‘illusion-of-depth bias’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- Links
- “Can Claude Teach Me to Make Coffee? ”, philh 2025
- “The Shibari Game ”, Miles 2025
- “New Kid in the Classroom: Exploring Student Perceptions of AI Coding Assistants ”, Rojas-Galeano 2025
- “‘Flaky Breakthroughs’ Pervade Coaching—But No One Tracks Them ”, Lakin 2025
- “Comprehension in Economic Games ”, Koppel et al 2025
- “Rampant AI Cheating Is Ruining Education Alarmingly Fast: ChatGPT Has Unraveled the Entire Academic Project ”, Walsh 2025
- “Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It? Technology Should Facilitate Learning, Not Substitute for It ”, Shirky 2025
- “Of Secrets and Seedphrases: Conceptual Misunderstandings and Security Challenges for Seed Phrase Management among Cryptocurrency Users ”, Eleshin et al 2025
- “Superficial Auditory (Dis)fluency Biases Higher-Level Social Judgment ”, Walter-Terrill et al 2025
- “WILLIAM A., a Student, by and through His Parents, E.A. and C.A. v. CLARKSVILLE-MONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM ”, Sutton et al 2025
- “Copying Style, Extracting Value: Illustrators’ Perception of AI Style Transfer and Its Impact on Creative Labor ”, Porquet et al 2024
- “Boxed: Things I Learned After Lying in an MRI Machine for 30 Hours ”, Giancotti 2024
- “AI Meets the Classroom: When Do Large Language Models Harm Learning? ”, Lehmann et al 2024
- “Experts Have It Easy [The Parable of the Maze] ”, Kane 2024
- “Children’s Arithmetic Skills Do Not Transfer between Applied and Academic Mathematics ”, Banerjee et al 2024
- “Deep Aphantasia: a Visual Brain With Minimal Influence from Priors or Inhibitory Feedback? ”, Bouyer & Arnold 2024
- “From Which River to Which Sea? College Students Don’t Know, yet They Agree With the Slogan ”, Hassner 2023
- “The Influence of Philosophical Training on the Evaluation of Philosophical Cases: a Controlled Longitudinal Study ”, Maćkiewicz et al 2023
- “Non-Commitment in Mental Imagery ”, Bigelow et al 2023
- “Are Students Self-Regulating Their Device Usage? The Effects of Off-Task Device Usage in a Classroom Setting ”, Ruppel et al 2023
- “Illusory Post-Traumatic Growth Is Common, but Genuine Post-Traumatic Growth Is Rare: A Critical Review and Suggestions for a Path Forward ”, Boals 2023
- “How Tall Am I Again? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Reliability of Self-Reported Height ”, Evans et al 2023
- “Where Memory Ends and Generative AI Begins: New Photo Manipulation Tools from Google and Adobe Are Blurring the Lines between Real Memories and Those Dreamed up by AI ”, Goode 2023
- “Schrödinger’s Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics ”, Bush 2023
- “How I, a Non-Developer, Read the Tutorial You, a Developer, Wrote for Me, a Beginner ”, Mueller 2023
- “Environmental Knowledge Is Inversely Associated With Climate Change Anxiety ”, Zacher & Rudolph 2023
- “Understanding Why Searching the Internet Inflates Confidence in Explanatory Ability ”, Eliseev & Marsh 2023
- “The Illusion of Insight: Detailed Warnings Reduce but Do Not Prevent False ‘Aha!’ Moments ”, Grimmer et al 2023
- “The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries [From The Visual World of Shadows] ”, Casati & Cavanagh 2023
- “They Don’t Read Very Well: A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities ”
- “Thinking Style and Psychosis Proneness Do Not Predict False Insights ”, Grimmer et al 2022
- “Is Political Extremism Supported by an Illusion of Understanding? ”, Sloman & Vives 2022
- “The Illusion of Stable Fertility Preferences ”, Müller et al 2022
- “The Extreme Illusion of Understanding ”, Lau et al 2022
- “Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior ”, Mazar & Wood 2022
- “Widespread Misperceptions of Long-Term Attitude Change ”, Mastroianni & Dana 2022
- “The Insights Psychedelics Give You Aren’t Always True: The Study of False—Sober—Insights Teaches Us to Be Wary of Accepting Every Realization from Psychedelic Trips without Critical Thinking ”, Love 2022
- “The Human Black-Box: The Illusion of Understanding Human Better Than Algorithmic Decision-Making ”, Bonezzi et al 2022
- “Irrelevant Insights Make Worldviews Ring True ”, Laukkonen et al 2022
- “Human Vision Reconstructs Time to Satisfy Causal Constraints ”, Bechlivanidis et al 2022
- “Perception in Real-Time: Predicting the Present, Reconstructing the Past ”, Hogendoorn 2021
- “The Illusion of Depth ”, Gwern 2021
- “Getting a Grip on Insight: Real-Time and Embodied Aha Experiences Predict Correct Solutions ”, Laukkonen et al 2021
