The ability to act on the world with the goal of gaining information is core to human
adaptability and intelligence. Perhaps the most successful and influential account of such …

The aim of this paper is to survey and discuss some key connections between information
and confirmation within a broadly Bayesian framework. We mean to show that treating …

Human cognition and behavior heavily relies on the notion that evidence (data, premises)
can affect the credibility of hypotheses (theories, conclusions). This general idea seems to …

Searching for information is critical in many situations. In medicine, for instance, careful
choice of a diagnostic test can help narrow down the range of plausible diseases that the …

Within the domain of psychology, Optimal Experimental Design (OED) principles have been
used to model how people seek and evaluate information. Despite proving valuable as …

How should tests (or queries, questions, or experiments) be selected? Does it matter if only
a single test is allowed, or if a sequential test strategy can be planned in advance? This …

In a series of three behavioral experiments, we found a systematic distortion of probability
judgments concerning elementary visual stimuli. Participants were briefly shown a set of …

Confirmation bias, whereby individuals hold unwarranted confidence in a focal hypothesis,
might emerge from a combination of errors at the testing and evaluation stages of hypothesis …

In what follows, I will briefly summarize and discuss the main results obtained from more
than three decades of studies on the conjunction fallacy (hereafter CF) and will argue that …

Formal epistemology is just what it sounds like: epistemology done with formal tools.
Coinciding with the general rise in popularity of experimental philosophy, formal …