Uncertainty is an intrinsic part of life; most events, affairs, and questions are uncertain. A key
problem in behavioral sciences is how the mind copes with uncertain information. Quantum …

Classical (Bayesian) probability (CP) theory has led to an influential research tradition for
modeling cognitive processes. Cognitive scientists have been trained to work with CP …

Much of our understanding of human thinking is based on probabilistic models. This
innovative book by Jerome R. Busemeyer and Peter D. Bruza argues that, actually, the …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

Combining meaning, memory, and development, the perennially popular topic of intuition
can be approached in a new way. Fuzzy-trace theory integrates these topics by …

Crime, smoking, drug use, alcoholism, reckless driving, and many other unhealthy patterns
of behavior that play out over a lifetime often debut during adolescence. Avoiding risks or …

Processing language requires the retrieval of concepts from memory in response to an
ongoing stream of information. This retrieval is facilitated if one can infer the gist of a …

From Piaget to the present, traditional and dual-process theories have predicted
improvement in reasoning from childhood to adulthood, and improvement has been …

A key problem confronting theories of false memory is that false-memory phenomena are so
diverse: Some are characteristic of controlled laboratory tasks, others of everyday life; some …

Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields
central to human welfare, such as medicine and law. Although many important conclusions …