By Professor Ben Newell

Journal articles

Newell B; Lagnado D, 2003, 'Think-tanks, or think tanks [1]', Psychologist, 16, pp. 176

Newell BR; Weston NJ; Shanks DR, 2003, 'Empirical tests of a fast-and-frugal heuristic: Not everyone "takes-the-best"', Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 91, pp. 82 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0749-5978(02)00525-3

Newell BR; Shanks DR, 2003, 'Take the Best or Look at the Rest? Factors Influencing "One-Reason" Decision Making', Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 29, pp. 53 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.29.1.53

Bright JE; Newell BR, 2003, 'The Subliminal Mere Exposure Effect Does not Generalize to Structurally Related Stimuli', Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 57, pp. 61 - 68

Spehar B; Clifford C; Newell BR; Taylor R, 2003, 'Universal Aesthetic of Fractals', Computers and Graphics - Uk, 27

Bright J; Newell B, 2002, 'Evidence against hyperspecificity in implicit invariant learning', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A - Human Experimental Psychology, 55A, pp. 1109 - 1126

Bright JE; Newell BR, 2002, 'Well past midnight: Calling time on implicit invariant learning?', European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 14, pp. 185 - 205

Newell BR; Bright JE, 2001, 'The relationship between the structural mere exposure effect and the implicit learning process.', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A - Human Experimental Psychology, pp. 1087 - 1104

Conference Papers

Embrey JR; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2022, 'Does Mental Effort Avoidance Depend on the 'Type of Effort'?', in Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cognitive Diversity Cogsci 2022, pp. 2803 - 2809

Osborn Popp PJ; Newell BR; Bartels DM; Gureckis TM, 2022, 'Rule discovery performance unchanged by incentives', in Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cognitive Diversity Cogsci 2022, pp. 840 - 846

Liang G; Newell BR, 2022, 'Trusting algorithms: performance, accuracy, and sticky preferences', in Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cognitive Diversity Cogsci 2022, pp. 708 - 714

Holwerda J; Newell BR, 2021, 'Epistemic and aleatory uncertainty in decisions from experience', in Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Comparative Cognition Animal Minds Cogsci 2021, pp. 1278 - 1284

Liew SX; Newell BR, 2021, 'Invariance of Information Seeking Across Reward Magnitudes', in Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Comparative Cognition Animal Minds Cogsci 2021, pp. 1119 - 1124

Embrey JR; Liew SX; Ghai I; Newell BR, 2021, 'The effect of uncertainty and outcome probability on non-instrumental information seeking', in Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Comparative Cognition Animal Minds Cogsci 2021, pp. 1257 - 1263

Embrey JR; Liew SX; Navarro D; Newell BR, 2020, 'Do you want to know a secret? The role of valence and delay in early information preference', in Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Developing A Mind Learning in Humans Animals and Machines Cogsci 2020, pp. 273 - 279

Holwerda J; Newell BR, 2020, 'What is an extreme outcome in risky choice?', in Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Developing A Mind Learning in Humans Animals and Machines Cogsci 2020, pp. 1842 - 1848

Sloane J; Donkin C; Newell B; Liang G, 2019, 'What’s lagging in our understanding of interruptions? Effects of interruption lags in sequential decision-making.', in Goel AK; Seifert CM; Freksa C (eds.), What’s lagging in our understanding of interruptions? Effects of interruption lags in sequential decision-making., cognitivesciencesociety.org, Montreal, CA, pp. 1063 - 1069, presented at Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, CA, 24 July 2019 - 27 July 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27560

Hotaling JM; Navarro DJ; Newell BR, 2018, 'Skilled Bandits: Learning to Choose in a Reactive World', in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2018, pp. 1827 - 1832

Konstantinidis E; van Ravenzwaaij D; Newell BR, 2017, 'Exploring the decision dynamics of risky intertemporal choice', in Cogsci 2017 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Computational Foundations of Cognition, pp. 694 - 699

Liang G; Konstantinidis E; Szollosi A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2017, 'The impact of descriptions and incentives on the simultaneous underweighting and overestimation of rare events', in Cogsci 2017 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Computational Foundations of Cognition, pp. 736 - 741

Newell BR; Lee MD; Mistry PK, 2016, 'An empirical evaluation of models for how people learn cue search orders.', in Trueswell J; Papafragou A; Grodner D; Mirman D (eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia PA, pp. 211 - 216, presented at 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia PA, 10 August 2016 - 13 August 2016, https://webfiles.uci.edu/mdlee/MistryEtAl2016.pdf

