Understanding how people explain is a core task for cognitive science. In this opinion article,
we argue that research on explanation would benefit from more engagement with how the …

Hypotheses about decision processes are often formulated qualitatively and remain silent
about the interplay of decision, memorial, and other cognitive processes. At the same time …

Recent research suggests that when people retrieve information from memory they tend to
fixate on the location where the information had appeared during encoding. We used this …

Several theories of cognition distinguish between strategies that differ in the mental effort
that their use requires. But how can the effort—or cognitive costs—associated with a strategy …

People understand the world by constructing explanations for what they observe. It is thus
important to identify the cognitive processes underlying these judgments. According to a …

A rational response to an inconsistent set of propositions is to revise it in a minimal way to
restore consistency. A more important psychological goal is usually to create an explanation …

Abstract Reasoning concerns the cognitive processes by which people draw conclusions
from the salient, meaningful pieces of information that they comprehend or observe …

The goal of the present study was to assess the role of information order in situations of
complex decision making in which participants have to process a large amount of …

In diagnostic reasoning, knowledge about symptoms and their likely causes is retrieved to
generate and update diagnostic hypotheses in memory. By letting participants learn about …

People model other people's mental states in order to understand and predict their behavior.
Sometimes they model what others think about them as well:“He thinks that I intend to stop.” …