- “Genes, Ideology, and Sophistication ”, Kalmoe & Johnson 2021
- “The Illusion of Absence: How a Common Feature of Magic Shows Can Explain a Class of Road Accidents ”, Ekroll et al 2021
- “What Causes the Insight Memory Advantage? ”, Danek & Wiley 2020
- “Dramatic Changes to Well-Known Places Go Unnoticed ”, Rosenbaum et al 2020
- “Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost: People Really Do Circle past the Same Tree over and over Again—It Doesn’t Just Happen in Movies ”, Bond 2020
- “The Dark Side of Eureka: Artificially Induced Aha Moments Make Facts Feel True ”, Laukkonen et al 2020
- “The Dilution of Precise Concepts ”, Crawford 2020
- “A Comparison of Perceived and Observed Learning From Professional Development: Relationships Among Self-Reports, Direct Assessments, and Teacher Characteristics ”, Copur-Gencturk & Thacker 2020
- “The Illusion of Absence in Magic Tricks ”, Svalebjørg et al 2020
- “When Calculators Lie: A Demonstration of Uncritical Calculator Usage among College Students and Factors That Improve Performance ”, LaCour et al 2019
- “Measuring Actual Learning versus Feeling of Learning in Response to Being Actively Engaged in the Classroom ”, Deslauriers et al 2019
- “The Generative Adversarial Brain ”, Gershman 2019
- “The Overblown Implications Effect ”, Moon et al 2019
- “Knowledge and Sentiments of Roe v. Wade in the Wake of Justice Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the US Supreme Court ”, Jozkowski et al 2019
- “A Perceptual Illusion of Empty Space Can Create a Perceptual Illusion of Levitation ”, Øhrn et al 2019
- “The Devil’s in the g–tails: Deficient Letter-Shape Knowledge and Awareness despite Massive Visual Experience ”, Wong et al 2018
- “Investigating Human Priors for Playing Video Game ”, Dubey et al 2018
- “15 Years of Research on Redirected Walking in Immersive Virtual Environments ”, Nilsson et al 2018
- “Memory and Availability-Biased Metacognitive Illusions for Flags of Varying Familiarity ”
- “Never Repeat the Same Trick Twice—Unless It Is Cognitively Impenetrable ”, Ekroll et al 2018
- “Better Babblers ”, Hanson 2017
- “Exact Instructions Challenge—This Is Why My Kids Hate Me ”, Darnit 2017
- “The Other Side of Magic ”, Ekroll et al 2017
- “The Perceptual and Phenomenal Capacity of Mental Imagery ”, Keogh & Pearson 2017
- “Magicians Fix Your Mind: How Unlikely Solutions Block Obvious Ones ”, Thomas & Didierjean 2016
- “Simulated Thought Insertion: Influencing the Sense of Agency Using Deception and Magic ”, Olson et al 2016
- “Two Mechanisms of Constructive Recollection: Perceptual Recombination and Conceptual Fluency ”, Doss et al 2016
- “Intuitive Feelings of Warmth and Confidence in Insight and Non-Insight Problem Solving of Magic Tricks ”, Hedne et al 2016
- “A Social Chemosignaling Function for Human Handshaking ”, Frumin et al 2015
- “When People Remember Dreams They Never Experienced: A Study of the Malleability of Dream Recall over Time ”, Beaulieu-Prévost & Zadra 2015
- “The Case of the Case of Benny: Elucidating the Influence of a Landmark Study in Mathematics Education ”, Leatham & Winiecke 2014
- “The Spacing Effect and Metacognitive Control ”
- “Political Extremism Is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding ”
- “Choice Blindness and Preference Change: You Will Like This Paper Better If You (Believe You) Chose to Read It! ”, Johansson et al 2013
- “Witnesses’ Blindness for Their Own Facial Recognition Decisions: A Field Study ”, Sagana et al 2013
- “How the Polls Can Be Both Spot On and Dead Wrong: Using Choice Blindness to Shift Political Attitudes and Voter Intentions ”, Hall et al 2013
- “General Knowledge Norms: Updated and Expanded from the Nelson & Narens 1980 Norms ”, Tauber et al 2013
- “Self-Regulated Learning: Beliefs, Techniques, and Illusions ”
- “Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking Than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today ”, Horvath et al 2012
- “Lifting the Veil of Morality: Choice Blindness and Attitude Reversals on a Self-Transforming Survey ”, Hall et al 2012
- “A Century of Imagery Research: Reflections on Cheves Perky’s Contribution to Our Understanding of Mental Imagery ”, Waller et al 2012
- “I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher ”, Stillwater 2012
- “The Last Magic Show: A Blind Brain Theory of the Appearance of Consciousness ”, Bakker 2012
- “Teller Reveals His Secrets: The Smaller, Quieter Half of the Magician Duo Penn & Teller Writes about How Magicians Manipulate the Human Mind ”, Teller 2012
