Deux cents étudiants du premier cycle universitaire ont participé à des essais répétés de
procédure de choix binaire, pour lesquels l'une des réponses était exacte dans 75% des …

Behavior analysts have developed powerful methodologies to assess central phenomena in
areas that have been dominated by cognitive psychologists. Advances in instructional …

Base-rate neglect is a persistent phenomenon in which subjects do not place sufficient
weight on the probabilities of occurrence of relevant events. Two experiments with college …

Objective: We examined how providing artificially high or low statements about automation
reliability affected expectations, perceptions, and use of automation over time. Background …

In the present paper we empirically investigate the psychometric properties of some of the
most famous statistical and logical cognitive illusions from the “heuristics and biases” …

The thesis that the mind is better prepared to process frequencies—as compared to other
numerical formats—continues to be debated. A recent aspect of this issue is the role of …

Researchers assume that time pressure impairs performance in decision tasks by invoking
heuristic processes. In the present study, the authors inquired (a) whether it was possible in …

Changing the information format from probabilities into frequencies as well as employing
appropriate visualizations such as tree diagrams or 2× 2 tables are important tools that can …

Our research explores predictions that people make in a simple environment consisting of
sequences of a binary signal followed by two possible outcomes. In order to optimize their …

Bias is common in mental-processing tasks as diverse as target recognition, heuristic
estimation and social judgment. This paper holds that cognitive biases stem from the covert …