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1How something can be said about telling more than we can know: On choice blindness and introspection. Commentary and Authors' replyConsciousness and Cognition 15 (4). 2006.
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How something can be said about Telling More Than We Can Know: Reply to Moore and HaggardConsciousness and Cognition 15 697-699. 2006.
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75The Selective Laziness of ReasoningCognitive Science 40 (8): 2122-2136. 2015.Reasoning research suggests that people use more stringent criteria when they evaluate others' arguments than when they produce arguments themselves. To demonstrate this “selective laziness,” we used a choice blindness manipulation. In two experiments, participants had to produce a series of arguments in response to reasoning problems, and they were then asked to evaluate other people's arguments about the same problems. Unknown to the participants, in one of the trials, they were presented with…Read more
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22Vocal signals only impact speakers’ own emotions when they are self-attributedConsciousness and Cognition 88 (C): 103072. 2021.
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67Magic at the marketplace: Choice blindness for the taste of jam and the smell of teaCognition 117 (1): 54-61. 2010.
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33Letting rationalizations out of the boxBehavioral and Brain Sciences 43. 2020.We are very happy that someone has finally tried to make sense of rationalization. But we are worried about the representational structure assumed by Cushman, particularly the “boxology” belief-desire model depicting the rational planner, and it seems to us he fails to accommodate many of the interpersonal aspects of representational exchange.
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27The Phenomenology of Eye Movement Intentions and their Disruption in Goal-Directed ActionsIn Timothy M. Rogers, Marina Rau, Jerry Zhu & Chuck Kalish (eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Cognitive Science Society. pp. 973-978. 2018.The role of intentions in motor planning is heavily weighted in classical psychological theories, but their role in generating eye movements, and our awareness of these oculomotor intentions, has not been investigated explicitly. In this study, the extent to which we monitor oculomotor intentions, i.e. the intentions to shift one’s gaze towards a specific location, and whether they can be expressed in conscious experience, is investigated. A forced-choice decision task was developed where a pair…Read more
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38Using Choice Blindness to Study Decision Making and IntrospectionIn Peter Gärdenfors & Annika Wallin (eds.), Cognition - A Smorgasbord, . pp. 267-283. 2008.
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20Recomposing the Will : Distributed motivation and computer mediated extrospectionIn Andy Clark, Julian Kiverstein & Tillmann Vierkant (eds.), Decomposing the Will, Oxford University Press Usa. pp. 298-324. 2013.
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135Magic at the marketplace: Choice blindness for the taste of jam and the smell of teaCognition 117 (1): 54-61. 2010.
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6Local structure of technologically modified g-GeS2: resonant Raman and absorption edge spectroscopy combined withab initiocalculationsPhilosophical Magazine 85 (25): 2947-2960. 2005.
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24Introduction to cognition, education, and communication technologyIn Peter Gardenfors, Petter Johansson & N. J. Mahwah (eds.), Cognition, education, and communication technology, Erlbaum Associates. pp. 1--20. 2005.
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19Choice blindness and the non-unitary nature of the mind (Commentary on von Hippel and Trivers)Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (1): 28-29. 2011.
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147How something can be said about telling more than we can know: On choice blindness and introspectionConsciousness and Cognition 15 (4): 673-692. 2006.The legacy of Nisbett and Wilson’s classic article, Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes , is mixed. It is perhaps the most cited article in the recent history of consciousness studies, yet no empirical research program currently exists that continues the work presented in the article. To remedy this, we have introduced an experimental paradigm we call choice blindness [Johansson, P., Hall, L., Sikström, S., & Olsson, A. . Failure to detect mismatches between intenti…Read more
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675Every day, thousands of polls, surveys, and rating scales are employed to elicit the attitudes of humankind. Given the ubiquitous use of these instruments, it seems we ought to have firm answers to what is measured by them, but unfortunately we do not. To help remedy this situation, we present a novel approach to investigate the nature of attitudes. We created a self-transforming paper survey of moral opinions, covering both foundational principles, and current dilemmas hotly debated in the medi…Read more
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62Choice blindness and the non-unitary nature of the human mindBehavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (1): 28-29. 2011.Experiments on choice blindness support von Hippel & Trivers's (VH&T's) conception of the mind as fundamentally divided, but they also highlight a problem for VH&T's idea of non-conscious self-deception: If I try to trick you into believing that I have a certain preference, and the best way is to also trick myself, I might actually end up having that preference, at all levels of processing
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19Cognition, education, and communication technology (edited book)Erlbaum Associates. 2005.Cognition, Education, and Communication Technology presents some of the recent theoretical developments in the cognitive and educational sciences and implications for the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the organization of school and university education. Internationally renowned researchers present theoretical perspectives with proposals for and evaluations of educational practices. Each chapter discusses different aspects of the use of ICT in education, including: *the…Read more
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167This thesis is an empirical and theoretical exploration of the surprising finding that people often may fail to notice dramatic mismatches between what they want and what they get, a phenomenon my collaborators and I have named choice blindness. The thesis consists of four co-authored papers, dealing with different aspects of the phenomenon. Paper one presents an initial set of studies using a computerised choice procedure, and discusses the relation of choice blindness to the parent phenomenon …Read more
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558Political candidates often believe they must focus their campaign efforts on a small number of swing voters open for ideological change. Based on the wisdom of opinion polls, this might seem like a good idea. But do most voters really hold their political attitudes so firmly that they are unreceptive to persuasion? We tested this premise during the most recent general election in Sweden, in which a left- and a right-wing coalition were locked in a close race. We asked our participants to state t…Read more
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7591Failure to detect mismatches between intention and outcome in a simple decision taskScience 310 (5745): 116-119. 2005.A fundamental assumption of theories of decision-making is that we detect mismatches between intention and outcome, adjust our behavior in the face of error, and adapt to changing circumstances. Is this always the case? We investigated the relation between intention, choice, and introspection. Participants made choices between presented face pairs on the basis of attractiveness, while we covertly manipulated the relationship between choice and outcome that they experienced. Participants failed t…Read more
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