As reflected in the amount of controversy, few areas in psychology have undergone such
dramatic conceptual changes in the past decade as the emerging science of heuristics …

Repetition has been shown to increase subjective truth ratings of trivia statements. This truth
effect can be measured in two ways:(a) as the increase in subjective truth from the first to the …

" More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always
better, and optimization is best." More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our …

Over the last 10 years advances in the new field of neuromarketing have yielded a host of
findings which defy common stereotypes about consumer behavior. Reason and emotions …

How do people monitor the correctness of their answers? A self-consistency model is
proposed for the process underlying confidence judgments and their accuracy. In answering …

Although widely studied in other domains, relatively little is known about the metacognitive
processes that monitor and control behaviour during reasoning and decision-making. In this …

Simple Heuristics in a Social World invites readers to discover the simple heuristics that
people use to navigate the complexities and surprises of environments populated with …

Statistical illiteracy can have an enormously negative impact on decision making. This
volume of collected papers brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and …

In this introductory chapter, I describe what constitutes the domain of cognitive illusions and
how cognitive illusions can be characterized. Much debate has evolved around the classical …

How do people select among different strategies to accomplish a given task? Across
disciplines, the strategy selection problem represents a major challenge. We propose a …