- “Distributed Learning: Data, Metacognition, and Educational Implications ”
- “A Qualitative Study of Agricultural Literacy in Urban Youth: What Do Elementary Students Understand about the Agri-Food System? § Table 2: Number and Percentage of Informants Correctly Stating Cheeseburger Origin ”, Hess & Trexler 2011 (page 5)
- “Magic at the Marketplace: Choice Blindness for the Taste of Jam and the Smell of Tea ”, Hall et al 2010
- “Design and Validation of the Quantum Mechanics Conceptual Survey ”, McKagan et al 2010
- “Self-Assessment of Knowledge: A Cognitive Learning or Affective Measure? ”, Sitzmann et al 2010
- “Hyper-Priming in Cannabis Users: A Naturalistic Study of the Effects of Cannabis on Semantic Memory Function ”, Morgan et al 2010
- “Theory of Change ”, Swartz 2010
- “Optimizing Retrieval As a Learning Event: When and Why Expanding Retrieval Practice Enhances Long-Term Retention ”, Storm et al 2010
- “Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree ”, Kahneman & Klein 2009
- “Optimising Learning Using Flashcards: Spacing Is More Effective Than Cramming ”, Kornell 2009
- “Applying the Principles of Adult Learning to the Teaching of Psychopharmacology: Overview and Finding the Focus ”, Stahl & Davis 2009
- “Long-Term Memory for the Terrorist Attack of September 11: Flashbulb Memories, Event Memories, and the Factors That Influence Their Retention ”, Hirst et al 2009
- “Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic: Turning Tricks into Research ”, Macknik et al 2008
- “The Unreliability of Naive Introspection ”, Schwitzgebel 2008
- “Knowledge Retention After an Online Tutorial: a Randomized Educational Experiment among Resident Physicians ”, Bell et al 2008
- “False Memory 1⁄20th of a Second Later: What the Early Onset of Boundary Extension Reveals about Perception ”, Intraub & Dickinson 2008
- “Enhancing Learning and Retarding Forgetting: Choices and Consequences ”, Pashler et al 2007
- “Do You Have Constant Tactile Experience of Your Feet in Your Shoes?: Or Is Experience Limited to What’s in Attention? ”, Schwitzgebel 2007
- “Discovery Misattribution: When Solving Is Confused With Remembering ”, Dougal & Schooler 2007
- “The Science of Cycology: Failures to Understand How Everyday Objects Work ”, Lawson 2006
- “Manic Thinking: Independent Effects of Thought Speed and Thought Content on Mood ”, Pronin & Wegner 2006
- “Failure to Detect Mismatches Between Intention and Outcome in a Simple Decision Task ”, Johansson et al 2005
- “Knowing the Limits of One’s Understanding: The Development of an Awareness of an Illusion of Explanatory Depth ”, Mills & Keil 2004
- “Meta-Atheism: Religious Avowal As Self-Deception ”, Rey 2004
- “Folkscience: Coarse Interpretations of a Complex Reality ”, Keil 2003
- “Naive Optics: Predicting and Perceiving Reflections in Mirrors ”, Bertamini et al 2003
- “Why Did We Think We Dreamed in Black and White? ”, Schwitzgebel 2002
- “Increasing Confidence in Remote Autobiographical Memory and General Knowledge: Extensions of the Revelation Effect ”, Bernstein et al 2002
- “The Misunderstood Limits of Folk Science: an Illusion of Explanatory Depth ”, Rozenblit & Keil 2002
- “Scattered Naive Theories: Why the Human Mind Is Isomorphic to the Internet Web ”, Leiser 2001
- “Metacognition in Motor Learning ”
- “How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation ”, Schwitzgebel & Gordon 2000
- “Just How ‘Blind’ Are We to Advertising Banners on the Web? ”, Bayles 2000
- “Memory for Everyday Objects: Where Are the Digits on Numerical Keypads? ”, Rinck 1999
- “The Fire That Comes from the Eye ”, Gross 1999
- “Impact of Formal Continuing Medical Education: Do Conferences, Workshops, Rounds, and Other Traditional Continuing Education Activities Change Physician Behavior or Health Care Outcomes? ”, Davis 1999
- “The Mismeasure of Memory: When Retrieval Fluency Is Misleading As a Meta-Mnemonic Index ”, Benjamin et al 1998
- “The Shadows and Shallows of Explanation ”, Wilson & Keil 1998
- “Does CME Work? An Analysis of the Effect of Educational Activities on Physician Performance or Health Care Outcomes ”, Davis 1998
- “Beliefs of Children and Adults About Feeling Stares of Unseen Others ”, Cottrell et al 1996
- “Agnosia, Alexia and a Remarkable Form of Amnesia in an Adolescent Boy ”, Vargha-Khadem et al 1994
- “Does the Sensitivity of Judgments of Learning (JOLs) to the Effects of Various Study Activities Depend on When the JOLs Occur? ”
- “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart ”, Wallace 1994
- “Memory and Metamemory Considerations in the Training of Human Beings ”
