When trying to remember verbal information from memory, people look at spatial locations
that have been associated with visual stimuli during encoding, even when the visual stimuli …

An intuition of ambivalence in cognition is particularly strong for complex decisions, for
which the merits and demerits of different options are roughly equal but hard to compare. We …

The retrieval of past instances stored in memory can guide inferential choices and
judgments. Yet, little process-level evidence exists that would allow a similar conclusion for …

Memory plays a major but underexplored role in judgment and decision making (JDM).
Studying eye movements—especially how people look at empty spatial locations when …

Sequential abductive reasoning is the process of finding the best explanation for a set of
observations. Explanations can be multicausal and require the retrieval of previously found …

Abductive reasoning is the process of finding the best explanation for a set of observations.
As the number of possible observations and corresponding explanations may be very high …

During memory retrieval, people tend to look back at locations where the information was
previously presented, known as the Looking at Nothing effect (LAN). Scholz et al.[2018] …

When making judgments (eg, about the quality of job candidates) decision makers should
ignore salient, but unrepresentative information (eg, the person's name). However, research …

Explanations are crucial to our cognitive lives because they inform our understanding of the
world, structure our concepts, and guide our actions. Yet the processes that underlie …

A detailed understanding of the cognitive process underlying diagnostic reasoning in
medical experts is currently lacking. While high-level theories like hypothetico-deductive …