & Hilbig, B. E. (2012). Processing differences between descriptions and experience: a comparative analysis using eye-tracking and physiological measures. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:173. (full text) (pdf)
• Glöckner, A., & Hilbig, B. E. (2012). Risk is relative: Risk aversion yields cooperation rather than defection in cooperation-friendly environments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 546-553. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. (2012). Good things don‘t come easy (to mind): Explaining framing effects in judgments of truth. Experimental Psychology, 59, 38-46. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. (2012). Heuristics: The Foundations of Adaptive Behavior. Gerd Gigerenzer, Ralph Hertwig, Thorsten Pachur (Eds.). Oxford University Press (2011). 872 pp., Hardcover, € 73.60, ISBN: 978-0199744282. Journal of Economic Psychology, 33, 223–225. [invited book review]. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. (2012). How framing statistical statements affects subjective veracity: Validation and application of a multinomial model for judgments of truth. Cognition, 125, 37-48. (doi) (pdf)
(Full item set)
• Hilbig, B. E., Erdfelder, E., & Pohl, R. F. (2012). A matter of time: Antecedents of one-reason decision making based on recognition. Acta Psychologica, 141, 9-16. (doi) (pdf) (Raw data on OSF)
• Hilbig, B. E., Zettler, I., & Heydasch, T. (2012). Personality, punishment, and public-goods: Strategic shifts towards cooperation as a matter of dispositional Honesty-Humility. European Journal of Personality, 26, 245-254. (doi) (pdf)
• Pohl, R. F. & Hilbig, B. E. (2012). The role of subjective linear orders in probabilistic inferences. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19,1178-1186. (doi) (pdf)

2011

• Glöckner, A., & Hilbig, B. E. (2011). Editorial: Methodology in judgment and decision making research. Judgment and Decision Making, 6, 705-710. (full text) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E., Erdfelder, E., & Pohl, R. F. (2011). Fluent, fast, and frugal? A formal model evaluation of the interplay between memory, fluency, and comparative judgments.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 827-839. (doi) (pdf)
(Raw data on OSF)
• Hilbig, B. E. & Glöckner, A. (2011). Yes, they can! Appropriate weighting of small probabilities as a function of information acquisition. Acta Psychologica, 138, 390-396. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E., & Richter, T. (2011). Homo heuristicus outnumbered: Comment on Gigerenzer and Brighton (2009). Topics in Cognitive Science, 3, 187-196. (doi) (pdf)
• Moshagen, M. & Hilbig, B. E. (2011). Methodological notes on model comparisons and strategy classification: A falsificationist proposition. Judgment and Decision Making, 6, 814-820. (full text) (pdf)
• Moshagen, M., Hilbig, B. E., & Musch, J. (2011). Defection in the dark? A randomized-response investigation of cooperativeness in social dilemma games. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 638–644. (doi) (pdf)
• Zettler, I., Friedrich, N., & Hilbig, B. E. (2011). Dissecting work commitment: The role of Machiavellianism. Career Development International, 16, 20-35. (doi) (pdf)
• Zettler, I., Hilbig, B. E., & Haubrich, J. (2011). Altruism at the ballots: Predicting political attitudes and behavior. Journal of Research in Personality, 45, 130-133. (doi) (pdf)

2010

• Hilbig, B. E. (2010). Precise models deserve precise measures: a methodological dissection. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 272-284. (full text) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. (2010). Reconsidering "evidence" for fast-and-frugal heuristics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 923-930. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E., Erdfelder, E., & Pohl, R. F. (2010). One-reason decision-making unveiled: A measurement model of the recognition heuristic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 36(1), 123-134. (doi) (pdf) (Raw data (Exp 6 and 7a) on OSF)
• Hilbig, B. E., Scholl, S. G., & Pohl, R. F. (2010). Think or blink – is the recognition heuristic an "intuitive" strategy? Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 300-309. (full text) (pdf) (Raw data on OSF)
• Zettler, I. & Hilbig, B. E. (2010). Attitudes of the selfless: Explaining political orientation with altruism. Personality and Individual Differences, 48(3), 338-342. (doi) (pdf)
• Zettler, I. & Hilbig, B. E. (2010). Honesty-Humility and a person-situation-interaction at work. European Journal of Personality, 24, 569-582. (doi) (pdf) (Winner of the Wiley-Blackwell 2010 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the European Journal of Personality)

2009

• Erdfelder, E., Auer, T.-S., Hilbig, B. E., Aßfalg, A., Moshagen, M., & Nadarevic, L. (2009) Multinomial processing tree models: A review of the literature. Zeitschrift für Psychologie - Journal of Psychology 217(3), 108-124. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. (2009). Sad, thus true: Negativity bias in judgments of truth. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(4), 983-986. (doi) (pdf) (featured in miller-mccune.com and thestar.com)
• Hilbig, B. E. & Pohl, R. F. (2009). Ignorance- vs. evidence-based decision making: A decision time analysis of the recognition heuristic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(5), 1296-1305. (doi) (pdf) (Raw data on OSF)
• Hilbig, B. E., Pohl, R. F. & Bröder, A. (2009). Criterion knowledge: A moderator of using the recognition heuristic? Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 22(5), 510-522. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. & Zettler, I. (2009). Pillars of cooperation: Honesty-Humility, social value orientations, and economic behavior. Journal of Research in Personality, 43(3), 516-519. (doi) (pdf)
• Massen, C., Vaterrodt-Plünnecke, B., Krings, L. & Hilbig, B. E. (2009). Effects of instruction on learners’ ability to generate an effective pathway in the method of loci. Memory, 17(7), 724-731. (doi) (pdf)

2008

• Hilbig, B. E. (2008). Individual differences in fast-and-frugal decision making: neuroticism and the recognition heuristic. Journal of Research in Personality, 42(6), 1641-1645. (doi) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. (2008). One-reason decision making in risky choice? A closer look at the priority heuristic. Judgment and Decision Making, 3(6), 457-462. (full text) (pdf)
• Hilbig, B. E. & Pohl, R. F. (2008). Recognizing users of the recognition heuristic. Experimental Psychology, 55(6), 394-401. (doi) (pdf) (Raw data (Exp 5) on OSF)