Deceptive claims surround us, embedded in fake news, advertisements, political
propaganda, and rumors. How do people know what to believe? Truth judgments reflect …

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 …

In a study conducted across an urban school district, we tested a classroom-based
intervention in which students were taught online evaluation strategies drawn from research …

The Internet has democratized access to information but in so doing has opened the
floodgates to misinformation, fake news, and rank propaganda masquerading as …

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 …

Simple statistical forecasting rules, which are usually simplifications of classical models,
have been shown to make better predictions than more complex rules, especially when the …

This paper uses police data on a sample of 41 serial burglars committed in the city of St
John's, Canada and surrounding areas, to examine individual differences in distances …

For several decades, the orthodox economics approach to understanding choice under risk
has been to assume that each individual person maximizes some sort of personal utility …

Geographic profilers have access to a repertoire of strategies for predicting a serial
offender's home location. These strategies range in complexity—some involve more …

Big data analytics employs algorithms to uncover people's preferences and values, and
support their decision making. A central assumption of big data analytics is that it can …