Publications

Adam Bear, Jonathan S. Phillips (2021). Random effects won’t solve the problem of generalizability. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Adam Bear, Fiery Cushman (2020). Loss functions modulate the optimal bias-variance trade-off. Proceedings of the Forty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Gordon Pennycook, Adam Bear, Evan T. Collins, David G. Rand (2020). The implied truth effect: Attaching warnings to a subset of fake news headlines increases perceived accuracy of headlines without warnings. Management Science.

Adam Bear, Samantha Bensinger, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Joshua Knobe, Fiery Cushman (2020). What comes to mind?. Cognition, 194.

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Adam Bear, David G. Rand (2019). Can strategic ignorance explain the evolution of love?. Topics in Cognitive Science, 11, 393–408.

Michael V. Bronstein, Gordon Pennycook, Adam Bear, David G. Rand, Tyrone D. Cannon (2019). Belief in fake news is associated with delusionality, dogmatism, religious fundamentalism, and reduced analytic thinking. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 108–117.

Adam Bear, Samantha Bensinger, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Joshua Knobe (2018). What comes to mind? A mix of what's likely and what's good. Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Adam Bear, Rebecca G. Fortgang, Michael V. Bronstein, Tyrone D. Cannon (2017). Mistiming of thought and perception predicts delusionality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 10791–10796.

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Adam Bear, David G. Rand (2017). The value of information [News & Views]. Nature Human Behaviour.

David G. Rand, Damon Tomlin, Adam Bear, Elliot A. Ludvig, Jonathan D. Cohen (2017). Cyclical population dynamics of automatic versus controlled processing: An evolutionary pendulum. Psychological Review, 124, 626–642.

Adam Bear, Joshua Knobe (2017). Normality: Part descriptive, part prescriptive. Cognition, 167, 25–37.

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Adam Bear, Ari Kagan, David G. Rand (2017). Co-evolution of cooperation and cognition: The impact of imperfect deliberation and context-sensitive intuition. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284, 1–9.

Adam Bear, Paul Bloom (2017). Born free? Children's intuitions about choice. In M. Griffith, K. Timpe, & N. Levy (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Free Will.

Adam Bear, David G. Rand (2016). Modeling intuition's origins. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5, 341–344.

Adam Bear, Paul Bloom (2016). A simple task uncovers a postdictive illusion of choice. Psychological Science, 27, 914–922.

Emily J. Ward, Adam Bear, Brian J. Scholl (2016). Can you perceive ensembles without perceiving individuals?: The role of statistical perception in determining whether awareness overflows access. Cognition, 152, 78–86.

Adam Bear, David G. Rand (2016). Intuition, deliberation, and the evolution of cooperation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 936–941.

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Adam Bear, Joshua Knobe (2016). What do people find incompatible with determinism?. Cognitive Science, 40, 2025-2049.

Adam Bear, Joshua Knobe (2015). Folk judgments of normality: Part statistical, part evaluative. Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.