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Interference effects of choice on confidence: Quantum characteristics of evidence accumulation

January 1, 2015 Peter D. Kvam, Timothy J. Pleskac, Shuli Yu, and Jerome R. Busemeyer

Decision-making relies on a process of evidence accumulation which generates support for possible hypotheses. Models of this process derived from…

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Posted in: Confidence, Decision Making, Evidence Accumulation Filed under: publication

Dynamics of postdecisional processing of confidence

Shuli Yu, Timothy J. Pleskac, and Matthew D. Zeigenfuse

Most cognitive theories assume that confidence and choice happen simultaneously and are based on the same information. The 3 studies…

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Posted in: Confidence, Decision Making, Evidence Accumulation Filed under: publication

Rapid decisions from experience

January 1, 2014 Matthew D. Zeigenfuse, Timothy J. Pleskac, and Taosheng Liu

In many everyday decisions, people quickly integrate noisy samples of information to form a preference among alternatives that offer uncertain…

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Posted in: Decision Making, Preferential Choice, Time Pressure Filed under: publication

Ecologically rational choice and the structure of the environment.

Ralph Hertwig, and Timothy J. Pleskac

In life, risk is reward and vice versa. Unfortunately, the big rewards people desire are relatively unlikely to occur. This…

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Posted in: Ambiguity Aversion, Choice Environment, Risk-Reward Filed under: publication

Comparability Effects in Probability Judgments

January 1, 2012 Timothy J. Pleskac

Psychological theories of subjective probability judgments assume that accumulated evidence (support) mediates the relation between the description of a to-be-judged…

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Posted in: Independence Violations, Probability Judgments, Similarity Filed under: publication

A detection model of college withdrawal

January 1, 2011 Timothy J. Pleskac, Jessica Keeney, Stephanie M. Merritt, Neal Schmitt, and Frederick L. Oswald

Many students during their college careers consider withdrawing from their respective college or university. Understanding why some students decide to…

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Posted in: Decision Making, Real World Scenario, Signal Detection, Student Withdrawal Filed under: publication

Two-stage dynamic signal detection: A theory of choice, decision time, and confidence

January 1, 2010 Timothy J. Pleskac, and Jerome R. Busemeyer

The 3 most often-used performance measures in the cognitive and decision sciences are choice, response or decision time, and confidence.…

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Posted in: Confidence, Decision Time, Evidence Accumulation, Preferential Choice, Signal Detection Filed under: publication

Decision making and learning while taking sequential risks

January 1, 2008 Timothy J. Pleskac

A sequential risk-taking paradigm used to identify real-world risk takers invokes both learning and decision processes. This article expands the…

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Posted in: Adaptive Toolbox, Decision Making, Real World Scenario, Risk-Reward Filed under: publication

A signal detection analysis of the recognition heuristic

January 1, 2007 Timothy J. Pleskac

The recognition heuristic uses a recognition decision to make an inference about an unknown variable in the world. Theories of…

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Posted in: Choice Environment, Recognition, Signal Detection, Similarity Filed under: publication

Modeling Behavior in a Clinically Diagnostic Sequential Risk-Taking Task

January 1, 2005 Thomas S. Wallsten, Timothy J. Pleskac, and C. W. Lejuez

This article models the cognitive processes underlying learning and sequential choice in a risk-taking task for the purposes of understanding…

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Posted in: Adaptive Toolbox, Real World Scenario, Risk-Reward Filed under: publication

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