Christin Schulze

Christin Schulze serves as Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Adjunct Associate Professor at The Arctic University of Norway since 2019. Her work bridges cognitive psychology and decision science, focusing on how humans develop and execute choices under uncertainty across individual and social contexts.

Education

• Ph.D. Psychology, University of New South Wales (2015)
• M.Sc. Psychology (Dipl. Psych.), Friedrich-Schiller University Jena (2011)

Research Focus: Schulze leads the “Development of Decision Making” research area within the Adaptive Rationality group. Her investigations span experience-based decisions under uncertainty, childhood development of decision strategies, cognitive modeling of judgment, and social/group decision dynamics. She employs experimental paradigms and computational models to dissect how environmental structure, cognitive constraints, and social interactions shape choices from infancy through adulthood.

Publication Trends: Her 2015-2021 corpus reveals consistent exploration of probability matching phenomena, social sampling mechanisms, and description-experience gaps. Key contributions demonstrate how group contexts eliminate individual decision biases (Schulze & Newell, 2016) and how bounded rationality governs social information acquisition (Schulze et al., 2021), bridging cognitive, developmental, and social psychology.

Scientific Awards

Advising & Grants: While specific students and funding sources aren’t detailed in available materials, her leadership of a Max Planck research area implies significant mentorship responsibilities and grant management for decision-science projects.

Research Infrastructure: Schulze heads the “Development of Decision Making” unit within the Adaptive Rationality department at Max Planck, directing a team investigating cognitive architectures of choice through behavioral experiments and mathematical modeling.