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I am a cognitive psychologist interested in inference, uncertainty, and choice. Most of my research
explains errors people purportedly make in the laboratory by (a) adopting a different (usually Bayesian)
normative approach to the task of interest and (b) taking into account the informational structure of the environment.
I often find that "errors" are the result of people behaving as (qualitative) Bayesians who make reasonable
assumptions about task parameters that reflect how the world usually works. I don't claim that people never
make mistakes, only that people's behavior is much richer, more interesting -- and often more rational -- than
usually depicted in the judgment and decision-making literature.
Selected recent publications:
- Leong, L. M., M ller-Trede, J., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2023). Is it a judgment of
representativeness? Re-examining the birth sequence problem. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
[pdf]
- Nelkin, D. K., McKenzie, C. R. M., Rickless, S. C., & Ryazanov, A. A. (2023).
Trolley problems reimagined: Sensitivity to ratio, risk, and comparisons.
In F. Aguiar, H. Viciana, & A. Gaitan (Eds.), Issues in experimental moral philosophy.
[pdf]
- Ryazanov, A. A., Wang, T., Nelkin, D. K., McKenzie, C. R. M., & Rickless, S. C. (2023). Beyond killing
one to save five: Sensitivity to ratio and probability in moral judgment. Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology. [pdf]
- Sher, S., McKenzie, C. R. M., M ller-Trede, J., & Leong, L. M. (2022). Rational choice in context.
Current Directions in Psychological Science. [pdf]
- Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2022). Incomplete preferences and rational framing effects.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [pdf]
- Ryazanov, A. A., Wang, S. T., Rickless, S. C., McKenzie, C. R. M., & Nelkin, D. K. (2021).
Sensitivity to shifts in probability of harm and benefit in moral dilemmas. Cognition, 209.
[pdf]
- McKenzie, C. R. M., Leong, L. M., & Sher, S. (2021). Default sensitivity in attempts at social influence.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 695-702. [pdf]
- Leong, L. M., Yin, Y., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2020). Exploiting asymmetric signals from choices through default selection.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 162-169.
[pdf]
- McKenzie, C. R. M., & Sher, S. (2020). Gamble evaluation and evoked reference sets: Why adding a small loss to a gamble increases
its attractiveness. Cognition, 194. [pdf]
- Donnelly, K., McKenzie, C. R. M., & M ller-Trede, J. (2019). Do publications in low-impact journals help or hurt a CV?
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25, 744-752. [pdf]
- Leong, L. M., McKenzie, C. R. M., Sher, S., & M ller-Trede, J. (2019). Illusory inconsistencies in judgment:
Evoked reference sets and between-subject designs. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 647-653.
[pdf]
- McKenzie, C. R. M., Sher, S., Leong, L. M., & M ller-Trede, J. (2018). Constructed preferences, rationality, and choice architecture.
Review of Behavioral Economics, 5, 337-360. [pdf]
- M ller-Trede, J., Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2018). When payoffs look like probabilities: Separating form
and content in risky choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 662-670.
[pdf]
- Leong, L. M., McKenzie, C. R. M., Sher, S., & M ller-Trede, J. (2017). The role of inference in attribute framing
effects. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, 1147-1156. [pdf]
- McKenzie, C. R. M., Sher, S., M ller-Trede, J., Lin, C., Liersch, M. J., & Rawstron, A. G. (2016). Are longshots only
for losers? A new look at the last race effect. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 29, 25-36.
[pdf]
- M ller-Trede, J., Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2015). Transitivity in context: A rational analysis of intransitive
choice and context-sensitive preference. Decision, 2, 280-305. [pdf]
- Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2014). Options as information: Rational reversals of evaluation and preference.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1127-1143. [pdf]
curriculum vitae
PhD Courses
- Psyc 209: Topics in Judgment and Decision Making (Winter 2022)
Reading List
- Psyc 237: Human Rationality (Winter 2024)
Reading List
- Psyc 272: Selected Topics: Artifacts in Psychological Research (Winter 2015)
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Updated January 7, 2024