Why can large bonuses make CEOs less productive? How can confusing directions actually help us? Why is revenge so important to us? Why is there such a big difference between what we think will make us happy and what really makes us happy?

In Predictably Irrational, social scientist Dan Ariely revealed the multiple biases that lead us into making unwise decisions. Now, in The Upside of Irrationality, he exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives. Focusing on our behaviors at work and in relationships, he offers new insights and eye-opening truths about what really motivates us on the job, how one unwise action can become a long-term habit, how we learn to love the ones we’re with, and more.

An illustration of mine was used for the cover of the German paperback edition (Wer denken will, muss fühlen – Die heimliche Macht der Unvernunft, Knaur Verlag). It shows a little guy carrying a sun balloon. >MORE

These are a few of the images I made for Psychologie Heute to illustrate the topic of will power.

Check out this illo that I made on mind control for Psychologie Heute. It shows a bunch of people that are interconnected through head wires.

This mixed-media artwork was created for an article on mobbing that was published in today’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper from Berlin. It shows a young woman in the center who finds herself getting ostracized and mocked by her peers.

These are some of my latest mixed-media installments that I created for Psychologie Heute, Germany’s leading psychology magazine. The article was on heroic behavior in times of egalitarianism.

Here’s an art I did for Psychologie Heute magazine, Germany’s largest psychology-related monthly. It was created on the topic of cleaning up a messie’s life.

Here is some mixed-media art that I have come up with for Psychologie Heute, Germany’s leading psychology magazine. The article was on minds that cannot stop pondering. >MORE PSYCHOLOGY

These are my mixed-media illustrations that I created for Psychologie Heute, Germany’s leading psychology magazine. The article was on introspection and analysed the phenomenon of people that tend to separate themselves from the crowds – not because they are shy but because they choose to stay alone.

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TOP: Cocktail Party + Close-up View
BELOW: Noisy People with Megaphones

TOP: Diver Underwater
BELOW: Inner View

I created a full-page illustrated infographic for DIE ZEIT, Germany’s largest weekly newspaper. The page provides an outline of the four main fields in psychotherapy which have evolved over the years – from Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis and Wilhelm Reich’s humanistic psychology up to the streams of systemic psychology and behavioral psychology.

My artwork takes a whimsical approach, and incorporates a large number of fun illustrations. >more

From the doctor’s summing up Ivan Ilych concluded that things were bad, but that for the doctor, and perhaps for everybody else, it was a matter of indifference, though for him it was bad.

And this conclusion struck him painfully, arousing in him a great feeling of pity for himself and of bitterness towards the doctor’s indifference to a matter of such importance.

- Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

This small collection of cartoon-style b/w illustrations is on the topic of learning and knowing – and knowing that one knows nothing.