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Journal publications: Copyright-protected articles are provided here for viewing purposes only
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Martin, N., Hughes, J., & Fugelsang, J. (in press). The role of experience, gender, and individual differences in statistical reasoning. Statistical Education Research Journal.
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Graydon, C., Dixon, M.J., Harrigan, K.A. Fugelsang, J.A., & Jarick, M. (2017). Losses disguised as wins in multiline slots: using an educational animation to reduce erroneous win overestimates. International Gambling Studies. doi: 10.1080/14459795.2017.1355404.
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Dixon, M.J., Larche, C.J., Stange, M., Graydon, C., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2017). Near-Misses and Stop Buttons in Slot Machine Play: An Investigation of How They Affect Players, and May Foster Erroneous Cognitions. Journal of Gambling Studies. doi: 10.1007/s10899-017-9699-x.
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Dixon, M.J., Stange, M., Larche, C.J., Graydon, C., Fugelsang, J.A., & Harrigan, K.A. (2017). Dark Flow, Depression and Multiline Slot Machine Play. Journal of Gambling Studies. doi: 10.1007/s10899-017-9695-1.
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Pennycook, G., Ross, R.M., Koehler, D.J., & Fugelsang, J. (2017). Dunning-Kruger effects in reasoning: Theoretical implications of the failure to recognize incompetence. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1242-7.
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Pennycook, G., Fugelsang, J.A., Koehler, D.J., & Thompson, V.A. (2016). Commentary on: Rethinking fast and slow based on a critique of reaction-time reverse inference. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01174.
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Millar, C., Starmans, C., Fugelsang, J., & Friedman, O. (2016). It’s Personal: The effect of personal value on utilitarian moral judgments. Judgment and Decision Making, 11, 326-331.
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Pennycook, G., Ross, R., Koehler, D.J. & Fugelsang, J.A. (2016). Atheists and agnostics are more reflective than religious believers: Four empirical studies and a meta-analysis. PLoS ONE, 11, 1-18.
- Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J.A., Barr, N., Koehler, D.J. & Fugelsang, J.A. (2016). It’s still bullshit: Reply to Dalton. Judgment and Decision Making, 11, 123-125.
- Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J.A., Barr, N., Koehler, D.J. & Fugelsang, J.A. (2015). On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. Judgment and Decision Making, 10, 549-563.
- Pennycook, G., Fugelsang, J., & Koehler D. (2015). Everyday consequences of analytic thinking. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24, 425-432.
- Pennycook, G., Fugelsang, J., & Koehler, D. (2015). What makes us think? A three-stage dual-process model of analytic engagement. Cognitive Psychology, 80, 34-72.
- Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J.A., Koehler, D.J. & Fugelsang, J.A. (2015). Is the cognitive reflection test a measure of both reflection and intuition? Behavioral Research Methods, 48, 341-248.
- Ferguson, A.M., Maloney, E.A., Fugelsang, J., Risko, E.F. (2015). On the relation between math and spatial ability: The case of math anxiety. Learning and Individual Differences, 39, 1-12.
- Barr, N., Pennycook, G., Stolz, J.A., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2015). The brain in your pocket: Evidence that smartphones are used to supplant thinking. Computers in Human Behaviour, 48, 473-480.
- Barr, N., Pennycook, G., Stolz, J.A., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2015). Reasoned connections: A dual-process perspective on the role of analytic processing in creative thought. Thinking & Reasoning [Special Issue: Creativity and Insight Problem Solving], 21, 61-75. DOI:10.1080/13546783.2014.895915.
- Templeton, J.A., Dixon, M.J., Harrigan, K.A., Fugelsang, J.A. (2014). Upping the reinforcement rate by playing the maximum lines in multi-line slot machine play. Journal of Gambling Studies. DOI: 10.1007/s10899-014-9446-5.
- Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J.A, Barr, N., Koehler, D., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2014). Cognitive style and religiosity: The role of conflict detection. Memory & Cognition, 42, 1-10. DOI: 10.3758/s13421-013-0340-7.
