Associate Professor of Psychology Andreas Wilke, a cognitive psychologist, was featured in an interview http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/matinee/gespraech-mit-dr-das-gesetz-der-serie/-/id=660804/did=19037186/nid=660804/1hahuk, yesterday, on Germany's SWR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCdwestrundfunk (Southwest Broadcasting), a regional public broadcasting corporation serving southwest Germany.

During the 12-minute interview on the SWR2 Matinee http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/matinee/swr2-matinee-19-februar-2017-serien/-/id=660804/did=18787644/nid=660804/10cmi5r program, Wilke discussed his research on the "law of the series," also known as a "hot-hand phenomenon."

The hot hand phenomenon refers to the expectation of "streaks" in sequences of hits and misses whose probabilities are, in fact, independent -- such as coin tosses or basketball shots.

Wilke, a native of Germany, pre-recorded the interview in German from the studios of North Country Public Radio.

Listen to the interview at http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/matinee/gespraech-mit-dr-das-geset... .

View a video about Wilke's research at https://youtu.be/weU7Jc6w_1k.