Rationalization is rational

F Cushman - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020 - cambridge.org
Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the
beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own …

Choice-supportive misremembering: A new taxonomy and review

M Lind, M Visentini, T Mäntylä, F Del Missier - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Although the literature on the influence of memory on decisions is well developed, research
on the effects of decision making on memory is rather sparse and scattered. Choice …

Justice is less blind, and less legalistic, than we thought: Evidence from an experiment with real judges

H Spamann, L Klöhn - The journal of legal studies, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
We experimentally investigate the determinants of judicial decisions in a setting resembling
real-world judicial decision making. We gave US federal judges 55 minutes to adjudicate a …

Toward a General Framework of Biased Reasoning: Coherence-Based Reasoning

D Simon, SJ Read - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A considerable amount of experimental research has been devoted to uncovering biased
forms of reasoning. Notwithstanding the richness and overall empirical soundness of the …

The impact of pretrial publicity on mock juror and jury verdicts: A meta-analysis.

LA Hoetger, DJ Devine, EM Brank… - Law and human …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: We updated and extended a meta-analysis on pretrial publicity (PTP) conducted
by Steblay et al.(1999) by reexamining the effect of negative (antidefendant) PTP on …

The role of physicians' first impressions in the diagnosis of possible cancers without alarm symptoms

O Kostopoulou, M Sirota, T Round… - Medical Decision …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background. First impressions are thought to exert a disproportionate influence on
subsequent judgments; however, their role in medical diagnosis has not been systematically …

[HTML][HTML] Ambivalence in decision making: An eye tracking study

A Rosner, I Basieva, A Barque-Duran, A Glöckner… - Cognitive …, 2022 - Elsevier
An intuition of ambivalence in cognition is particularly strong for complex decisions, for
which the merits and demerits of different options are roughly equal but hard to compare. We …

Using machine learning to evaluate and enhance models of probabilistic inference.

A Glöckner, M Jekel, D Lisovoj - Decision, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Probabilistic inference constitutes a class of choice tasks in which individuals rely on
probabilistic cues to choose the option that is best on a given criterion. We apply a machine …

A dual process model for paleopathological diagnosis

SA Mays - International Journal of Paleopathology, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives This paper aims to provide an explicit theoretical model for the cognitive
processes involved in paleopathological diagnosis. Methods The approach adopted is a …

Uncertain Waters: Participatory groundwater modelling in Chicago's suburbs

DH Mannix, TL Birkenholtz, DB Abrams, C Cullen - Geoforum, 2022 - Elsevier
Groundwater exists in underground aquifers and is largely hidden and intangible to water
users. As such, groundwater models are one of the main vehicles through which …