Aba Szollosi
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Szollosi A, Wang-Ly N, Newell B
Psychon Bull Rev
. 2025 Jan;
PMID: 39753819
The naiveté of the dominant 'cognitive-miser' metaphor of human thinking hampers theoretical progress in understanding how and why subtle behavioural interventions-'nudges'-could work. We propose a reconceptualization that places the balance...
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Mason A, Szollosi A, Newell B
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
. 2024 Dec;
PMID: 39680008
An unexamined assumption in many studies of learning and decision making is that people learn underlying probability distributions. However, the acquisition of distributional knowledge is rarely the focus of investigations....
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Newell B, Szollosi A
Behav Brain Sci
. 2023 May;
46:e103.
PMID: 37154134
We connect Conviction Narrative Theory to an account that views people as intuitive scientists who can flexibly create, evaluate, and modify representations of decision problems. We argue that without understanding...
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Szollosi A, Donkin C, Newell B
Psychol Rev
. 2022 Apr;
130(2):546-568.
PMID: 35389718
Referring to probabilistic concepts (such as randomness, sampling, and probability distributions among others) is commonplace in contemporary explanations of how people learn and make decisions in the face of environmental...
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Donkin C, Szollosi A, Bramley N
Behav Brain Sci
. 2022 Feb;
45:e13.
PMID: 35139946
Generalization does not come from repeatedly observing phenomena in numerous settings, but from theories explaining what is general in those phenomena. Expecting future behavior to look like past observations is...
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Arrested Theory Development: The Misguided Distinction Between Exploratory and Confirmatory Research
Szollosi A, Donkin C
Perspect Psychol Sci
. 2021 Feb;
16(4):717-724.
PMID: 33593151
Science progresses by finding and correcting problems in theories. Good theories are those that help facilitate this process by being : They explain what they are supposed to explain, they...
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Szollosi A, Newell B
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2020 Oct;
24(12):1008-1018.
PMID: 33077380
A persistent metaphor in decision-making research casts people as intuitive statisticians. Popular explanations based on this metaphor assume that the way in which people represent the environment is specified and...
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Szollosi A, Newell B
Behav Brain Sci
. 2020 Mar;
43:e25.
PMID: 32159477
The purpose of human cognition depends on the problem people try to solve. Defining the purpose is difficult, because people seem capable of representing problems in an infinite number of...
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Szollosi A, Kellen D, Navarro D, Shiffrin R, van Rooij I, Van Zandt T, et al.
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2020 Jan;
24(2):94-95.
PMID: 31892461
No abstract available.
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Szollosi A, Liang G, Konstantinidis E, Donkin C, Newell B
J Exp Psychol Gen
. 2019 Apr;
148(12):2207-2217.
PMID: 31033320
We investigated previous findings suggesting a paradoxical inconsistency of people's beliefs and choices: When making decisions under uncertainty, people seem to both overestimate the probability of rare events in their...