- “Pilot Study of Agricultural Literacy: Final Report § Table 4: Percentage of Respondents Answering Agricultural Knowledge Statements Correctly and Incorrectly ”, Birkenholz 1993 (page 36)
- “Kirby’s Adventure: 1993 Developer Interview [Drawing Kirby from Memory] ”, Sakurai et al 1993
- “Influence of Animation on Dynamical Judgments ”, Kaiser et al 1992
- “Force Concept Inventory ”
- “The Rocky Road from Actions to Intentions ”, Newton 1990
- “Being Really, Really Certain You Know the Main Idea Doesn’t Mean You Do ”, Pressley et al 1990
- “Confabulations and the Frontal Systems: Strategic versus Associative Retrieval in Neuropsychological Theories of Memory ”, Moscovitch 1989
- “What’s Wrong With This Lagrangean? ”, Mermin 1988
- “Two Theories of Home Heat Control ”, Kempton 1986
- “Norms of 300 General-Information Questions: Accuracy of Recall, Latency of Recall, and Feeling-Of-Knowing Ratings ”, Nelson & Narens 1980
- “Long-Term Memory for a Common Object [A Penny] ”, Nickerson & Adams 1979
- “Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes ”, Nisbett & Wilson 1977
- “Benny’s Conception of Rules and Answers in IPI Mathematics ”, Erlwanger 1973
- “The Problem Of Teaching Physics In Latin America ”, Feynman 1963
- “An Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior ”, Heider & Simmel 1944
- Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment, Richards 1929
- “Human or Machine: A Subjective Comparison of Piet Mondrian’s ‘Composition With Lines’ (1917) and a Computer-Generated Picture ”, Noll 1917
- “The ‘Feeling of Being Stared At’ ”, Titchener 1898
- “Memory Predictions Are Influenced by Perceptual Information: Evidence for Metacognitive Illusions ”
- “Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail ”
- “Zones of Exclusion ”
- “Noodle Incident ”, Calvin & Wiki 2026
- “Very Long Term Retention of Knowledge ”
- “Why Don’t Schools Teach Debugging? ”, Luu 2026
- “Why Is It So Hard to Draw From Imagination? Here’s How to Do It! ”
- “College English Majors Can’t Read ”
- “The Door Problem ”
- “The Initial Knowledge State of College Physics Students ”
- “Causal Understanding Is Not Necessary for the Improvement of Culturally Evolving Technology ”
- “The Science of Cycology: Can You Draw a Bicycle? ”
- “Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences ”
- “The Public Thinks the Average Company Makes a 36% Profit Margin, Which Is About 5× Too High ”
- “Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low! ”
- “Guessing the Teacher’s Password ”
- “Double Illusion of Transparency ”
- “Illusion of Transparency ”
- “Inferential Distance ”
- “LW Tag: Good Explanations (Advice) ”
- “Branded in Memory ”
- “Things I Have Drawn Is a Site in Which the Things Kids Draw Are Real. ”
- “The Changing Room Illusion ”
- Sort By Magic
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- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“Dreams Don’t Matter Morally ”, Gwern 2021
Links
“Can Claude Teach Me to Make Coffee? ”, philh 2025
“The Shibari Game ”, Miles 2025
“New Kid in the Classroom: Exploring Student Perceptions of AI Coding Assistants ”, Rojas-Galeano 2025
New Kid in the Classroom: Exploring Student Perceptions of AI Coding Assistants
“‘Flaky Breakthroughs’ Pervade Coaching—But No One Tracks Them ”, Lakin 2025
‘Flaky breakthroughs’ pervade coaching—but no one tracks them
“Comprehension in Economic Games ”, Koppel et al 2025
“Rampant AI Cheating Is Ruining Education Alarmingly Fast: ChatGPT Has Unraveled the Entire Academic Project ”, Walsh 2025
“Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It? Technology Should Facilitate Learning, Not Substitute for It ”, Shirky 2025
“Of Secrets and Seedphrases: Conceptual Misunderstandings and Security Challenges for Seed Phrase Management among Cryptocurrency Users ”, Eleshin et al 2025
“Superficial Auditory (Dis)fluency Biases Higher-Level Social Judgment ”, Walter-Terrill et al 2025
Superficial auditory (dis)fluency biases higher-level social judgment
“WILLIAM A., a Student, by and through His Parents, E.A. and C.A. v. CLARKSVILLE-MONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM ”, Sutton et al 2025
“Copying Style, Extracting Value: Illustrators’ Perception of AI Style Transfer and Its Impact on Creative Labor ”, Porquet et al 2024
“Boxed: Things I Learned After Lying in an MRI Machine for 30 Hours ”, Giancotti 2024
Boxed: Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours
“AI Meets the Classroom: When Do Large Language Models Harm Learning? ”, Lehmann et al 2024
AI Meets the Classroom: When Do Large Language Models Harm Learning?