Luckman A; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2015, 'Exploring the concept of utility: Are separate value functions required for risky and inter-temporal choice?', in Noelle DC; Dale R; Warlaumont AS; Yoshimi J; Matlock T; Jennings CD; Maglio PP (eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2015, cognitivesciencesociety.org, California, USA, pp. 1440 - 1445, presented at Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, California, USA, 23 July 2015 - 25 July 2015, https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2015/

Lin D; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2015, 'The exemplar-confusion model: An account of biased probability estimates in decisions from description', in Noelle DC; Dale R; Warlaumont AS; Yoshimi J; Matlock T; Jennings CD; Maglio PP (eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2015, cognitivesciencesociety.org, California, USA, pp. 1374 - 1379, presented at Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, California, USA, 23 July 2015 - 25 July 2015, https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2015/

Hayes BK; Hawkins GE; Newell B, 2015, 'Why do people fail to consider alternative hypotheses in judgments under uncertainty?', in Noelle D; Dale R; Warlaumont A; Yoshimi J; Matlock T; Jennings C; Maglio P (eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society., Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA, USA, pp. 890 - 895, presented at 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA, USA, 22 July 2015 - 25 July 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/25938

Navarro DJ; Newell BR, 2014, 'Information versus reward in a changing world.', in P. Bellow, M. Guarani, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (ed.), Austin TX, pp. 1054 - 1059, presented at Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin TX, 23 July 2014 - 26 July 2014

Hawkins GE; Camilleri AR; Heathcote A; Newell BR, 2014, 'Modeling probability knowledge and choice in decisions from experience', in P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (ed.), Austin TX, pp. 595 - 600, presented at 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin TX, 23 July 2014 - 26 April 2014

Schulze C; van Ravenzwaaij D; Newell BR, 2013, 'Match Me if You Can: How Smart Choices are Fueled by Competition', in Knauff M; Pauen M; Sebanz N; Wachsmuth I (eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany, presented at 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany, 31 July 2013 - 03 August 2013

van Ravenzwaaij D; Newell BR; Moore CP; Lee MD, 2013, 'Using Recognition in Multi-Attribute Decision Environments', in Knauff M; Pauen M; Sebanz N; Wachsmuth I (eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. : Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2013), Austin, TX, presented at COGSCI 2013 : 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. : Cognitive Science Society., Austin, TX, 31 July 2013 - 03 August 2013

Hayes BK; Newell BR; Hawkins G, 2013, 'Causal model and sampling approaches to reducing base rate neglect', in Knauff M; Pauen M; Sebanz N; Wachsmuth I (eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Austin, Texas, USA, pp. 567 - 572, presented at 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany, 31 July 2013 - 03 August 2013, http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2013/papers/0125/paper0125.pdf

Güney Ş; Newell BR, 2013, 'Fairness overrides reputation: The importance of fairness considerations in altruistic cooperation', in Cooperative Minds Social Interaction and Group Dynamics Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2013, pp. 525 - 530

Chai HY; Newell BR, 2013, 'Investing Amid Uncertainty: A Test of the Domain Specific Anchoring Hypothesis', in Cooperative Minds Social Interaction and Group Dynamics Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2013, pp. 1994 - 1999

Newell BR; Kary A; Moore C; Gonzalez C, 2013, 'Managing our Debt: Changing Context Reduces Misunderstanding of Global Warming', in Cooperative Minds Social Interaction and Group Dynamics Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2013, pp. 3139 - 3144

Guney S; Newell BR, 2011, 'The Ellsberg ‘Problem’ and Implicit Assumptions under Ambiguity', in Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2011, pp. 2323 - 2328

Camilleri AR; Newell BR, 2011, 'The Relevance of a Probabilistic Mindset in Risky Choice', in Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2011, pp. 2794 - 2799

Papadopoulos C; Hayes BK; Newell BR, 2009, 'Induction with uncertain categories', in Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, presented at 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2009/papers/43/paper43.pdf

Newell BR; Lee MD, 2009, 'Learning to adapt evidence thresholds in decision making', in Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, presented at 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam

Heffernan M; Newell BR, 2009, 'The dual systems approach to category learning: How do people switch between systems?', in Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, presented at 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam

Griffiths OD; Newell BR, 2009, 'The Impact of Complete and Selective Feedback in Static and Dynamic Multiple-Cue Judgment Tasks', in Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, presented at 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam

