•  145
    Affective forecasting: Why can't people predict their emotions?
    with Alice Pott and Najat Elwakili
    Thinking and Reasoning 13 (1). 2007.
    Two studies explore the frequently reported finding that affective forecasts are too extreme. In the first study, driving test candidates forecast the emotional consequences of failing. Test failers overestimated the duration of their disappointment. Greater previous experience of this emotional event did not lead to any greater accuracy of the forecasts, suggesting that learning about one's own emotions is difficult. Failers' self-assessed chances of passing were lower a week after the test tha…Read more
  •  64
    Do the birds and bees need cognitive reform?
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (5): 666-667. 2000.
    Stanovich & West argue that their observed positive correlations between performance of reasoning tasks and intelligence strengthen the standing of normative rules for determining rationality. I question this argument. Violations of normative rules by cognitively humble creatures in their natural environments are more of a problem for normative rules than for the creatures.
  •  36
    Inappropriate judgements: Slips, mistakes or violations?
    with Nigel Harvey
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (1): 12-12. 1994.
  •  33
    In the literature, the nature of the relationships between memory processes and summary evaluations is still a debate. According to some theoretical approaches (e.g., “two-memory hypothesis”; Anderson, 1989) retrospective evaluations are based on the impression formed while attending to the to-be-assessed stimuli(on-line judgment) – no functional dependence between information retrieval and judgment is implied. Conversely, several theories entail that judgment must depend, at least in part, on m…Read more
  •  17
    Cognitive Predictors of Precautionary Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    with Volker Thoma, Leonardo Weiss-Cohen, and Petra Filkuková
    Frontiers in Psychology 12 589800. 2021.
    The attempts to mitigate the unprecedented health, economic, and social disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are largely dependent on establishing compliance to behavioral guidelines and rules that reduce the risk of infection. Here, by conducting an online survey that tested participants’ knowledge about the disease and measured demographic, attitudinal, and cognitive variables, we identify predictors of self-reported social distancing and hygiene behavior. To investigate the cognitive p…Read more
  •  10
    Are People Experiencing the ‘Pains of Imprisonment’ During the COVID-19 Lockdown?
    with Mandeep K. Dhami and Leonardo Weiss-Cohen
    Frontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
  •  3
    Now I like it, now I don’t: Delay effects and retrospective judgment
    with Aldrovandi Silvio, Marie Poirier, Kusev Petko, and Daniel Heussen
  • Actor-observer differences in judgmental probability forecasting of control response efficacy
    with N. Harvey
    Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 28 (6): 523-523. 1990.