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  1. Why good thoughts block better ones: The mechanism of the pernicious Einstellung (set) effect.Merim Bilalić, Peter McLeod & Fernand Gobet - 2008 - Cognition 108 (3):652-661.
    The Einstellung effect occurs when the first idea that comes to mind, triggered by familiar features of a problem, prevents a better solution being found. It has been shown to affect both people facing novel problems and experts within their field of expertise. We show that it works by influencing mechanisms that determine what information is attended to. Having found one solution, expert chess players reported that they were looking for a better one. But their eye movements showed that they (...)
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  • Waiting for the bus: When base-rates refuse to be neglected.Karl Halvor Teigen & Gideon Keren - 2007 - Cognition 103 (3):337-357.
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  • Statistician, heal thyself: fighting statophobia at the source.Aleksandar Aksentijevic - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6:158909.
    Notwithstanding the popularity of psychology courses throughout the world, educators face a constant and difficult problem of overcoming the fear of and dislike for statistics which represents one of the pillars of modern psychological science. Although the issue is complex and multifaceted, here I argue that “statophobia” might represent a rational and justified response to the sense of unease felt in contact with abstract statistical concepts which are often vague, circular or ill-defined. I illustrate the problem by briefly discussing two (...)
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  • The development of children's problem solving in a gears task: A problem space perspective.Kathleen E. Metz - 1985 - Cognitive Science 9 (4):431-471.
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