Barbara A. Spellman                        

                                                       Publications

 

      Books

 

Spellman, B. A., & Willingham, D. T.  (Eds).  (2005).  Current Directions in Cognitive Science:  Readings from the American Psychological Society.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education / Prentice Hall.

 

      Articles and Chapters

 

Spellman, B. A., DeLoache, J., & Bjork, R. A.  (in press).  Making claims in papers and talks.  To appear in Critical Thinking in Psychology. Edited by R. J. Sternberg, H. L. Roediger, & D. Halpern.  Cambridge University Press.

 

Goedert, K. M., Harsch, J., & Spellman, B. A.  (2005).  Discounting and conditionalization: Dissociable cognitive processes in human causal inference.  Psychological Science, 16, 590-595.

 

Spellman, B. A., Kincannon, A., & Stose, S.  (2005).  The relation between counterfactual and causal reasoning.  In D. R. Mandel, D. J. Hilton, & P. Catellani (Eds.), The psychology of counterfactual thinking (pp. 28-43).  London:  Routledge Research.

 

Robinson, P. H., & Spellman, B. A.  (2005).  Sentencing decisions:  Matching the decisionmaker to the decision nature.  Columbia Law Review, 105(4), 1124-1161.

 

Goedert, K. M., & Spellman, B. A.  (2005).  Non-normative discounting:  There is more to cue-interaction effects than controlling for alternative causes.  Learning & Behavior, 33, 197-210.

 

Spellman, B. A.  (2004).  Reflections of a recovering lawyer: How becoming a cognitive psychologist -- and (in particular) studying analogical and causal reasoning -- changed my views about the field of psychology and law.  Chicago-Kent Law Review, 79(3), 1187-1214.

 

Dunn, E. W., & Spellman, B. A.  (2003).  Forgetting by remembering: Stereotype inhibition through rehearsal of alternative aspects of identity.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 39, 420-433.

 

Kincannon, A., & Spellman, B. A.  (2003).  The use of category and similarity information in limiting hypotheses.  Memory & Cognition, 31, 114-132.

 

Spellman, B. A., & Mandel, D. R.  (2003).  Causal reasoning, psychology of.  In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Vol 1, pp. 461-466).  London:  Nature Publishing Group.

 

Green, A. J., Spellman, B. A., Dusek, J. A., Eichenbaum, H., & Levy, W. G.  (2001).  Relational learning with and without awareness:  Transitive inference using non-verbal stimuli in humans.  Memory & Cognition, 29, 893-902.

 

Spellman, B. A., & Kincannon, A.  (2001).  The relation between counterfactual ("but for") and causal reasoning:  Experimental findings and implications for jurors' decisions.  Law and Contemporary Problems: Causation in Law and Science, 64(4), 241-264.

 

Spellman, B. A., Holyoak, K. J., & Morrison, R. G.  (2001).  Analogical priming via semantic relations.  Memory & Cognition, 29, 383-393.  [lead article]

 

Spellman, B. A., Price, C. M., & Logan, J.  (2001).  How two causes are different from one:  The use of (un)conditional information in SimpsonŐs paradox.  Memory & Cognition, 29, 193-208.  [lead article]

 

Cohen, L. B., Rundell, L. J., Spellman, B. A., & Cashon, C. H.  (1999).  InfantsŐ perception of causal chains.  Psychological Science, 10, 412-418.

 

Spellman, B. A., & Mandel, D. R.  (1999).  When possibility informs reality:  Counterfactual thinking as a cue to causality.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 120-123.

 

Spellman, B. A., L—pez, A., & Smith, E. E.  (1999).  Hypothesis testing:  Strategy selection for generalizing versus limiting hypotheses.  Thinking & Reasoning, 5, 67-91.

 

Spellman, B. A.  (1997).  Crediting causality.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  General, 126, 323-348.  [Received   APA Division 3 (Experimental Psychology) 1998 New Investigator Award for best paper in Journal of Experimental Psychology:  General.]

