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Publications since 2005

Kurz-Milcke, E., Gigerenzer, G., & Martignon, L. (in press). Transparency in Risk Communication: Graphical and analog tools. In: T. Tucker et al. (Eds.). Risk Communication. New York Academy.
Kurz-Milcke, E. & Gigerenzer, G. (2007). Heuristic decision making. Marketing, 1(2007), 48-60.
Kurz-Milcke, E. & Pawelec, B. (2007). Gibt es Geschlechterunterschiede beim Erstrechnen? Tagungsband der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik, Berlin.
Kurz-Milcke, E. & Martignon, L. (2007). Stochastische Urnen und Modelle in der Grundschule. Tagungsband der Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik, Berlin.
Kurz-Milcke, E. & Martignon, L. (2006). Lebendige Urnen und ereignisreiche Bäume: Überlegungen und Versuche zu einer Didaktik der Stochastik in der Grundschule. In J. Meyer (Hrsg.). Anregungen zum Stochastikunterricht, Bd. 3. (pp. 181-203). Hildesheim: Franzbecker.
Kurz-Milcke. E. & Martignon, L. (2006). Buchbesprechung: Mathematikstudentinnen und –studenten, Studienerfahrungen und Zukunftsvorsatellungen von B. Curdes, S. Jahnke-Klein, W. Lohfeld und I. Pieper-Seier, 2003. In L. Martignon, C. Niederdrenk-Felgner und R. Vogel (Hrsg.), Mathematik und Gender (pp. 84-90). Hildesheim:Franzbecker.
Martignon, L. & Kurz-Milcke, E. (2006). Educating children in stochastic modeling: Games with stochastic urns amd colored tinker-cubes. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference for Teaching Statistics, Salvador de Bahia, Brasilien.
Martignon, L. & Kurz-Milcke, E. (2006). Bunte Steckwürfel und Kärtchen: Wege zu einer natürlichen, geschlechtersensitiven Stochastik in der Grundschule. In J. Meyer (Hrsg.). Anregungen zum Stochastikunterricht, Bd. 3. (pp. 203-223).Hildesheim: Franzbecker.
Kurz-Milcke, E., Nersessian, N. J., & Newstetter, W. C. (2005). What has history to do with cognition? Interactive methods for studying research laboratories. Journal of Cognition and Culture, Special Issue Cognitive Anthropology of Science, 4(3), 663-700.
Kurz-Milcke, E. (2005). Egon Brunswik. In Dictionary of modern American philosophers. Bristol, U.K.: Thoemmes.
Kurz-Milcke, E., Nersessian, N. J., & Newstetter, W. C. (2005). What has history to do with cognition? Interactive methods for studying research laboratories. Journal of Cognition and Culture, Special Issue Cognitive Anthropology of Science, 4(3), 663-700.
Nersessian, N., Kurz-Milcke, E., Davies, J. (2005). Ubiquitous computing in science and engineering research laboratories: A case study from biomedical engineering, In Gerassimos Kouzelis, Maria Pournari, Michael Stoeppler and Vasilis Tselfes (Eds.), Knowledge in the New Technologies (pp. 167-195). Peter Lang: Berlin. [Available at

Publications 2003-2004

Newstetter, W. C., Kurz-Milcke, E., & Nersessian, N. J. (2004). Cognitive partnerships on the benchtops. Preceedings of The 6th International Conference on Learning Sciences.

Newstetter, W. C., Kurz-Milcke, E., & Nersessian, N. J. (2004). Agentive learning in engineering research labs. Proceedings of the 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.

Kurz-Milcke, E. (2004).The authority of representations. In E. Kurz-Milcke & G. Gigerenzer (Eds.), Experts in science and society (pp. 281-301). New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers.

Kurz-Milcke, E., & Gigerenzer, G. (2004). Experts in science and society. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Kurz, E. M., Gigerenzer, G., & Hoffrage U. (2004). Representations of uncertainty and change: Three case studies with experts. In K. Smith, P. Johnson, & J. Shanteau (Eds.), Psychological investigations of competence in decision making (pp. 188-225). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Nersessian, N. J., Newstetter, W. C., Kurz-Milcke, E. & Davies, J. (2003). A mixed-method approach to studying distributed cognition in evolving environments. Proceedings of the International Conference on Learning Sciences (pp. 307 – 314).

Kurz-Milcke, E. (2003). Review of Ecce Cortex: Beiträge zur Geschichte des modernen Gehirns [Contributions to the history of the modern brain] ed. by Michael Hagner. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 39, 311-312.