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Dixon. M.J., Graydon, C., Harrigan, K.A., Wojtowicz, L., Siu, V., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2014). The allure of milti-line games in modern slot machines. Addiction, 109, 1920-1928.
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Skinner, E., Manios, M., Fugelsang, J., & Fernandes, M. (2014). Reinstatement of encoding context during recollection: behavioural and neuroimaging evidence of a double dissociation. Behavioural Brain Research, 264, 51-63.
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Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J.A, Barr, N., Koehler, D.J. & Fugelsang, J.A. (2014). The role of analytic thinking in moral judgements and values. Thinking & Reasoning, 20, 188-214.
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Dixon, M.J., Collins, K., Harrigan, K.A., Graydon, C., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2013). Using sound to unmask losses disguised as wins in multiline slot machines. Journal of Gambling Studies, 10.1007/s10899-013-9411-8.
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Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J.A, Barr, N., Koehler, D., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2013). Cognitive style and religiosity: The role of conflict detection. Memory & Cognition, 42, 1-10.
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Dixon, M.J., Harrigan, K.A., Santesso, D.L., Graydon, C., Fugelsang, J.A., & Collins, K. (2013). The impact of sound in modern multiline video slot machine play. Journal of Gambling Studies. DOI: 10.1007/s10899-013-9391-8.
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Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J., Koehler, D., & Fugelsang, J. (2013). Belief bias during reasoning among religious believers and sceptics. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 806-811.
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Risko, E.F., Maloney, E.A., & Fugelsang, J.A. (2013). Paying attention to attention: Evidence for an attentional contribution to the size congruity effect. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 65, 1137-1147.
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Dixon, M.J., MacLaren, V.V., Jarick, M., Fugelsang, J.A., & Harrigan, K.A. (2013). The frustrating effects of just missing the jackpot: Slot machine near-misses trigger large skin conductance responses, but no post reinforcement pauses. Journal of Gambling Studies, 29, 661-674.
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Jensen, C., Dixon, M.J., Harrigan, K.A., Sheepy, E., Fugelsang, J.A., & Jarick, M. (2013). Misinterpreting “winning” in multiline slot machine games. International Gambling Studies, 13, 112-126.
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Dixon, M.J., Fugelsang, J.A., MacLaren, V.V., & Harrigan, K.A. (2013). Gamblers can discriminate “tight” from “loose” electronic gaming machines. International Gambling Studies, 13, 98-111.
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Nilsen, E.S., Mewhort-Buist, T., Gillis, R., & Fugelsang, J. (2013). Communicative perspective-taking performance of adults with ADHD symptoms. Journal of Attention Disorders, 17, 589-597.
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Pennycook, G., Fugelsang, J., & Koehler, D. (2012). Are we good at detecting conflict during reasoning? Cognition, 124, 101-106.
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Pennycook, G., Cheyne, J., Seli, P., Koehler, D., & Fugelsang, J. (2012). Analytic cognitive style predicts religious and paranormal belief. Cognition, 123, 335-346.
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Maloney, E., Waechter, S., Risko, E., & Fugelsang, J. (2012). Reducing the sex difference in math anxiety: The role of spatial processing ability. Learning and Individual Differences, 22, 380-384.
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MacLaren, V., Fugelsang, J., Harrigan, K.. & Dixon, M. (2012). Effects of impulsivity, reinforcement sensitivity, and cognitive style on pathological gambling symptoms among frequent slot machine players. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 390-394.
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Green, A., Kraemer, D., Fugelsang, J., Gray, J., & Dunbar, K. (2012). Neurocorrelates of creativity in analogical reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 38, 264-272.
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Harrigan, K, Dixon, M., MacLaren, V., Collins, K., & Fugelsang, J. (2011). The maximum reward at the minimum price: Reinforcement rates and payback percentages in multi-line slot machines (PDF). Journal of Gambling Issues, 26, 11-29.
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Dixon, M., Harrigan, K., Jarick, M., Fugelsang, J., & Sheepy, E. (2011). Psychophysical arousal signatures of near-misses in slot machine play (PDF). International Gambling Studies 11, 393-407.
