Alex Rieger, M.Sc.

Alex Rieger, B.Sc.
Contact
TU Braunschweig - Institute of Psychology Methodology and Biopsychology (IPMB) Spielmannstraße 19 - 38106 Braunschweig

Academic Background

2020 Bachelor of Science in Psychology (TU Braunschweig)

Title of the bachelor thesis: Formale Modellierung in den Verhaltenswissenschaften am Beispiel operanter Verhaltensselektion.

2022 Master of Science in Psychologie (TU Braunschweig)

Title of the master thesis: A conceptual replication and theoretical extension of a naturalistic experiment for the horizontal- vertical illusion effect by means of a formal mathematical model.

Research Interests

Theory-based and formal models in the behavioral sciences

General theoretical approaches to the description and explanation of behavior

Publications

Lange, F., & Rieger, A. (2025). A minute can only be spent once: Validating a behavioral paradigm to study societally relevant time allocation conflicts. Behavior Research Methods, 57(9), 246.

Rieger, A., Hartung, A., de Haan, J. (2025). Mate Value lies in the Fitness Function of the Beholder. In: Hammerl, M., Schwarz, S., Willführ, K.P. (eds) Evolutionary Social Sciences. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-48028-8_21

Schlender, T., Rieger, A., & Eggert, F. (2024). Grocery Shopping Under Simplified Marginal Value Theorem Predictions. Human Nature, 35(4), 451-476.

Rieger, A., Hartung, A., & de Haan, J. (2024). Der Partnerwert liegt in der Fitnessfunktion des Betrachters. In Evolutionäre Sozialwissenschaften: Ein Rundgang (pp. 365-376).  Springer.

Rieger, A., Hartung, A. & de Haan, J. (2021). Der Partnerwert liegt in der Fitnessfunktion des Betrachters. Poster presented at the MVE conference, Braunschweig.