- Hufeland Award from the German Foundation for General Medicine (Stiftung Allgemeinmedizin) for Improving Knowledge and Transparency in Medicine (2015)

- Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions shortlisted for the Better Life Award, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (2015)

- GIKA Distinguished Scholar Award in Information and Knowledge Science (2014)

- One of the Top100 Global Thought Leaders, Gottfried Duttweiler Institute (2013, 2012)

- Deutscher Psychologie-Preis (2011

- Outstanding Paper Award 2011, International Journal of Forecasting, for "Fast and Frugal Forecasting" (with D. G. Goldstein) (2011)

- Communicator Award of the DFG (German Research Foundation) and the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities (2011)

- Marsilius Medal, Heidelberg University (2011)

- Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious Shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books (2008)

- Business Book of the Year Prize (Wirtschaftsbuchpreis 2007) for Bauchentscheidungen (German Translation of Gut Feelings), Awarded by the Swiss Handelszeitung (2007)

- Science Book of the Year Prize (Wissenschaftsbuch 2007) for Bauchentscheidungen (German Translation of Gut Feelings), Awarded by Bild der Wissenschaft (2007)

- Reckoning with Risk Shortlisted for the Aventis Prize for Science Books (2003)

- Science Book of the Year Prize (Wissenschaftsbuch 2002) for Einmaleins der Skepsis (German Translation of Calculated Risks), Awarded by Bild der Wissenschaft (2002)

- AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Prize for Behavioral Science Research (1992)

- Academy Stipend, Awarded by the Volkswagen Foundation (1987,1988)

- Association of American Publishers Prize for the Best Book in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (The Probabilistic Revolution, MIT Press) (1987)

- Fritz Thyssen Foundation Prize for One of the Three Best German Journal Articles in the Social Sciences (for “Der eindimensionale Wähler,” Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie) (1984)