Humans routinely miss important information that is 'right in front of our eyes', from
overlooking typos in a paper to failing to see a cyclist in an intersection. Recent studies on …

One of the most important applications of visual search is in the interpretation of medical
images. Like many applications of visual search, medical image interpretation is typically …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Why do some social problems seem so intractable? In a series of experiments, we show that
people often respond to decreases in the prevalence of a stimulus by expanding their …

Objective: This work assesses the efficacy of the “prevalence effect” as a form of cyberattack
in human-automation teaming, using an email task. Background: Under the prevalence …

In visual search, rare targets are missed disproportionately often. This low-prevalence effect
(LPE) is a robust problem with demonstrable societal consequences. What is the source of …

People adjust decisions based on their experiences; and it is important to know how to
shape these experiences effectively to improve their future decisions. We conducted …

In the present work, we investigated the pop cultural idea that people have a sixth sense,
called “gaydar,” to detect who is gay. We propose that “gaydar” is an alternate label for using …

In everyday life, we continuously search for and classify objects in the environment around
us. This kind of visual search is extremely important when performed by radiologists in …

Safety in Numbers is the phenomenon by which the per-walker or per-bicyclist frequency of
being struck by motorists declines as the amount of walking or bicycling on a street or in a …