Mcdonald F; Newell BR, 2009, 'When a coin toss does not appear random: Causal belief and judgments of randomness', in Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, presented at 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam

Camilleri A; Newell BR, 2009, 'Within-subject Preference Reversals in Description- and Experience-based Choice.', in Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands, presented at 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam

Cranney J; Jones G; Morris SC; Starfield S; Martire KA; Newell BR; Wong K, 2008, 'Critical Reading and Writing (CRW) in First-year Psychology: Mass Screening and Targeted Assistance', in Proceedings of the 43rd Annual APS Conference, HOBART, TASMANIA, presented at 43rd APS annual conference 23 - 27 September 2008, Hobart, Tasmania, HOBART, TASMANIA, 23 September 2008 - 27 September 2008

Broeder A; Newell BR, 2008, 'Influence of learning regime and cue format on decision strategies and exemplar-based judgment', in International Journal of Psychology, Psychology Press, Hove, England, pp. 547 - 547

Taylor RP; Spehar B; Clifford CWG; Newell BR, 2008, 'The Visual Complexity of Pollock’s Dripped Fractals', Springer Nature, pp. 175 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73849-7_20

Hayes BK; Ruthven CM; Newell BR, 2007, 'Inferring properties when categorization is uncertain : A feature-conjunction account', in McNamara D; Tafton G (ed.), 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society, Inc., Wheat Ridge, CO, pp. 1073 - 1078, presented at 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 01 August 2007 - 04 August 2007

Newell BR; Mitchell CJ; Hayes BK, 2005, 'Imagining Low Probability Events', in Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, presented at XXVIIth Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, 21 July 2005 - 23 July 2005

Newell BR; Enkvist T; Juslin P; Olsson H, 2005, 'Intervention in multiple cue judgment: Not always for the better', in XXVIIth Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahway, N.J., presented at XXVIIth Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, 21 July 2005 - 23 July 2005

Conference Abstracts

Calderon S; Mac Giolla E; Ask K; Adler SJ; Agerström J; Akpınar B; Albayrak N; Alparone FR; Amin S; Aquino A; Bachet M; Baisile B; Bausenhart KM; Beylat M; Bialobrzeska O; Bloomfield EC; Boecker L; Bonora M; Brady ST; Branch JG; Brandy NE; Bui KT; Bustos-Ortega M; Caballero A; Cai A; Cantarero K; Cárdenas SA; Carrera P; Chang JT; Chao HF; Christy AG; Cook JA; Dang J; Danielson S; Davis WE; de Boer C; de Groot E; Derrick JL; Dittmar S; Döring T; Douilliez C; Egger M; Escher YA; Evans TR; Fabiani S; Feldman G; Fernandez N; Fischer J; Formanowicz M; Friese M; Fuglestad PT; Gaboriaud A; Gale J; Gamrát R; Genschow O; Ghasemi O; Giacomantonio M; Gieseler K; Greijdanus H; Griffin SM; Gül D; Gunaydin G; Haasova S; Halkias G; Hawk CE; Helfers A; Hernandez CL; Hess YD; Horgos PJ; Hrymchak Y; Huff M; Ildırım E; Jokić B; Julliard Y; Kacˇmár P; Kaup B; Kim H; Kim K; Kingstone A; Koç K; Koppel L; Körner A; Kovácˇová Holevová B; Labor PD; Laforet BD; Lalot F; Lamm L; Laurent SM; Lee STH; Lee YC; Lemay EP; Lin Z; Lin YK; Long JX; Loschelder DD; Makri K; Manley H; Maugeri N; McCarthy RJ; McHugh C, 2026, 'Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction: A Registered Report of Four Tests of Construal-Level Theory', in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Vol. 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25152459251401177

Reports

Bateman H; Campo R; Constable D; Dobrescu I; Goodwin A; Liu J; Newell BR; Thorp S, 2020, 20K now or 50K later? What's driving people's decision to withdraw their super?, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27793, https://www.cepar.edu.au/publications/reports-government-submissions/20k-now-or-50k-later-cepar-industry-report

Theses / Dissertations

Newell BR, 2000, An examination of the processes underlying implicit learning

Creative Written Works

Burke A; Newell B, 2020, Vision for the Anthropocene: Introducing the Anthropocene – and our need to thrive, UNSW Grand Challenges, UNSW, https://www.grandchallenges.unsw.edu.au/article/vision-anthropocene-introducing-anthropocene-and-our-need-thrive

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