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Corrigendum to “Network analyses identify critical factors for facilitating future-oriented decision-making” [Cogn. Psychol. 165 (2026) 101815] “网络分析确定促进面向未来的决策的关键因素”的勘误表。精神病学杂志。165(2026)101815]。

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2026.101817

Huimin Wu, Zhiyuan Xue, Xiong Xiao, Jianling Ma, Zilun Xiao, Ke Chen, Yuhao Jiang, Yiqun Guo

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Seeing, hearing, and feeling causation 看、听、感觉因果关系。

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2026.101814

Elyse D.Z. Chase, Kevin A. Smith, Sean Follmer, Tobias Gerstenberg

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Sublexical semantic decoding during incidental novel word learning in natural Chinese reading 汉语自然阅读附带新词学习过程中的亚词汇语义解码。

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2026.101819

Feifei Liang, Ying Xiang, Linlin Feng, Xuejun Bai, Simon P. Liversedge

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Integration of redundant signals in dynamic multisensory contexts: the principles and computational mechanisms 动态多感官环境中冗余信号的集成：原理和计算机制。

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2026.101803

Shiqi Tan , Yuhui Cheng , Jieru Chen , Xiangyong Yuan , Yi Jiang

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Counting parts and wholes and the mastery of partitive language 计算部分和整体以及对分割语言的掌握

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2026.101788

Peggy Li , Susan Carey , Pierina Cheung

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The impact of phonological similarity on production effect 语音相似性对生产效果的影响

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2025.101770

Yu Fu , Cheng Chi , Zhan Xu

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Compressed representations and attentional competition in numeric integration for average estimations 平均估计数值积分中的压缩表示和注意竞争

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2025.101780

Yongming Sun , Alice Mason , Sebastian Olschewski

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Perceiving event structure in brief actions 在简短的动作中感知事件结构

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2025.101768

Zekun Sun , Samuel D. McDougle

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Errors, fast and slow 错误，有快有慢

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2025.101779

Carlos Alós-Ferrer , Michele Garagnani

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How sampling strategies shape experience-based risky choice 抽样策略如何塑造基于经验的风险选择。

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Cognitive Psychology Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2025.101769

Linus Hof , Veronika Zilker , Thorsten Pachur

{"title":"How sampling strategies shape experience-based risky choice","authors":"Linus Hof , Veronika Zilker , Thorsten Pachur","doi":"10.1016/j.cogpsych.2025.101769","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cogpsych.2025.101769","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hallmark phenomena of risky choice, such as risk aversion and deviations from expected value (EV) maximization, are commonly modeled with psychoeconomic curves (e.g., utility function, probability weighting function). Yet these functions describe choices rather than the cognitive processes that generate them. Here, we examine how aspects of the oft-neglected process of information search – in particular, switching between options during sampling and stopping based on sampled evidence – can give rise to patterns in experience-based risky choice in the context of the sampling paradigm. We develop a computational framework that conceptualizes sampling strategies as consisting of three building blocks: a search rule (governing the rate of switching between options during sampling), a comparison rule (roundwise vs. summary evaluation of the options), and a stopping rule (decision threshold). In simulation analyses comparing different combinations of these building blocks, we show that frequent switching increases EV-maximizing choices for strategies with a summary comparison rule, but decreases maximization for strategies with a roundwise comparison rule. Further, frequent switching promotes an apparent underweighting of rarely experienced events found under the roundwise comparison rule, and curtails overweighting found under the summary comparison rule. We also reveal how the sampling strategies give rise to different risk attitudes depending on the existence and attractiveness of rare events. Finally, an empirical analysis suggests that people combine switching behavior and comparison rules in a way that fosters EV-maximizing choices. Our results underscore the possible contribution of search processes to patterns in risky choice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50669,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Psychology","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 101769"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145446492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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