Attitudes have been a central topic in social psychology from its early beginnings. But what
exactly are attitudes, where do they come from, and how can they be modified? The overall …

Artificial intelligence and machine learning systems are increasingly replacing human
decision makers in commercial, healthcare, educational and government contexts. But …

Social psychology is facing a major developmental task, which is not primarily one of
achieving larger data samples and stricter significance testing. What is needed, rather, is an …

What I have come to call “meta-cognitive myopia”(MM), using a term once suggested by
Robyn Dawes, is the phenomenon that people are pretty accurate in utilizing even large …

We introduce a heuristic called pseudocontingencies (PCs) as an alternative account of
various stereotyping phenomena. PCs give rise to the expectation that attributes are …

Many experiments have shown that humans and other animals can detect contingency
between events accurately. This learning is used to make predictions and to infer causal …

There is considerable variety in human inference (eg, a doctor inferring the presence of a
disease, a juror inferring the guilt of a defendant, or someone inferring future weight loss …

We carried out an experiment using a conventional causal learning task but extending the
number of learning trials participants were exposed to. Participants in the standard training …

Sampling approaches to judgment and decision making highlight the insight to understand
the cognitive processes within the decision maker. The theoretical role of sampling …

If the distributions of two binary variables are skewed, people erroneously perceive a
correlation even if the variables are actually uncorrelated. Specifically, people perceive a …