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MacLaren, V., Fugelsang, J., Harrigan, K., & Dixon, M. (2011). The personality of pathological gamblers: A meta-analysis (PDF). Clinical Psychology Review, 31, 1057-1067.
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Maloney, E., Ansari, D., & Fugelsang, J. (2011). The effect of mathematics anxiety on the processing of numerical magnitude (PDF). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 10-16.
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Borgmann, K., Fugelsang, J., Ansari, D., & Besner, D. (2011). Manipulation of congruency proportion reveals asymmetric processing of irrelevant physical and numerical dimensions in the size congruity paradigm (PDF). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 98-104.
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Ozubko, J., & Fugelsang, J. (2011). Remembering makes evidence compelling: retrieval from memory can give rise to the illusion of truth (PDF). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 37, 270-276.
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Dixon, M., Harrigan, K, Sandhu, R., Collins, K., & Fugelsang, J. (2010). Losses disguised as wins in video slot machines (PDF). Addiction.
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Fugelsang, J., & Roser, M. (2010). On the interaction between stimulus features and context in the perception of causality (PDF). The Open Psychology Journal, 3, 91-96.
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Maloney, E., Risko, E., Preston, F., Ansari, D., & Fugelsang, J. (2010). Challenging the reliability and validity of cognitive measures: The case of the numerical distance effect (PDF). Acta Pyschologica, 134, 154-161.
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Green, A., Kraemer, D., Fugelsang, J., Gray, J., & Dunbar, K. (2010). Connecting long distance: Semantic distance in analogical reasoning modulates frontopolar cortex activity (PDF). Cerebral Cortex, 20, 70-76.
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Maloney, E., Risko, E., Ansari, D., & Fugelsang, J. (2010). Mathematics anxiety affects counting but not subitizing during visual enumeration (PDF). Cognition, 114, 293-297.
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Barton, K., Fugelsang, J., & Smilek, D. (2009). Inhibiting beliefs demands attention (PDF). Thinking & Reasoning, 15, 250-267.
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Roser, M., Fugelsang, J., Handy, T., Dunbar, K., & Gazzaniga, M. (2009). Representations of physical plausibility revealed by event-related potentials (PDF). Neuroreport, 20, 1081-1086.
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Green, A., Fugelsang, J., Kraemer, D., & Dunbar, K. (2008). The micro-category account of analogy (PDF). Cognition, 106, 1004-1016.
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Ansari, D., Fugelsang., J., Dhital, B., Venkatraman, V. (2006). Dissociating response-conflict from numerical magnitude processing in the brain: an event related fMRI study (PDF). NeuroImage, 15, 125-137.
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Green, A., Fugelsang, J., Kraemer, D., Shamosh, N., & Dunbar, K. (2006). The dynamic role of prefrontal cortex in reasoning and abstract thought (PDF). Brain Research, 1096, 125-137.
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Green, A., Fugelsang, J., & Dunbar, K. (2006). Automatic activation of categorical and abstract analogical relations in analogical reasoning (PDF). Memory & Cognition, 34, 1414-1421.
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Levitt, T., Fugelsang, J., & Crossley, M. (2006). Processing speed, attentional capacity, and age-related memory change (PDF). Experimental Aging Research, 32, 263-295.
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Fugelsang, J., Thompson, V., & Dunbar. K. (2006). Examining the representation of causal knowledge (PDF). Thinking & Reasoning, 12, 1-30.
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Krendl, A., Macrae, C., Kelley, W., Fugelsang, J., & Heatherton, T. (2006). The good, the bad, and the ugly: An fMRI investigation of the functional anatomic correlates of stigma (PDF). Social Neuroscience, 1, 5-15.
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Fugelsang, J., Roser, M., Corballis, P., Gazzaniga, M., & Dunbar, K. (2005). Brain mechanisms underlying perceptual causality (PDF). Cognitive Brain Research, 24, 41-47.
