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Hayes, Brett K.; Liew, Shi Xian; Desai, Saoirse Connor; Navarro, Danielle J.; Wen, Yuhang – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
The samples of evidence we use to make inferences in everyday and formal settings are often subject to selection biases. Two property induction experiments examined group and individual sensitivity to one type of selection bias: sampling frames - causal constraints that only allow certain types of instances to be sampled. Group data from both…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Inferences, Bias, Individual Differences
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Madsen, Jens Koed; Hahn, Ulrike; Pilditch, Toby D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
In this article, we explore how people revise their belief in a hypothesis and the reliability of sources in circumstances where those sources are either independent or are partially dependent because of their shared, common background. Specifically, we examine people's revision of perceived source reliability by comparison with a formal model of…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Reliability, Information Sources, Foreign Countries
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Logacev, Pavel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
A number of studies have found evidence for the so-called "ambiguity advantage," that is, faster processing of ambiguous sentences compared with unambiguous counterparts. While a number of proposals regarding the mechanism underlying this phenomenon have been made, the empirical evidence so far is far from unequivocal. It is compatible…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Accuracy, Ambiguity (Semantics), Sentences
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Hinterecker, Thomas; Knauff, Markus; Johnson-Laird, P. N. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Individuals draw conclusions about possibilities from assertions that make no explicit reference to them. The model theory postulates that assertions such as disjunctions refer to possibilities. Hence, a disjunction of the sort, "A or B or both," where "A" and "B" are sensible clauses, yields mental models of an…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Abstract Reasoning, Inferences, Probability
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Fernández-López, María; Marcet, Ana; Perea, Manuel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
In past decades, researchers have conducted a myriad of masked priming lexical decision experiments aimed at unveiling the early processes underlying lexical access. A relatively overlooked question is whether a masked unrelated wordlike/unwordlike prime influences the processing of the target stimuli. If participants apply to the primes the same…
Descriptors: Priming, Decision Making, Language Processing, Bayesian Statistics
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Golubickis, Marius; Falben, Johanna K.; Cunningham, William A.; Macrae, C. Neil – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Although ownership is acknowledged to exert a potent influence on various aspects of information processing, the origin of these effects remains largely unknown. Based on the demonstration that self-relevance facilitates perceptual judgments (i.e., the self-prioritization effect), here we explored the possibility that ownership enhances object…
Descriptors: Ownership, Self Concept, Stimuli, Responses
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Oh, Hanna; Beck, Jeffrey M.; Zhu, Pingping; Sommer, Marc A.; Ferrari, Silvia; Egner, Tobias – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Much of our real-life decision making is bounded by uncertain information, limitations in cognitive resources, and a lack of time to allocate to the decision process. It is thought that humans overcome these limitations through "satisficing," fast but "good-enough" heuristic decision making that prioritizes some sources of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Cues, Cognitive Processes, Time
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Nosofsky, Robert M.; Donkin, Chris – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
We report an experiment designed to provide a qualitative contrast between knowledge-limited versions of mixed-state and variable-resources (VR) models of visual change detection. The key data pattern is that observers often respond "same" on big-change trials, while simultaneously being able to discriminate between same and small-change…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Probability, Models, Prediction
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Ricker, Timothy J.; Vergauwe, Evie; Hinrichs, Garrett A.; Blume, Christopher L.; Cowan, Nelson – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
There is substantial debate in the field of short-term memory (STM) as to whether the process of active maintenance occurs through memory-trace reactivation or repair. A key difference between these 2 potential mechanisms is that a repair mechanism should lead to recovery of forgotten information. The ability to recover forgotten memories would be…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Maintenance, Short Term Memory, Retention (Psychology)
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Bhatia, Jaydeep-Singh; Oaksford, Mike – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
When directed to ignore evidence of a witness's previous bad character because of a violation of the rules of evidence, are jurors' beliefs still affected? The intuition is that they will be because in everyday argumentation, fallacies, like the ad hominem, are effective argumentative strategies. An ad hominem argument (against the person)…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Logical Thinking, Court Litigation, Bayesian Statistics
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Jenny, Mirjam A.; Rieskamp, Jörg; Nilsson, Håkan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Judging whether multiple events will co-occur is an important aspect of everyday decision making. The underlying probabilities of occurrence are usually unknown and have to be inferred from experience. Using a rigorous, quantitative model comparison, we investigate how people judge the conjunctive probabilities of multiple events to co-occur. In 2…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Decision Making, Probability, Models
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Murphy, Gregory L.; Ross, Brian H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Two experiments investigated how people perform category-based induction for items that have uncertain categorization. Whereas normative considerations suggest that people should consider multiple relevant categories, much past research has argued that people focus on only the most likely category. A new method is introduced in which responses on…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Classification, Inferences, Prediction
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Craig, Stewart; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Little, Daniel R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The assumption in some current theories of probabilistic categorization is that people gradually attenuate their learning in response to unavoidable error. However, existing evidence for this error discounting is sparse and open to alternative interpretations. We report 2 probabilistic-categorization experiments in which we investigated error…
Descriptors: Evidence, Feedback (Response), Associative Learning, Classification
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Hilbig, Benjamin E.; Erdfelder, Edgar; Pohl, Rudiger F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
A new process model of the interplay between memory and judgment processes was recently suggested, assuming that retrieval fluency--that is, the speed with which objects are recognized--will determine inferences concerning such objects in a single-cue fashion. This aspect of the fluency heuristic, an extension of the recognition heuristic, has…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Heuristics, Memory, Goodness of Fit
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Harris, Adam J. L.; Hahn, Ulrike – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
Routinely in day-to-day life, as well as in formal settings such as the courtroom, people must aggregate information they receive from different sources. One intuitively important but underresearched factor in this context is the degree to which the reports from different sources fit together, that is, their coherence. The authors examine a…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Credibility, Bayesian Statistics, Probability