“Experts Have It Easy [The Parable of the Maze] ”, Kane 2024
“Children’s Arithmetic Skills Do Not Transfer between Applied and Academic Mathematics ”, Banerjee et al 2024
Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics
“Deep Aphantasia: a Visual Brain With Minimal Influence from Priors or Inhibitory Feedback? ”, Bouyer & Arnold 2024
Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors or inhibitory feedback?
“From Which River to Which Sea? College Students Don’t Know, yet They Agree With the Slogan ”, Hassner 2023
From Which River to Which Sea? College students don’t know, yet they agree with the slogan
“The Influence of Philosophical Training on the Evaluation of Philosophical Cases: a Controlled Longitudinal Study ”, Maćkiewicz et al 2023
“Non-Commitment in Mental Imagery ”, Bigelow et al 2023
“Are Students Self-Regulating Their Device Usage? The Effects of Off-Task Device Usage in a Classroom Setting ”, Ruppel et al 2023
“Illusory Post-Traumatic Growth Is Common, but Genuine Post-Traumatic Growth Is Rare: A Critical Review and Suggestions for a Path Forward ”, Boals 2023
“How Tall Am I Again? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Reliability of Self-Reported Height ”, Evans et al 2023
How tall am I again? A longitudinal analysis of the reliability of self-reported height
“Where Memory Ends and Generative AI Begins: New Photo Manipulation Tools from Google and Adobe Are Blurring the Lines between Real Memories and Those Dreamed up by AI ”, Goode 2023
“Schrödinger’s Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics ”, Bush 2023
Schrödinger’s Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics
“How I, a Non-Developer, Read the Tutorial You, a Developer, Wrote for Me, a Beginner ”, Mueller 2023
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner
“Environmental Knowledge Is Inversely Associated With Climate Change Anxiety ”, Zacher & Rudolph 2023
Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety
“Understanding Why Searching the Internet Inflates Confidence in Explanatory Ability ”, Eliseev & Marsh 2023
Understanding why searching the internet inflates confidence in explanatory ability
“The Illusion of Insight: Detailed Warnings Reduce but Do Not Prevent False ‘Aha!’ Moments ”, Grimmer et al 2023
The illusion of insight: detailed warnings reduce but do not prevent false ‘Aha!’ moments
“The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries [From The Visual World of Shadows] ”, Casati & Cavanagh 2023
“They Don’t Read Very Well: A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities ”
“Thinking Style and Psychosis Proneness Do Not Predict False Insights ”, Grimmer et al 2022
Thinking style and psychosis proneness do not predict false insights
“Is Political Extremism Supported by an Illusion of Understanding? ”, Sloman & Vives 2022
Is political extremism supported by an illusion of understanding?
“The Illusion of Stable Fertility Preferences ”, Müller et al 2022
“The Extreme Illusion of Understanding ”, Lau et al 2022
“Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior ”, Mazar & Wood 2022
Illusory Feelings, Elusive Habits: People Overlook Habits in Explanations of Behavior
“Widespread Misperceptions of Long-Term Attitude Change ”, Mastroianni & Dana 2022
“The Insights Psychedelics Give You Aren’t Always True: The Study of False—Sober—Insights Teaches Us to Be Wary of Accepting Every Realization from Psychedelic Trips without Critical Thinking ”, Love 2022
“The Human Black-Box: The Illusion of Understanding Human Better Than Algorithmic Decision-Making ”, Bonezzi et al 2022
The Human Black-Box: The Illusion of Understanding Human Better Than Algorithmic Decision-Making
“Irrelevant Insights Make Worldviews Ring True ”, Laukkonen et al 2022
“Human Vision Reconstructs Time to Satisfy Causal Constraints ”, Bechlivanidis et al 2022
Human Vision Reconstructs Time to Satisfy Causal Constraints
“Perception in Real-Time: Predicting the Present, Reconstructing the Past ”, Hogendoorn 2021
Perception in real-time: predicting the present, reconstructing the past
“The Illusion of Depth ”, Gwern 2021
“Getting a Grip on Insight: Real-Time and Embodied Aha Experiences Predict Correct Solutions ”, Laukkonen et al 2021
Getting a grip on insight: real-time and embodied Aha experiences predict correct solutions
“Genes, Ideology, and Sophistication ”, Kalmoe & Johnson 2021
“The Illusion of Absence: How a Common Feature of Magic Shows Can Explain a Class of Road Accidents ”, Ekroll et al 2021
The illusion of absence: how a common feature of magic shows can explain a class of road accidents
“What Causes the Insight Memory Advantage? ”, Danek & Wiley 2020
“Dramatic Changes to Well-Known Places Go Unnoticed ”, Rosenbaum et al 2020
“Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost: People Really Do Circle past the Same Tree over and over Again—It Doesn’t Just Happen in Movies ”, Bond 2020
“The Dark Side of Eureka: Artificially Induced Aha Moments Make Facts Feel True ”, Laukkonen et al 2020
The dark side of Eureka: Artificially induced Aha moments make facts feel true
“The Dilution of Precise Concepts ”, Crawford 2020
The dilution of precise concepts
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“A Comparison of Perceived and Observed Learning From Professional Development: Relationships Among Self-Reports, Direct Assessments, and Teacher Characteristics ”, Copur-Gencturk & Thacker 2020
“The Illusion of Absence in Magic Tricks ”, Svalebjørg et al 2020