Kurz-Milcke, E., & Innis, N. (2003). Egon Brunswik: Student of achievement. In G. A. Kimble & M. Wertheimer (Eds.). Portraits of pioneers in psychology, Vol. 5 (pp. 209-228). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Nersessian, N. J., Kurz-Milcke, E., & Newstetter, W. C. (2003). Research laboratories as evolving distributed cognitive systems. In Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Available at www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/faculty/nersessian/]

Publications 2000 - 2002

Nersessian, N. J., Newstetter, W. C., Kurz-Milcke, E. & Davies, J. (2002). A mixed-method approach to studying distributed cognition in evolving environments. Proceeedings of the 5th International Conference on Learning Sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Available at www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/faculty/nersessian/]
Newstetter, W. C., Nersessian, N. J., Kurz-Milcke, E., & Malone, K. (2002). Laboratory learning, classroom learning: Looking for convergence/divergence in biomedical engineering. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Learning Sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Kurz-Milcke, E., & Martignon, L. (2002). Modeling practices and tradition. In L. Magnani and N. Nersessian (Eds.), Model-based reasoning: Scientific discovery, technological innovation, values (pp. 127-146). New York: Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers.
Kurz, E. M. & Hertwig, R. (2001). To know an experimenter. In K. R. Hammond & T. R. Stewart (Eds.), The essential Brunswik: Beginnings, explications, applications (pp. 180-186) Oxford University Press.
Gigerenzer, G., & Kurz, E. M. (2001). Vicarious functioning reconsidered: A fast and frugal lens model. In K. R. Hammond & T. R. Stewart (Eds.), The essential Brunswik: Beginnings, explications, applications (pp. 342-347). Oxford University Press

Publications 1996 - 1999

Kurz, E. M. (1998). Representation, agency, and disciplinarity: Calculus experts at work. In M. A. Gernsbacher, & S. J. Derry (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Wisconsin, Madison (pp. 585-590). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Kurz, E. M., & Tweney, R. D. (1998). The practice of mathematics and science: From calculus to the clothesline problem. In M. Oaksford & N. Chater (Eds.), Rational models of cognition (pp. 415-438). Oxford University Press.
Kurz, E. M., & Tweney, R. D. (1997). The heretical psychology of Egon Brunswik. In W. G. Bringmann, H. E. Lueck, R. Miller, & C. E. Early (Eds.), A pictorial history of psychology (pp. 221-232). Carol Stream, IL: Quintessence Publishing Co.
Kurz, E. M. (1996). Marginalizing discovery: Karl Popper's intellectual roots in psychology, or how the study of discovery was banned from science studies. Creativity Research Journal, 9, 173-187.

Doherty, M. E., & Kurz, E. M. (1996). Social judgment theory. Thinking & Reasoning, 2, 109-140.

Presentations

[2007, Mai] (eingeladener Vortrag). Zur Konstitution von Objekten und Situationen im Stochastikunterricht der Grundschule. Kolloquium des Fachbereiches Mathematik und Informatik. Universität Kassel. [2007, März]
mit Laura Martignon. Organisation des Minisymposiums Stochastisches und model-basiertes Denken in der Grundschule. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.
[2007, März] mit Laura Martignon. Stochastische Urnen und Modelle in der Grundschule. Jahrestagung
der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.

[2007, März] mit Bärbel Pawelec. Gibt es Geschlechterunterschiede beim Erstrechenen? Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.

[2007, März] (invited presentation). Promoting statistical literacy at early age. 2007 Symposium Early Education and Human Brain Development, Research Institute of Education, University of Chile.

[2006, Oktober] mit Bärbel Pawelec. Geschlechterunterschiede in den Strategien beim Erstrechnen. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Gender und Mathematik in der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik, Nürtingen.

[2006, September] (invited presentation). Communicating risk to patients and the general public. European Conference of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals, Session 6: Designing trials and communicating risk (Chair: C. Sampoia), Brüssel, Belgien.

[2006, Mai] (invited presentation) with G. Gigerenzer. Mental calculators that perceive risk and how we may educate them. Symposium on Strategies for Risk Communication: Evolution, Evidence and Experience. Montauk, Long Island, New York.

[2006, April] Lebendige Urnen und ereignisreiche Bäume: Überlegungen und Versuche zu einer Didaktik der Stochastik in der Primarstufe. Organisiertes Symposium: Stochastisches Denken bei Kindern (organisiert von E. Kurz-Milcke & L. Martignon, Beiträgen von: M. Borovcnik, G. Gigerenzer, M. Hudec]. 7. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt.

