David Grüning

David Grüning is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, affiliated with the Adaptive Rationality research group.

His research centers on human decision-making processes, focusing on cognitive mechanisms of rationality under uncertainty. Key interests include behavioral economics, adaptive heuristics, and the psychological foundations of choice behavior, examined through interdisciplinary methodologies combining experimental psychology and computational modeling.

As part of the Adaptive Rationality team, he contributes to projects investigating how cognitive constraints shape optimal decision strategies in real-world environments. The group emphasizes ecologically valid research to bridge theoretical models with practical applications in judgment and choice.