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Roser, M., Fugelsang, J., Dunbar, K., Corballis, P., & Gazzaniga, M. (2005). Dissociating processes supporting causal perception and causal inference in the brain (PDF). Neuropsychology, 19, 591-602.
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Fugelsang, J., & Dunbar, K. (2005). Brain-based mechanisms underlying complex causal thinking (PDF). Neuropsychologia, 43, 1204-1213.
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Fugelsang, J., & Dunbar, K. (2004). A cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding causal reasoning and the law (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society of London: Series B, 359, 1749-1754.
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Baird, A., & Fugelsang, J. (2004). The emergence of consequential thought: Evidence from neuroscience (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society of London: Series B, 359, 1797-1804.
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Fugelsang, J., Stein, C., Green, A., & Dunbar, K. (2004). Theory and data interactions of the scientific mind: Evidence from the molecular and the cognitive laboratory (PDF). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 132-141.
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Fugelsang, J., & Thompson, V. (2003). A dual-process model of belief and evidence interactions in causal reasoning (PDF). Memory & Cognition, 31, 800-815.
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Campbell, J. I. D., Fugelsang, J., & Hernberg, V. (2002). Effects of lexicality and distinctiveness on repetition blindness (PDF). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 948-962.
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Fugelsang. J., & Thompson, V. (2001). Belief-based and covariation-based cues affect causal discounting (PDF). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55, 70-76.
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Campbell, J. I. D., & Fugelsang, J. (2001). Strategy choices for arithmetic verification: Effects of numerical format (PDF). Cognition, 80, 21-30.
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Fugelsang. J., & Thompson, V. (2000). Strategy selection in causal reasoning: When beliefs and covariation collide (PDF). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54, 13-32.
Books
- Galotti, K, Fernandes, M., Fugelsang, J., & Stolz, J. (2010). Cognitive Psychology: In and Out of the Laboratory. 1st Canadian Edition. Thomson Nelson Publishing, Toronto, ON.
Book chapters
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Dixon, M.J., Templeton, J., Collins, K., Wojtowicz, L., Harrigan, K., Fugelsang, J., & Siu, V. (2015). Exploring attention in the “reel” world” visual and auditory influences on reactions to wins and near-misses in multi-line slot machine play. In J. Fawcett, E. F. Risko, & A. Kingstone (Eds.), The handbook of attention (589-621). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
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Fugelsang, J., & Mareschal, D. (2014). The development and application of scientific reasoning. To appear in D. Mareschal, B. Butterworth, & A. Tolmie (Eds), Educational neuroscience, (pp. 237-267).Wiley-Blackwell.
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Collins, K., Tessler, H., Harrigan, K., Dixon, M., & Fugelsang, J. (2011). Sound in electronic gambling machines: a review of the literature and its relevance to game audio. In M. Grimshaw (ed.), Game sound Technology and player interaction: concepts and developments (pp. 1-21). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
- Fugelsang, J. & Dunbar, K. (2009). Brain based mechanisms underlying causal reasoning. In E. Kraft, B. Guylas, & E. Poppel (Eds.), Neural correlates of thinking (pp. 269 – 279). Berlin: Springer.
- Dunbar, K., Fugelsang, J., & Stein, C. (2007). Do naive theories ever go away? Using brain and behavior to understand changes in concepts. In M. Lovett, & P. Shah (Eds.), Thinking with data (pp. 193-206). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Dunbar, K., & Fugelsang, J. (2005). Scientific thinking and reasoning. In K. Holyoak & R. Morrison (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of thinking & reasoning (pp. 705-725). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Dunbar, K., & Fugelsang, J. (2005). Causal thinking in science: How scientists and students interpret the unexpected. In M. E. Gorman, R. D. Tweney, D. Gooding, & A. Kincannon (Eds.), Scientific and technical thinking (pp. 57-79). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Fugelsang, J., & Thompson, V. (2002). Foundations of human causal reasoning. In S. Shohov (Ed.), Advances in psychology research: Vol. 12 (pp. 83-101). Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers.