Notes that the subjective concept of randomness is used in many areas of psychological
research to explain a variety of experimental results. 1 method of studying randomness is to …

This paper describes a study on the recall of 2400 events from the author's daily life, recorded
during a period of 6 years. One feature of the study is that all events were recorded by …

Why does a large proportion of the population engage in some form of gambling, although
they know they are most likely to lose, and that the gambling industry makes huge profits? Do …

Psychologists have studied people's intuitive notions of randomness by two kinds of tasks:
judgment tasks (eg, “is this series like a coin?” or “which of these series is most like a coin?”), …

Accidents are the consequences of highly complex coincidences. Among the multitude of
contributing factors human errors play a dominant role. Prevention of human error is therefore …

The authors of this critique of judicial decision-making contend that judges, lawyers and
police believe so strongly in the narrative presented in criminal legal proceedings that they do …

Exponential growth in numerical series and graphs is grossly underestimated in an intuitive
extrapolation task. Subjects’ extrapolations are well described by a model with two …

This study is concerned with the question whether extremely emotional experiences, such
as being the victim of Nazi concentration camps, leave traces in memory that cannot be …

We demonstrate that it is relatively easy in a real life situation to make reasonably intelligent
adults believe that they have witnessed something they actually have not seen themselves, …

The representation of duckweed multiplying itself in a pond is used as a research paradigm
to study underestimation of exponential growth. The advantage of this paradigm is that the …