Publications

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.