“When Calculators Lie: A Demonstration of Uncritical Calculator Usage among College Students and Factors That Improve Performance ”, LaCour et al 2019
“Measuring Actual Learning versus Feeling of Learning in Response to Being Actively Engaged in the Classroom ”, Deslauriers et al 2019
“The Generative Adversarial Brain ”, Gershman 2019
“The Overblown Implications Effect ”, Moon et al 2019
“Knowledge and Sentiments of Roe v. Wade in the Wake of Justice Kavanaugh’s Nomination to the US Supreme Court ”, Jozkowski et al 2019
“A Perceptual Illusion of Empty Space Can Create a Perceptual Illusion of Levitation ”, Øhrn et al 2019
A Perceptual Illusion of Empty Space Can Create a Perceptual Illusion of Levitation
“The Devil’s in the g–tails: Deficient Letter-Shape Knowledge and Awareness despite Massive Visual Experience ”, Wong et al 2018
“Investigating Human Priors for Playing Video Game ”, Dubey et al 2018
“15 Years of Research on Redirected Walking in Immersive Virtual Environments ”, Nilsson et al 2018
15 Years of Research on Redirected Walking in Immersive Virtual Environments
“Memory and Availability-Biased Metacognitive Illusions for Flags of Varying Familiarity ”
Memory and availability-biased metacognitive illusions for flags of varying familiarity
“Never Repeat the Same Trick Twice—Unless It Is Cognitively Impenetrable ”, Ekroll et al 2018
Never Repeat the Same Trick Twice—Unless it is Cognitively Impenetrable
“Better Babblers ”, Hanson 2017
“Exact Instructions Challenge—This Is Why My Kids Hate Me ”, Darnit 2017
“The Other Side of Magic ”, Ekroll et al 2017
“The Perceptual and Phenomenal Capacity of Mental Imagery ”, Keogh & Pearson 2017
“Magicians Fix Your Mind: How Unlikely Solutions Block Obvious Ones ”, Thomas & Didierjean 2016
Magicians fix your mind: How unlikely solutions block obvious ones
“Simulated Thought Insertion: Influencing the Sense of Agency Using Deception and Magic ”, Olson et al 2016
Simulated thought insertion: Influencing the sense of agency using deception and magic
“Two Mechanisms of Constructive Recollection: Perceptual Recombination and Conceptual Fluency ”, Doss et al 2016
Two mechanisms of constructive recollection: Perceptual recombination and conceptual fluency
“Intuitive Feelings of Warmth and Confidence in Insight and Non-Insight Problem Solving of Magic Tricks ”, Hedne et al 2016
“A Social Chemosignaling Function for Human Handshaking ”, Frumin et al 2015
“When People Remember Dreams They Never Experienced: A Study of the Malleability of Dream Recall over Time ”, Beaulieu-Prévost & Zadra 2015
“The Case of the Case of Benny: Elucidating the Influence of a Landmark Study in Mathematics Education ”, Leatham & Winiecke 2014
“The Spacing Effect and Metacognitive Control ”
“Political Extremism Is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding ”
Political Extremism Is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding
“Choice Blindness and Preference Change: You Will Like This Paper Better If You (Believe You) Chose to Read It! ”, Johansson et al 2013
“Witnesses’ Blindness for Their Own Facial Recognition Decisions: A Field Study ”, Sagana et al 2013
Witnesses’ Blindness for their Own Facial Recognition Decisions: A Field Study
“How the Polls Can Be Both Spot On and Dead Wrong: Using Choice Blindness to Shift Political Attitudes and Voter Intentions ”, Hall et al 2013
“General Knowledge Norms: Updated and Expanded from the Nelson & Narens 1980 Norms ”, Tauber et al 2013
General knowledge norms: Updated and expanded from the Nelson & Narens 1980 norms
“Self-Regulated Learning: Beliefs, Techniques, and Illusions ”
Self-Regulated Learning: Beliefs, Techniques, and Illusions :
“Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking Than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today ”, Horvath et al 2012
“Lifting the Veil of Morality: Choice Blindness and Attitude Reversals on a Self-Transforming Survey ”, Hall et al 2012
Lifting the Veil of Morality: Choice Blindness and Attitude Reversals on a Self-Transforming Survey
“A Century of Imagery Research: Reflections on Cheves Perky’s Contribution to Our Understanding of Mental Imagery ”, Waller et al 2012
“I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher ”, Stillwater 2012
“The Last Magic Show: A Blind Brain Theory of the Appearance of Consciousness ”, Bakker 2012
The Last Magic Show: A Blind Brain Theory of the Appearance of Consciousness
“Teller Reveals His Secrets: The Smaller, Quieter Half of the Magician Duo Penn & Teller Writes about How Magicians Manipulate the Human Mind ”, Teller 2012
“Distributed Learning: Data, Metacognition, and Educational Implications ”
Distributed Learning: Data, Metacognition, and Educational Implications :
“A Qualitative Study of Agricultural Literacy in Urban Youth: What Do Elementary Students Understand about the Agri-Food System? § Table 2: Number and Percentage of Informants Correctly Stating Cheeseburger Origin ”, Hess & Trexler 2011 (page 5)
“Magic at the Marketplace: Choice Blindness for the Taste of Jam and the Smell of Tea ”, Hall et al 2010
Magic at the marketplace: Choice blindness for the taste of jam and the smell of tea
“Design and Validation of the Quantum Mechanics Conceptual Survey ”, McKagan et al 2010
Design and validation of the Quantum Mechanics Conceptual Survey
“Self-Assessment of Knowledge: A Cognitive Learning or Affective Measure? ”, Sitzmann et al 2010
Self-Assessment of Knowledge: A Cognitive Learning or Affective Measure?
