Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises
- R. Nickerson
- Psychology
- 1 June 1998
Confirmation bias, as the term is typically used in the psychological literature, connotes the seeking or interpreting of evidence in ways that are partial to existing beliefs, expectations, or a…
Null hypothesis significance testing: a review of an old and continuing controversy.
- R. Nickerson
- PsychologyPsychological methods
- 1 June 2000
The concluding opinion is that NHST is easily misunderstood and misused but that when applied with good judgment it can be an effective aid to the interpretation of experimental data.
How We Know—and Sometimes Misjudge—What Others Know: Imputing One's Own Knowledge to Others
- R. Nickerson
- Education
- 1 November 1999
To communicate effectively, people must have a reasonably accurate idea about what specific other people know. An obvious starting point for building a model of what another knows is what one oneself…
The production and perception of randomness.
- R. Nickerson
- PsychologyPsychology Review
- 1 April 2002
The widely held view that people are incapable of generating or recognizing randomness is shown to lack the strong experimental support that has sometimes been claimed for it.
Retrieval inhibition from part-set cuing: A persisting enigma in memory research
- R. Nickerson
- PsychologyMemory & Cognition
- 1 November 1984
This paper reviews the studies that have yielded the effect of having available a subset of the items as cues, and considers several explanations of it that have been proposed.
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- R. Nickerson
- Education
- 2007
Illiteracy among adults is a serious national problem in the United States and elsewhere. Attempts to alleviate the problem have worked only marginally well. Recently the Adult Literacy Initiative of…
Intersensory facilitation of reaction time: energy summation or preparation enhancement?
- R. Nickerson
- PsychologyPsychology Review
- 1 November 1973
SHORT-TERM MEMORY FOR COMPLEX MEANINGFUL VISUAL CONFIGURATIONS: A DEMONSTRATION OF CAPACITY.
- R. Nickerson
- PsychologyCanadian journal of psychology
- 1 June 1965
Abstract : The experiment concerned an aspect of short-term memory somewhat neglected in the past, namely, the ability to remember, i.e., to recognize, complex meaningful visual configurations. S's…
Hempel's Paradox and Wason's Selection Task: Logical and Psychological Puzzles of Confirmation
- R. Nickerson
- Philosophy, Psychology
- 1 May 1996
Hempel's paradox of the ravens has to do with the question of what constitutes confirmation from a logical point of view; Wason's selection task has been used extensively to investigate how people go…
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