Rastislav Rehák, Ph.D.
Research Focus:
I study cognitive processes within behavioral economics, using theory (formal modeling) and experiments. My research focuses on judgment and decision-making, information and time use, with a prominent application to moral reasoning and climate-related behavior. I welcome interdisciplinary collaboration, especially with researchers in cognitive and environmental sciences.
Academic Career:
I am a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics (Bonn) in the team of Axel Ockenfels.
I obtained my PhD at CERGE-EI (Prague) under the supervision of Filip Matějka.
Publications:
- Rastislav Rehák, Bayesian Second-Guessing: An Optimal Stopping Theory of Post-Decisional Confidence [2026, under review]
- Melisa Kurtis, Axel Ockenfels, Rastislav Rehák, Willing to Act, Failing to Impact: Psychological and Social Drivers of Voluntary Climate Action [2025, R&R @ Economic Journal]
- Sona Badalyan, Darya Korlyakova, Rastislav Rehák, Disclosure Discrimination: An Experiment Focusing on Communication in the Hiring Process [2025, under review]
- Rastislav Rehák, Maxim Senkov. Bayesian P(h)ooling: Optimal Pooling Structure in Quadratic Bayesian Persuasion [2026, R&R @ Journal of Mathematical Economics]
- Large-scale collaboration lead by Blanco, E., Holzknecht, A., Huber, J., Kirchler, M., and Schwaiger, R. #ManyDesignsCarbon: Do behavioral interventions increase support for carbon pricing? [2026, R&R @ Nature Human Behavior]
- Barbora Rehák Bučková, Charlotte Fraza, Rastislav Rehák, Marián Kolenič, Christian Beckmann, Filip Španiel, Andre Marquand, Jaroslav Hlinka. Using Normative Models Pre-Trained on Cross-Sectional Data to Evaluate Intra-Individual Longitudinal Changes in Neuroimaging Data [eLife (2025) 13:RP95823]