“Hyper-Priming in Cannabis Users: A Naturalistic Study of the Effects of Cannabis on Semantic Memory Function ”, Morgan et al 2010
“Theory of Change ”, Swartz 2010
“Optimizing Retrieval As a Learning Event: When and Why Expanding Retrieval Practice Enhances Long-Term Retention ”, Storm et al 2010
“Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree ”, Kahneman & Klein 2009
“Optimising Learning Using Flashcards: Spacing Is More Effective Than Cramming ”, Kornell 2009
Optimising Learning Using Flashcards: Spacing Is More Effective Than Cramming
“Applying the Principles of Adult Learning to the Teaching of Psychopharmacology: Overview and Finding the Focus ”, Stahl & Davis 2009
“Long-Term Memory for the Terrorist Attack of September 11: Flashbulb Memories, Event Memories, and the Factors That Influence Their Retention ”, Hirst et al 2009
“Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic: Turning Tricks into Research ”, Macknik et al 2008
Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research
“The Unreliability of Naive Introspection ”, Schwitzgebel 2008
“Knowledge Retention After an Online Tutorial: a Randomized Educational Experiment among Resident Physicians ”, Bell et al 2008
“False Memory 1⁄20th of a Second Later: What the Early Onset of Boundary Extension Reveals about Perception ”, Intraub & Dickinson 2008
“Enhancing Learning and Retarding Forgetting: Choices and Consequences ”, Pashler et al 2007
Enhancing learning and retarding forgetting: Choices and consequences
“Do You Have Constant Tactile Experience of Your Feet in Your Shoes?: Or Is Experience Limited to What’s in Attention? ”, Schwitzgebel 2007
“Discovery Misattribution: When Solving Is Confused With Remembering ”, Dougal & Schooler 2007
Discovery misattribution: When solving is confused with remembering
“The Science of Cycology: Failures to Understand How Everyday Objects Work ”, Lawson 2006
The science of cycology: Failures to understand how everyday objects work
“Manic Thinking: Independent Effects of Thought Speed and Thought Content on Mood ”, Pronin & Wegner 2006
Manic Thinking: Independent Effects of Thought Speed and Thought Content on Mood
“Failure to Detect Mismatches Between Intention and Outcome in a Simple Decision Task ”, Johansson et al 2005
Failure to Detect Mismatches Between Intention and Outcome in a Simple Decision Task
“Knowing the Limits of One’s Understanding: The Development of an Awareness of an Illusion of Explanatory Depth ”, Mills & Keil 2004
“Meta-Atheism: Religious Avowal As Self-Deception ”, Rey 2004
“Folkscience: Coarse Interpretations of a Complex Reality ”, Keil 2003
“Naive Optics: Predicting and Perceiving Reflections in Mirrors ”, Bertamini et al 2003
Naive Optics: Predicting and Perceiving Reflections in Mirrors
“Why Did We Think We Dreamed in Black and White? ”, Schwitzgebel 2002
“Increasing Confidence in Remote Autobiographical Memory and General Knowledge: Extensions of the Revelation Effect ”, Bernstein et al 2002
“The Misunderstood Limits of Folk Science: an Illusion of Explanatory Depth ”, Rozenblit & Keil 2002
The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth
“Scattered Naive Theories: Why the Human Mind Is Isomorphic to the Internet Web ”, Leiser 2001
Scattered naive theories: why the human mind is isomorphic to the internet web
“Metacognition in Motor Learning ”
“How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation ”, Schwitzgebel & Gordon 2000
How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation
“Just How ‘Blind’ Are We to Advertising Banners on the Web? ”, Bayles 2000
“Memory for Everyday Objects: Where Are the Digits on Numerical Keypads? ”, Rinck 1999
Memory for everyday objects: where are the digits on numerical keypads?
