The field of cognitive psychology has increasingly provided scientific insights to explore how humans are subject to unconscious sources of evidentiary bias, leading to errors that can affect judgement and decision-making. Increasingly these insights are being applied outside the realm of individual decision-making to the collective arena of policy-making as well. A recent editorial in this jou...

This position paper explores the possible contributions to the science of psychology from insights obtained by building and experimenting with cognitive robots. First, the functional modeling so characteristic of experimental psychology is discussed. Next, the computational modeling required for cognitive robotics is described, and possible experiments with them illustrated. Next we argue that ...

This position paper explores the possible contributions to the science of psychology from insights obtained by building and experimenting with cognitive robots. First, the functional modeling characteristic of experimental psychology is discussed. Second, the computational modeling required for cognitive robotics is described, and possible experiments with them are illustrated. Next, we argue t...

Cognitive science has incorporated seminal concepts of psychoanalysis without acknowledging this influence. This article covers psychoanalytic ideas already incorporatedimplicitly or explicitly-in modern cognitive psychology, as well as ideas whose inclusion would benefit the cognitive field. These include the emphasis on mental models, mind-body interaction, unconscious processes, dual process...

Social and cognitive psychologists differ less and less in terms of the topics they investigate or the methods they use. And yet, they tend to prefer different grain sizes of theorizing, which makes—and is likely to keep making—communication between these disciplines difficult. I suggest to bear these difficulties because they imply differences in perspective that are crucial for addressing and...

Uncontrollable anxious thought characterizes a number of emotional disorders and has been linked to impaired emotional and physical health. The present research aimed to clarify the nature of uncontrollable worry as a clinical and cognitive construct. Chapter 1 evaluated uncontrollability of worry as a diagnostic criterion for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). This study was conducted in resp...

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss some of the developments in cognitive psychology that have been influential in educational technology research. Since cognitive psychology is a broad, eclectic, and sometimes elusive discipline , this chapter is of necessity selective. Nonetheless, it provides discussion of the most important research in cogni-tive psychology that has a bearing on the t...

Comparative psychology is by nature an interdisciplinary science that lies at the crossroads of psychology and biology but also draws from other fields in the natural, social, and cognitive sciences. The study of the psychology of animals has been labeled animal cognition, comparative cognition, animal learning, animal psychology, and animal intelligence. Here, comparative psychology is used in...

The terms in my title form an odd triple. Social theory has been largely immune from, or has ignored, cognitive science. Ethics and social theory have a long and well-grounded history of antagonism, interspersed with moments of mutual borrowing. Cognitive science and ethics have a more intense relationship. One of the main critiques of John Rawls, for example, was that he lacked an adequate mor...