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Samuel Johnson
Judgment and Decision MakingReasoningBehavioral EconomicsJudgmentSocial CognitionBiases, Framing, and HeuristicsCognitionConsumer Decision MakingDecision MakingEmotion
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40 papers in the corpus · 2014–2026Cognitive forecasting: How intuitive theories of attention shape anticipated risk preferences.42896339 · Demircioglu, Dogukan, Dawson, Chris, Johnson, Samuel G B2026 · 0 citationsCognition. 2026;279:106741
Selfish reasons to be a meritocrat.42825698 · Sheskin, Mark, Johnson, Samuel G B2026 · 0 citationsThe Behavioral and brain sciences. 2026;49:e444
Towards a Cognitive Science of Practical Wisdom for Ill-Defined Decisionshpb2e_v1 · Abhishek Dedhe, Samuel G. B. Johnson, Igor Grossmann2026 · 0 citationsPsyArXiv
Roles or rules?42755206 · Johnson, Samuel G B2026 · 0 citationsThe Behavioral and brain sciences. 2026;49:e381
Gray swan neglect: Do forecasters account for low(ish) probability events?42133370 · Demircioglu, Dogukan, Hill, Faith, Johnson, Samuel G B2026 · 0 citationsJournal of experimental psychology. Applied. 2026
Imagining and building wise machines: the centrality of AI metacognition.41760502 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Karimi, Amir-Hossein, Bengio, Yoshua et al.2026 · 12 citationsTrends in cognitive sciences. 2026;30(10):854-868
Asymmetric Anticipatory Emotions and Economic Preferences: Dread, Savoring, Risk, and Time.41557469 · Dawson, Chris, Johnson, Samuel G B2026 · 2 citationsCognitive science. 2026;50(1):e70160
Cultivating wisdom through metacognition: A new frontier in decision-making under radical uncertaintyhcnkx_v5 · Igor Grossmann, Samuel Johnson2024 · 5 citationsPsyArXiv
The latent scope bias: Robust and replicable.39208638 · Khemlani, Sangeet, Johnson, Samuel G B, Oppenheimer, Daniel M et al.2024 · 3 citationsCognition. 2024;252:105872
Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics.39127602 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Schotanus, Patrick R, Kelso, J A Scott2024 · 6 citationsTrends in cognitive sciences. 2024;28(11):1037-1050
Explanatory Power as a Substitute for Statistical Reasoningz4f6r_v1 · Samuel G. B. Johnson, Angie Johnston, Amy E. Toig et al.2024 · 0 citationsPsyArXiv
Cognitive Economics: Minds and Markets as Complex Systemsh6jzf_v1 · Samuel G. B. Johnson, Patrick R. Schotanus, JA Scott Kelso2024 · 0 citationsPsyArXiv
Selfish perceptions of selfless actions: How prosocial motivations are interpreted between the self and other.h5zfg_v1 · Prarthana Sembakutti, Jordan Sheen, Samuel G. B. Johnson2023 · 1 citationPsyArXiv
Nudges, regulations, and behavioral public choice.37646282 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Dana, Jason2023 · 1 citationThe Behavioral and brain sciences. 2023;46:e164
When do consumers favor overly precise information about investment returns?37261759 · Batteux, Eleonore, Bilovich, Avri, Khon, Zarema et al.2023 · 2 citationsJournal of experimental psychology. Applied. 2023;29(2):302-321
Dual Process Intuitions: Consumers’ Beliefs about Persuasion Processing Drive Morality of Marketing Communicationsnhrby_v1 · Zarema Khon, Yi-Ju Chen, Yvetta Simonyan et al.2022 · 0 citationsPsyArXiv
Negative consequences of failing to communicate uncertainties during a pandemic: an online randomised controlled trial on COVID-19 vaccines.36691187 · Batteux, Eleonore, Bilovich, Avri, Johnson, Samuel G B et al.2023 · 41 citationsBMJ open. 2022;12(9):e051352
Conviction Narrative Theory: A theory of choice under radical uncertainty.35634729 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Bilovich, Avri, Tuckett, David2023 · 131 citationsThe Behavioral and brain sciences. 2022;46:e82
Win-win denial: The psychological underpinnings of zero-sum thinking.34370502 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Zhang, Jiewen, Keil, Frank C2022 · 69 citationsJournal of experimental psychology. General. 2022;151(2):455-474
Narrative Expectations in Financial Forecastingsafg6_v1 · Samuel G. B. Johnson, David Tuckett2021 · 22 citationsPsyArXiv
Lay Theories of Manipulation: Do Consumers Believe They are Susceptible to Marketers’ Trickery?8x63c_v1 · Zarema Khon, Samuel G. B. Johnson, Haiming Hang2020 · 1 citationPsyArXiv
Principles of moral accounting: How our intuitive moral sense balances rights and wrongs.33129053 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Ahn, Jaye2021 · 9 citationsCognition. 2021;206:104467
Constructing Confidence: The Role of Affect and Cognition in Decisions Under Radical Uncertaintytacpn_v1 · Avri Bilovich, Samuel G. B. Johnson, David Tuckett2020 · 2 citationsPsyArXiv
Dimensions of Altruism: Do Evaluations of Prosocial Behavior Track Social Good or Personal Sacrifice?r85jv_v1 · Samuel G. B. Johnson2020 · 21 citationsPsyArXiv
Belief digitization: Do we treat uncertainty as probabilities or as bits?31789573 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Merchant, Thomas, Keil, Frank C2020 · 35 citationsJournal of experimental psychology. General. 2020;149(8):1417-1434
Moral Signaling through Donations of Money and Timetg9xs_v1 · Samuel G. B. Johnson, Seo Young Park2019 · 47 citationsPsyArXiv
Simplicity and complexity preferences in causal explanation: An opponent heuristic account.31200208 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Valenti, J J, Keil, Frank C2020 · 63 citationsCognitive psychology. 2019;113:101222
The False Promise of Sexiness: Perceived Importance, Interest, and Citation Patterns for Counterintuitive Research Findings45rth_v1 · Samuel G. B. Johnson, Amanda Royka, Peter McNally et al.2019 · 2 citationsPsyArXiv
Intuitions about mathematical beauty: A case study in the aesthetic experience of ideas.31015078 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Steinerberger, Stefan2020 · 32 citationsCognition. 2019;189:242-259
Financial alchemists and financial shamans.31064468 · Johnson, Samuel G B2019 · 6 citationsThe Behavioral and brain sciences. 2018;41:e78
Why do people believe in a zero-sum economy?31064507 · Johnson, Samuel G B2019 · 8 citationsThe Behavioral and brain sciences. 2018;41:e172
The Universal Aesthetics of Mathematics1711.08376v1 · Samuel G. B. Johnson, Stefan Steinerberger2017 · 7 citationsarXiv
Preferences for Explanation Generality Develop Early in Biology But Not Physics.28397962 · Johnston, Angie M, Sheskin, Mark, Johnson, Samuel G B et al.2019 · 17 citationsChild development. 2018;89(4):1110-1119
The effect of abstract versus concrete framing on judgments of biological and psychological bases of behavior.28367497 · Kim, Nancy S, Johnson, Samuel G B, Ahn, Woo-Kyoung et al.2019 · 10 citationsCognitive research: principles and implications. 2017;2(1):17
Little Bayesians or little Einsteins? Probability and explanatory virtue in children's inferences.27750405 · Johnston, Angie M, Johnson, Samuel G B, Koven, Marissa L et al.2018 · 51 citationsDevelopmental science. 2017;20(6)
Sense-making under ignorance.27479271 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Rajeev-Kumar, Greeshma, Keil, Frank C2017 · 37 citationsCognitive psychology. 2016;89:39-70
The influence of framing on clinicians' judgments of the biological basis of behaviors.26651348 · Kim, Nancy S, Ahn, Woo-kyoung, Johnson, Samuel G B et al.2017 · 19 citationsJournal of experimental psychology. Applied. 2016;22(1):39-47
Do the right thing: the assumption of optimality in lay decision theory and causal judgment.25773909 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Rips, Lance J2015 · 39 citationsCognitive psychology. 2015;77:42-76
Causal Networks or Causal Islands? The Representation of Mechanisms and the Transitivity of Causal Judgment.25556901 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Ahn, Woo-kyoung2016 · 35 citationsCognitive science. 2015;39(7):1468-503
Causal inference and the hierarchical structure of experience.25347533 · Johnson, Samuel G B, Keil, Frank C2016 · 45 citationsJournal of experimental psychology. General. 2014;143(6):2223-41
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