The goal of this chapter is to propose that widespread evidence of our failure to achieve individual, organizational and social change may be due, in part, to the impact of automated and unconscious knowledge. After a brief review of the results of personal and collective change programs and the accuracy of self-reported change, the discussion turns to an overview of research on the learning, o...

Older adults were less likely than young adults to spontaneously recollect the source of familiarity for previously read nonfamous names. Older adults were more likely to call old nonfamous names famous when subsequently encountered in a fame judgment task. Poor source monitoring by the elderly could not be accounted for by inability to recognize earlier read nonfamous names when specifically a...

We study several basic properties related to the task of localizing a source using distance-difference measurements to it. These properties enable minimalistic realizations of localization systems. We establish conditions for the unique identification of a source in Euclidean plane, and derive minimum number of sensors needed for unique source identification within the Euclidean plane and a pol...

People with schizophrenia who hallucinate show impairments in reality monitoring (the ability to distinguish internally generated information from information obtained from external sources) compared to non-hallucinating patients and healthy individuals. While this may be explained at least in part by an increased externalizing bias, it remains unclear whether this impairment is specific to rea...

Source monitoring involves judgments regarding the origin of information (M. K. Johnson, S. Hashtroudi, & D. S. Lindsay, 1993). When participants cannot remember the source in a source-monitoring task, they may guess according to their prior schematic knowledge (U. J. Bayen, G. V. Nakamura, S. E. Dupuis, & C.-L. Yang, 2000). The present study aimed at specifying conditions under which schematic...

Children chose either to maintain their initial belief about an object's identity or to accept the experimenter's contradicting suggestion. Both 3-4 and 4-5 year olds were good at accepting the suggestion only when the experimenter was better informed than they were themselves (implicit source monitoring). They were less accurate at recalling both their own and the experimenter's information ac...

The MAGIC collaboration has been performing Target of Opportunity observations of blazars, when seen flaring in optical by Tuorla blazar monitoring program. In past three years, there has been 5 optical alerts during good weather conditions and reasonable declination of the source. Three alerts have resulted in discovery of VHE gamma-rays from previously undetected source. We will introduce the...