[2006, März] with L. Martignon. Fußball, Bäume, Pizzateig: Lebendige Urnen in der Grundschule. 48. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Mainz.

[2005, Dezember] (invited presentation). Model-based cognition and novelty in research settings. Max Planck Institute for Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group (director: U. Witt), Jena.

[2005, November] mit L. Martignon. Lebendige Urnen und ihre Arithmetik in der Grundschule. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Stochastik in der Schule in der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik, Kassel.

[2004, August] Verbinden sich Gender and Mathematik im modernen Sachverhalt der Arbeitsteilung? [Are gender and mathematics related through the modern concept of division of labor?], Tagung des Arbeitskreises Frauen und Mathematik in der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik, Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg.

[2003, August] Discussant for the Symposium ‘Representational, Textual, and Experimental Practices: The Case of Michael Faraday’, Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston.

[2003, July] A framework of contingencies: Agency and its twin concepts. Paper at the Panel ‘20th Century Physics, International Human Rights Legislation, and Conceptions of Human Agency’, Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) Decennial Conference, University of Manchester, England.

[2002, November] Agency and its twin concepts. Intelligent Systems Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

[2002, October] Human-Cell Interaction (H”C”I). Cognitive Science Colloquium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

[2002, February] (invited presentation). Model & equation: Traditions in modeling judgment. Workshop ‘Instrumentalisation in Psychological Research’. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany.

[2001, May] “Tradition” as a metahistorical category in the study of modeling practices. Conference ‘Model-based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, Values’. Pavia, Italy.

[2001, March] Cognitive-historical analysis: An invitation to the psychological laboratory. Workshop on Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology. University of Virginia, Division of Technology, Culture and Communication.

[2000, July] Ratiomorphic or paramorphic: Traditions in regression analysis and beyond. Paper presented at the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Brunswik Society, Berlin, Germany.

[1999, June] (invited presentation). Gewichten, dann Summieren: Die Regressionsanalyse als kognitionspsychologisches Modell. Kolloquium Kognition, Universität-GH Paderborn, Fachbereich Psychologie, Paderborn, Germany.

[1999, January] with Mirko Ganz (invited presentation). Ethnologie und Kognitionswissenschaft im Dialog. Kolloqium der Arbeitsgemeinschaft ‚Kognitive Anthropologie’ in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum der Universität Heidelberg, Germany.

[1998, December] with Laura Martignon. Weighing, then summing: The triumph and tumbling of a modeling practice in psychology. Conference ‘Model-based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery (MBR ’98),’ Pavia, Italy.

[1998, November] (invited presentation). Through the looking glass: The representational practices of calculus experts. Paper presented at the Schloeßmann Seminar (sponsored by the Max Planck Society) The expert in modern societies: Historical and contemporary perspectives. Berlin, Germany.

[1998, September] Representational practices of differential calculus: A historical-cognitive analysis. 41. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Dresden, Germany.

[1998, August] Representation, agency, and disciplinarity: Calculus experts at work. Poster presented at the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, University of Wisconsin, Madison. [Sponsored by a Travel Grant awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft]

[1998, May] Finding oneself mixed into a differential equation: A historical-cognitive approach to the representational practices of differential calculus. International Congress on Discovery and Creativity, University of Gent, Belgium.

[1997, November] (invited presentation). Vicarious functioning: An ambiguous principle. Thirteenth Annual Invitational Meeting of the Brunswik Society, Philadelphia, PA.

[1996, November] with Ryan D. Tweney. Modeling change: Expert use of differential equations. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

[1996, November] Sean Duncan, Elke M. Kurz, Mark Rivardo, & Rosemarie Strasser. Semantic priming in a simple two-layer neural network. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

[1996, July] Ryan D. Tweney & Elke M. Kurz. Toward a rational analysis of scientific thinking. Workshop ‘Rational Models of Cognition’, Warwick University, England.

[1996, February] Ryan D. Tweney & Elke M. Kurz (invited presentation). Agentive analysis of scientific thinking. Cognitive Science Colloquium, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, Atlanta.

[1994, July] (invited presentation). Popper in perspective: The line of intellectual descent from Oswald Külpe to Karl Bühler to Karl Popper as a comment on Popper's dismissal of psychology in science studies. Workshop ‘Can we unravel scientific creativity?’ organized by Arthur I. Miller, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, Germany.

[1994, June]. Participation in the ACT-R Workshop on J. R. Anderson's theory of cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

[1993, November]. Popper versus Quine on psychology and epistemology. Symposium on Metatheory, Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.