Responses occurring during intervals of operant tasks have been subdivided as interim,
facultative, and terminal, depending on the time between response onset and reward …

Transitive inference allows people to infer new relations between previously experienced
premises. It has been hypothesized that this logical thinking relies on a mental schema that …

Organisms may sometimes behave as if a contingency exists between behavior and
consequences, even if this is not actually the case. Killeen (1978) suggested that such …

Growing evidence has shown that attention can be habit-like, unconsciously and persistently
directed toward locations that have frequently contained search targets in the past. The …

Psychological, political, cultural, and sociological factors shape how people form and revise
their beliefs. An established finding across these fields is that people are motivated to hold …

Humans often behave as if unrelated events are causally related. As the name suggests,
such causal illusions imply failures to detect the absence of a causal relation. Taking a …

In the basic verbal task from Piaget, when a relation of the form if A> B and B> C is given, a
logical inference A> C is expected. This process is called transitive inference (TI). The …

In propositional logic, it is stated that “for if A is predicated for every B, and B for every C, A
must necessarily be predicated of every C”. Following a similar logical process, it can be …

People are motivated to maintain their beliefs, often leading them to ignore or reinterpret
information to support what they think. What psychological mechanisms give rise to this …

Machines curate our news narratives to weaponize our minds against us, making
commonsense politics impossible because we no longer share a common baseline of facts …