2024

• Wunsch, S., Vollmeyer, R., Burns, B. (2024). Benford's Law from a Developmental Perspective. 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Online: EScholarship.
• Chi, D., Burns, B. (2024). Benford's Law: Testing the Effects of Distributions and Anchors on Number Estimation. 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Online: EScholarship.
• Palanca, F., Burns, B. (2024). Probability, measurement mismatches, and sacrificial moral decision-making. Cognition, 243, 105692. [More Information]
• Burns, B. (2024). Proxies, heuristics, and goal alignment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47, e71. [More Information]

2023

• Dekel, S., Burns, B., Goldwater, M. (2023). Leaping across the mental canyon: higher-order long-distance analogical retrieval. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35(8), 856-875. [More Information]
• Ni, B., Burns, B., Mak, K., Lah, S., Silva, D., Goldwater, M., Kleitman, S. (2023). To kill or not to kill: A systematic literature review of high-stakes moral decision-making measures and their psychometric properties. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1063607. [More Information]

2022

• Chi, D., Burns, B. (2022). Why do People fit to Benford’s Law? – A Test of the Recognition Hypothesis. Cognitive Science Society, 44, 3648-3654.

2021

• Zhang, Y., Burns, B., Touyz, S. (2021). Exploring a core psychopathology in disordered eating: the feelings of fat scale. Journal of Eating Disorders, 9(1), 64. [More Information]

2020

• Burns, B. (2020). Do people fit to Benford's law, or do they have a Benford bias? 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2020), Seattle: Cognitive Science Society.
• Zhang, L., Aidman, E., Burns, B., Kleitman, S. (2020). Integrating self-report and performance-based assessment of adaptability in a university context. Journal of Research in Personality, 88, 103988. [More Information]

2017

• Burns, B., Zhang, Y., Wieth, M., Touyz, S. (2017). An exploratory study of creativity and eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders, 5, 1-6. [More Information]
• Burns, B. (2017). Equiprobability principle or "no change" principle? Examining reasoning in the Monty Hall Dilemma using unequal probabilities. 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017), : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Dekel, S., Burns, B., Goldwater, M. (2017). Leaping across the mental canyon: Analogical retrieval across disparate task domains. 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017), : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

2016

• Kistner, S., Vollmeyer, R., Burns, B., Kortenkamp, U. (2016). Model development in scientific discovery learning with a computerbased physics task. Computers in Human Behavior, 59, 446-455. [More Information]
• Kistner, S., Burns, B., Vollmeyer, R., Kortenkamp, U. (2016). The importance of understanding: Model space moderates goal specificity effects. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(6), 1179-1196. [More Information]

2015

• Lee, J., Burns, B. (2015). Convincing people of the Monty Hall Dilemma answer: The impact of solution type and individual differences. 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2015), : SPIE.
• Burns, B. (2015). Probabilistic reasoning in the two-envelope problem. Thinking and Reasoning, 21(3), 295-316. [More Information]
• Burns, B., Krygier, J. (2015). Psychology and Benford's Law. In Steven J. Miller (Eds.), Benford's Law: Theory and Applications, (pp. 267-275). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Willaby, H., Costa, D., Burns, B., MacCann, C., Roberts, R. (2015). Testing complex models with small sample sizes: A historical overview and empirical demonstration of what Partial Least Squares (PLS) can offer differential psychology. Personality and Individual Differences, 84, 73-78. [More Information]
• Kistner, S., Burns, B., Vollmeyer, R., Kortenkamp, U. (2015). When do nonspecific goals help learning? An issue of model quality. 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2015), : SPIE.

