Willful Blindness as Mere Evidence

Willful Blindness: The Inefficient Reward Structure in Academic Research

The only reward structure that provides authors an incentive to choose the most efficient sized research teams is strict proration of author credit. Nevertheless, survey evidence indicates that the reward structure used in Economics for at least the last thirty years only incompletely prorates authorship credit, which should lead to inefficiently high levels of coauthorship. A possible reason f...

Structural facilitation: Mere exposure eVects for grammatical acceptability as evidence for syntactic priming in comprehension

In Wve experiments, participants Wrst read grammatical sentences of English and later rated identical, structurally similar, or novel sentences for grammatical acceptability. The experimental method was modeled after “mere exposure” and artiWcial grammar learning paradigms in which preference ratings are enhanced by prior experience with the material. Participants rated sentences as more gramma...

Some evidence for colour-blindness in Octopus.

Evidence for preserved representations in change blindness.

People often fail to detect large changes to scenes, provided that the changes occur during a visual disruption. This phenomenon, known as "change blindness," occurs both in the laboratory and in real-world situations in which changes occur unexpectedly. The pervasiveness of the inability to detect changes is consistent with the theoretical notion that we internally represent relatively little ...

Willful Child Abuse and State Reporting Statutes