Keith Ransom

What Do Our Sampling Assumptions Affect: How We Encode Data or How We Reason From It?

Keith J Ransom, Andrew Perfors, Brett K Hayes, Saoirse Connor Desai

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-LEARNING MEMORY AND COGNITION

In describing how people generalize from observed samples of data to novel cases, theories of inductive inference have emphasized ..

Human-like property induction is a challenge for large language models

SJ Han, KJ Ransom, A Perfors, C Kemp

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022

Source independence affects argument persuasiveness when the relevance is clear

M Alister, A Perfors, K Ransom

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022

What interventions can decrease or increase belief polarisation in a population of rational agents?

PDL Howe, A Perfors, K Ransom

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021

Social meta-inference and the evidentiary value of consensus

KJ Ransom, A Perfors, R Stephens

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021

Do sequential lineups impair underlying discriminability?

Matthew Kaesler, John C Dunn, Keith Ransom, Carolyn Semmler

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications - a SpringerOpen journal

Debate regarding the best way to test and measure eyewitness memory has dominated the eyewitness literature for more than 30 years..

Sample size, number of categories and sampling assumptions: Exploring some differences between categorization and generalization

Andrew T Hendrickson, Amy Perfors, Danielle J Navarro, Keith Ransom

Journal article  |  2019  |  COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Categorization and generalization are fundamentally related inference problems. Yet leading computational models of categorization..

The diversity effect in inductive reasoning depends on sampling assumptions

Brett K Hayes, Danielle J Navarro, Rachel G Stephens, Keith Ransom, Natali Dilevski

Journal article  |  2019  |  PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW

A key phenomenon in inductive reasoning is the diversity effect, whereby a novel property is more likely to be generalized when it..

Exploring the role that encoding and retrieval play in sampling effects

K Ransom, A Perfors

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019

Representational and sampling assumptions drive individual differences in single category generalisation

K Ransom, AT Hendrickson, A Perfors, DJ Navarro

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2018