2014

• Zhang, Y., Touyz, S., Burns, B., Vartanian, L., Abbott, M. (2014). An empirical examination of the mislabelling of fat as an emotion in sub-clinical eating disorder groups. Journal of Eating Disorders, 2(Suppl 1), O60-O60. [More Information]
• Kistner, S., Burns, B., Vollmeyer, R., Kortenkamp, U. (2014). An explorative study of search of model space in problem-solving. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26(7), 818-829. [More Information]
• Burns, B., Luo, L. (2014). Over/under confidence: Effects of culture and number of options. 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, : IEEE Computer Society.
• Wieth, M., Burns, B. (2014). Rewarding multitasking: Negative effects of an incentive on problem solving under divided attention. Journal of Problem Solving, 7(1), 60-72. [More Information]

2013

• Burns, B. (2013). Probabilistic reasoning in the two-envelope problem. 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2013), Austin, Texas: Cognitive Science Society.

2011

• Burns, B. (2011). Adaptive uses of random criterion: The largest number problem, the two-envelope problem, and the anchoring and adjustment heuristic. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2011), Austin, Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society.
• Connors, M., Burns, B., Campitelli, G. (2011). Expertise in complex decision making: The role of search in chess 70 years after de Groot. Cognitive Science, 35(8), 1567-1579. [More Information]

2009

• Burns, B. (2009). Sensitivity to statistical regularities: People (largely) follow Benford's law. 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society CogSci 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Cognitive Science Society.

2008

• Burns, B., Cox, C., Sheridan, A. (2008). The Role of Mechanism in Expectations About the Future: Luck and Skill. CogSci 2008: 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington DC, USA: Cognitive Science Society.

2006

• Burns, B. (2006). Cognitive neuroendocrinology: Risk preference changes across the menstrual cycle. CogSci/ICCS 2006: 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society in cooperation with the 5th International Conference of the Cognitive Science, United States: Cognitive Science Society.
• Wieth, M., Burns, B. (2006). Incentives improve performance on both incremental and insight problem solving. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59(8), 1378-1394. [More Information]

2005

• Altmann, E., Burns, B. (2005). Streak biases in decision making: data and a memory model. Cognitive Systems Research, 6(1), 5-16. [More Information]

2004

• Burns, B. (2004). Heuristics as beliefs and as behaviors: The adaptiveness of the "hot hand". Cognitive Psychology, 48, 295-331. [More Information]
• Burns, B., Corpus, B. (2004). Randomness and inductions from streaks: "Gambler's fallacy" versus "Hot hand". Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 11(1), 179-184. [More Information]
• Burns, B., Gernaat, E. (2004). Recognition effects and noncompensatory decision making strategies. Cogsci 2004: 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, United States: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
• Altmann, E., Burns, B. (2004). Streak biases in decision making: Data and a memory model. Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, United States: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
• Burns, B., Wieth, M. (2004). The Collider principle in causal reasoning: Why the Monty Hall dilemma is so hard. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133(3), 434-449. [More Information]
• Burns, B. (2004). The effects of speed on skilled chess performance. Psychological Science, 15(7), 442-447. [More Information]

2003

• Burns, B., Wieth, M. (2003). Causality and Reasoning: The Monty Hall Dilemma. CogSci 2003: 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, United States: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
• Burns, B. (2003). Experimental Law? Lessons from experimental economics on applying psychological research to the law. Michigan State Law Review, Winter 2003(4), 955-966.
• Burns, B. (2003). When it is adaptive to follow streaks: Variability and stocks. CogSci 2003: 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, United States: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

2002

• Vollmeyer, R., Burns, B. (2002). Goal Specificity and Learning with a Hypermedia Program. Experimental Psychology, 49(2), 98-108.
• Burns, B., Vollmeyer, R. (2002). Goal specificity effects on hypothesis testing in problem solving. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Section A-Human Experimental Psychology, 55A(1), 241-261.

2001

• Rheinberg, F., Vollmeyer, R., Burns, B. (2001). FAM: Ein Fragebogen zur Erfassung aktueller Motivation in Lern- und Leistungssituationen [QCM: A questionnaire to assess current motivation in learning situations]. Diagnostica, 47, 57-66.
• Burns, B. (2001). The hot hand in basketball: Fallacy or adaptive thinking? CogSci 2001: 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, United States: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.