People spontaneously create counterfactual alternatives to reality when they think “if only” or
“what if” and imagine how the past could have been different. The mind computes …

Dual-system models of reasoning attribute errors of judgment to two failures: the automatic
operations of a 'System 1'generate a faulty intuition, which the controlled operations of a …

Popular dual-process models of thinking have long conceived intuition and deliberation as
two qualitatively different processes. Single-process-model proponents claim that the …

The idea of one's memory" filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in
general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a" full …

This paper is about the nature of working memory capacity (WMC), and it will address the
nature of WMC limitations, their eVects on higher order cognitive tasks, their relationship to …

Counterfactuals are thoughts about alternatives to past events, that is, thoughts of what
might have been. This article provides an updated account of the functional theory of …

Dual-process theories of the mind are ubiquitous in psychology. A central principle of these
theories is that behavior is determined by the interplay of automatic and controlled …

Working memory capacity is an important psychological construct, and many real-world
phenomena are strongly associated with individual differences in working memory …

The author has thought about working memory, not always by that name, since 1969 and
has conducted research on its infant and child development since the same year that the …

Research in the development of teacher cognition and teaching performance in K–12
classrooms has identified consistent challenges and patterns of behavior that are congruent …