Optimal go/no-go ratios to maximize false alarms

ME Young, SC Sutherland, AW McCoy - Behavior research methods, 2018 - Springer
Despite the ubiquity of go/no-go tasks in the study of behavioral inhibition, there is a lack of
evidence regarding the impact of key design characteristics, including the go/no-go ratio …

Knowing what to know: Implications of the choice of prior distribution on the behavior of adaptive design optimization

SJ Sloman, DR Cavagnaro, SB Broomell - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
Adaptive design optimization (ADO) is a state-of-the-art technique for experimental design
(Cavagnaro et al.,). ADO dynamically identifies stimuli that, in expectation, yield the most …

Against theory-motivated experimentation in science

M Dubova, A Moskvichev, K Zollman - 2022 - osf.io
Scientists must choose which among many experiments to perform. We study the epistemic
success of experimental choice strategies proposed by philosophers of science or executed …

The problem with categorical thinking by psychologists

ME Young - Behavioural processes, 2016 - Elsevier
Continua abound in the natural world, but the treatment of these continua in the
psychological study of behavior is often categorical. Four practices and their consequences …

Effects of the advisor and environment on requesting and complying with automated advice

SC Sutherland, C Harteveld, ME Young - ACM Transactions on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Given the rapid technological advances in our society and the increase in artificial and
automated advisors with whom we interact on a daily basis, it is becoming increasingly …

Outcome probability versus magnitude: When waiting benefits one at the cost of the other

ME Young, TL Webb, JM Rung, AW McCoy - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Using a continuous impulsivity and risk platform (CIRP) that was constructed using a video
game engine, choice was assessed under conditions in which waiting produced a …

The role of environmental predictability and costs in relying on automation

SC Sutherland, C Harteveld, ME Young - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
There is a growing need to understand how automated decision aids are implemented and
relied upon by users. Past research has focused on factors associated with the user and …

A delay discounting task produces a greater likelihood of waiting than a deferred gratification task

ME Young, AW McCoy - Journal of the experimental analysis of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A first‐person‐shooter video game was adapted for the study of choice between smaller
sooner and larger later outcomes to compare the behavioral patterns produced by deferred …

Magnitude effects for experienced rewards at short delays in the escalating interest task

ME Young, TL Webb, SC Sutherland… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2013 - Springer
A first-person shooter video game was adapted for the study of choice between smaller
sooner and larger later rewards. Participants chose when to fire a weapon that increased in …

Waiting when both certainty and magnitude are increasing: Certainty overshadows magnitude

TL Webb, ME Young - Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In everyday decision making, people often face decisions with outcomes that differ on
multiple dimensions. The trade‐off in preferences between magnitude, temporal proximity …