“The Fire That Comes from the Eye ”, Gross 1999
“Impact of Formal Continuing Medical Education: Do Conferences, Workshops, Rounds, and Other Traditional Continuing Education Activities Change Physician Behavior or Health Care Outcomes? ”, Davis 1999
“The Mismeasure of Memory: When Retrieval Fluency Is Misleading As a Meta-Mnemonic Index ”, Benjamin et al 1998
The mismeasure of memory: When retrieval fluency is misleading as a meta-mnemonic index
“The Shadows and Shallows of Explanation ”, Wilson & Keil 1998
“Does CME Work? An Analysis of the Effect of Educational Activities on Physician Performance or Health Care Outcomes ”, Davis 1998
“Beliefs of Children and Adults About Feeling Stares of Unseen Others ”, Cottrell et al 1996
Beliefs of Children and Adults About Feeling Stares of Unseen Others
“Agnosia, Alexia and a Remarkable Form of Amnesia in an Adolescent Boy ”, Vargha-Khadem et al 1994
Agnosia, alexia and a remarkable form of amnesia in an adolescent boy
“Does the Sensitivity of Judgments of Learning (JOLs) to the Effects of Various Study Activities Depend on When the JOLs Occur? ”
“How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart ”, Wallace 1994
“Memory and Metamemory Considerations in the Training of Human Beings ”
Memory and Metamemory Considerations in the Training of Human Beings :
“Pilot Study of Agricultural Literacy: Final Report § Table 4: Percentage of Respondents Answering Agricultural Knowledge Statements Correctly and Incorrectly ”, Birkenholz 1993 (page 36)
“Kirby’s Adventure: 1993 Developer Interview [Drawing Kirby from Memory] ”, Sakurai et al 1993
Kirby’s Adventure: 1993 Developer Interview [drawing Kirby from memory]
“Influence of Animation on Dynamical Judgments ”, Kaiser et al 1992
“Force Concept Inventory ”
“The Rocky Road from Actions to Intentions ”, Newton 1990
“Being Really, Really Certain You Know the Main Idea Doesn’t Mean You Do ”, Pressley et al 1990
Being really, really certain you know the main idea doesn’t mean you do
“Confabulations and the Frontal Systems: Strategic versus Associative Retrieval in Neuropsychological Theories of Memory ”, Moscovitch 1989
“What’s Wrong With This Lagrangean? ”, Mermin 1988
“Two Theories of Home Heat Control ”, Kempton 1986
“Norms of 300 General-Information Questions: Accuracy of Recall, Latency of Recall, and Feeling-Of-Knowing Ratings ”, Nelson & Narens 1980
“Long-Term Memory for a Common Object [A Penny] ”, Nickerson & Adams 1979
“Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes ”, Nisbett & Wilson 1977
Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes
“Benny’s Conception of Rules and Answers in IPI Mathematics ”, Erlwanger 1973
“The Problem Of Teaching Physics In Latin America ”, Feynman 1963
“An Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior ”, Heider & Simmel 1944
Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment, Richards 1929
“Human or Machine: A Subjective Comparison of Piet Mondrian’s ‘Composition With Lines’ (1917) and a Computer-Generated Picture ”, Noll 1917
“The ‘Feeling of Being Stared At’ ”, Titchener 1898
“Memory Predictions Are Influenced by Perceptual Information: Evidence for Metacognitive Illusions ”
Memory predictions are influenced by perceptual information: evidence for metacognitive illusions :
“Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail ”
“Zones of Exclusion ”
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“Noodle Incident ”, Calvin & Wiki 2026
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“Very Long Term Retention of Knowledge ”
“Why Don’t Schools Teach Debugging? ”, Luu 2026
Why don’t schools teach debugging?
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“Why Is It So Hard to Draw From Imagination? Here’s How to Do It! ”
Why Is It So Hard to Draw From Imagination? Here’s How to Do It!
“College English Majors Can’t Read ”
“The Door Problem ”
“The Initial Knowledge State of College Physics Students ”
“Causal Understanding Is Not Necessary for the Improvement of Culturally Evolving Technology ”
Causal understanding is not necessary for the improvement of culturally evolving technology
“The Science of Cycology: Can You Draw a Bicycle? ”
“Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences ”
Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences
“The Public Thinks the Average Company Makes a 36% Profit Margin, Which Is About 5× Too High ”
The Public Thinks the Average Company Makes a 36% Profit Margin, Which Is About 5× Too High
“Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low! ”
“Guessing the Teacher’s Password ”
“Double Illusion of Transparency ”
“Illusion of Transparency ”
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“LW Tag: Good Explanations (Advice) ”
“Branded in Memory ”
“Things I Have Drawn Is a Site in Which the Things Kids Draw Are Real. ”
Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real.
“The Changing Room Illusion ”
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