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Journal articles
2024, 'Instruction on the Scientific Method Provides (Some) Protection Against Illusions of Causality', Open Mind, 8, pp. 639 - 665, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00141
,2024, 'Uncertainty-Modulated Attentional Capture: Outcome Variance Increases Attentional Priority', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153, pp. 1628 - 1643, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001586
,2023, 'Using Unobserved Causes to Explain Unexpected Outcomes: The Effect of Existing Causal Knowledge on Protection From Extinction by a Hidden Cause', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 50, pp. 1167 - 1185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001306
,2023, 'Switching from Sugar- to Artificially-Sweetened Beverages: A 12-Week Trial', Nutrients, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15092191
,2023, 'Inhibitory Learning with Bidirectional Outcomes: Prevention Learning or Causal Learning in the Opposite Direction?', Journal of Cognition, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.266
,2023, 'Retardation of Acquisition After Conditioned Inhibition and Latent Inhibition Training in Human Causal Learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 49, pp. 75 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000351
,2022, 'Inhibitory Summation as a Form of Generalization', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, pp. 86 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000320
,2022, 'Reversal of Inhibition by No-Modulation Training but Not by Extinction in Human Causal Learning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, pp. 336 - 348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000328
,2021, 'Pseudoscientific health beliefs and the perceived frequency of causal relationships', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, pp. 11196, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111196
,2020, 'Causal illusions in the classroom: how the distribution of student outcomes can promote false instructional beliefs', Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, pp. 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00237-2
,2019, 'Bridging the divide between causal illusions in the laboratory and the real world: the effects of outcome density with a variable continuous outcome', Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4, pp. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-018-0149-9
,2019, 'Motivation to run measured by progressive ratio tests: Failure to support the addiction hypothesis for rats', Learning and Behavior, 47, pp. 131 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-018-0348-8
,Conference Papers
2023, 'How do Participants Interpret Trials from Individual Cells in a Causal Illusion Task?', in Goldwater M; Anggoro FK; Hayes BK; Ong DC (eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney Australia, pp. 534 - 539, presented at 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2023, Sydney Australia, 26 July 2023 - 29 July 2023, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6z13c6d6
,2023, 'Assessing Distributions of Causal Beliefs in the Illusory Causation Task', in Goldwater M; Anggoro FK; Hayes B; Ong DC (eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney Australia, pp. 2164 - 2170, presented at 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2023, Sydney Australia, 26 June 2023 - 29 June 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28742
,2023, 'Learning about Benefits and Side Effects of a Bogus Treatment are Similarly Influenced by the Frequency of the Outcome Occurring', in Goldwater M; Anggoro FK; Hayes B; Ong DC (eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia, pp. 2411 - 2447, presented at 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2023, Sydney, Australia, 26 June 2023 - 29 June 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28744
,2023, 'More means more? Illusory causation between uncorrelated continuous events', in Goldwater M; Anggoro FK; Hayes B; Ong DC (eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia, pp. 3223 - 3229, presented at 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2023, Sydney, Australia, 26 June 2023 - 29 June 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28743
,2018, 'Illusory causation and outcome density effects with a continuous and variable outcome', in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018, pp. 1494 - 1499
,Preprints
2024, Delaying reward feedback does not increase the influence of information on attentional priority in visual search, http://dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/n7qzv
,2024, Effects of instructed and experienced uncertainty on attentional priority, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n62z8
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