 

Spellman, B. A., & Holyoak, K. J.  (1996).  Pragmatics in analogical mapping.  Cognitive Psychology, 31, 307-366.

 

Spellman, B. A.  (1996).  Acting as intuitive scientists:  Contingency judgments are made while controlling for alternative potential causes.  Psychological Science, 7, 337-342.

 

Spellman, B. A.  (1996).  Conditionalizing causality.  In D. R. Shanks, K. J. Holyoak, & D. L. Medin (Eds.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 34: Causal Learning (pp. 167-206).  San Diego:  Academic.

 

Anderson, M. C., & Spellman, B. A.  (1995).  On the status of inhibitory mechanisms in cognition:  Memory retrieval as a model case.  Psychological Review, 102, 68-100.

 

Spellman, B. A., Ullman, J. B., & Holyoak, K. J.  (1993).  A coherence model of cognitive consistency:  Dynamics of attitude change during the Persian Gulf War.  Journal of Social Issues, 49(4), 147-165.

 

Holyoak, K. J., & Spellman, B. A.  (1993).  Thinking.  Annual Review of Psychology, 44, 265-315.

 

Spellman, B. A., & Holyoak, K. J.  (1992).  If Saddam is Hitler then who is George Bush?  Analogical mapping between systems of social roles.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 913-933.

 

      Commentaries                                                                                                              

 

Spellman, B. A.  (1996).  The implicit use of base rates in experiential and ecologically valid tasks.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 38.

 

Spellman, B. A.  (1993).  Implicit learning of base rates:  Commentary on Koehler on Base-Rate. Psycoloquy, 4(61).

 

Spellman, B. A., & Bjork, R. A.  (1992).  When predictions create reality:  Judgments of learning may alter what they are intended to assess.  Psychological Science, 3, 315-316.

 

      Short reports

 

Spellman, B. A.  (2004).  The relations between causal (x2) and counterfactual reasoning, the hindsight bias, and regret.  In K. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.  39). Mahwah, NJ:  Erlbaum.

 

Levy, W. B., Wu, X., Greene, A. J., & Spellman, B. A.  (2002).  A source of individual variation.  Neurocomputing.  Proceedings of the Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS02), Chicago, July 2002.

 

Morrison, R. G., Holyoak, K. J., & Spellman, B. A.  (2000).  Analogical priming in a word naming task.  In L. Gleitman & A. Joshi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 1045).  Mahwah, NJ:  Erlbaum.

 

Kincannon, A., & Spellman, B. A.  (1999).  Selecting evidence to limit hypotheses.  In M. Hahn & S. C. Stoness (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 798).  Mahwah, NJ:  Erlbaum.

 

Spellman, B. A., & Holyoak, K. J.  (1993).  An inhibitory mechanism for goal-directed analogical mapping.  Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 947-952).  Hillsdale, NJ:  Erlbaum.

 

      Specialty magazines and popular press (articles and letters to the editor)

 

Spellman, B. A.  (March 2005).  Could reality shows become reality experiments?  Observer: Published by the American Psychological Society, 18(3), pp. 34-35.

 

Spellman, B. A.  (July/August 2001).  Got the IRB blues?  Some things you can do.  Observer: Published by the American Psychological Society, 14(6), pp. 5-6.

 

Spellman, B. A.  (October 1996).  Degree of difficulty.  [Letter to the editor on the misuse of probability information by a lawyer to a client.] American Bar Association Journal, p. 10.

 

Spellman, B. A.  (July 1996).  Sex differences in bridge.  The Bulletin of the American Contract Bridge League, pp. 81-82.

 

Spellman, B. A.  (April 1994).  Bridge and memory:  Some surprising insights.  The Bulletin of the American Contract Bridge League, pp. 54-56.

 

Spellman, B. A.  (May 8, 1989).  Fusion or illusion?  [Letter to the editor on the similarity between the sciences of physics and psychology.]  Newsweek, p. 8.