Mansfield, is an industrial railroad town in Bristol county. In its earliest days, the town was the unsettled frontier of Taunton, used for hunting, fishing and some livestock grazing. The earliest permanent settlement of Mansfield took place in the 1680s.
During the Colonial era, Mansfield’s economy was based on a mixture of agriculture and ironworking. The first grist mill was established in 1695 and the first iron forge in small industrial base was established with several tack factories, cotton mills, machine foundries and straw hat manufacturers. Local officials made a conscious effort to diversify town business.
It appeared that Mansfield’s commercial destiny was decided when the railroads arrived in Mansfield in the 1830s and the town was established as a refueling and freight transfer point. However, later in the 19th century, the town suffered from a decline in rail freight, and local officials were actively engaged in attempting to draw business to town.
The Mansfield Board of Trade was formed in 1892 and was instrumental in drawing new industries to set up in town. Among the companies that moved in were jewelry firms which had been settled in Attleboro. Immigrants from Italy, Ireland, England and Canada moved to Mansfield to fill the manufacturing and farming jobs in the town, which was site of experimental gladioli farms.
The construction of Routes 24 and 495 and the development of a joint Mansfield/Foxborough industrial park brought new commercial life to the town. Mansfields growing industry and commitment to education and recreation programs makes Mansfield a great place to live!
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New Members Appointed to VA Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced the appointment of four new members to the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans. The committee was chartered on November 2, 1994, and advises the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on the needs of the nation’s 4.7 million minority Veterans on compensation, health care, rehabilitation, outreach and other benefits and programs administered by the VA. The committee assesses the needs of Veterans who are minority group members and recommends program improvements designed to meet their needs. The committee members are appointed to two or three-year terms. Minority Veterans comprise nearly 21 percent of the total Veteran population in the United States and its territories.
The new committee members are:
Melissa Castillo: Navy Veteran of San Antonio, Texas. Served as the Assistant Regional Director for San Antonio Region, Veterans County Service Officer Association of Texas; Assistant Women Veterans Coordinator; Advisor to the US Army Survivor Outreach Services Program; and Advisor to the Alamo Community College District Veterans Affairs Committee. Currently serves as the Assistant Veterans Service Officer at the Bexar County Veterans Service Office in San Antonio, Texas, and is an accredited Veterans Service Officer.
Benno Cleveland: Army Veteran of Fairbanks, Alaska. Served two tours in Dong Tam, Vietnam where he earned a Purple Heart. He also served as Senior Vice Commander and Department Commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. In recognition of his distinguished military service, the Alaska Federation of Natives bestowed him with their “Veteran of the Year” honors in 2014 at their Annual Convention in Anchorage. Mr. Cleveland also founded the Alaska Native Veterans Association and is currently serving as President.
Ginger Miller: Navy Veteran of Accokeek, Maryland, and former homeless disabled Veteran. Ms. Miller became Founder and CEO of two nonprofit organizations that serve Veterans and their families: John 14:2, Inc. and Women Veterans Interactive. She served as Chairwoman of the Prince George’s County Veterans Commission; Commissioner, Maryland Commission for Women; member of the Maryland Veterans Resilience Advisory Council; and a member of the Maryland Caregivers Support Coordinating Council. She is currently a member of Disabled American Veterans.
Xiomara Sosa: Army Veteran of Summerville, South Carolina. Ms. Sosa is the Founder and Principal of XAS Consulting, LLC, an integrative mental healthcare and holistic wellness consulting firm. She served on the Women Veteran Social Justice board of directors; Military Partners and Families Veteran Initiative; the Semper Fidelis Health and Wellness Advisory Board; and a current member of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, Inc.
The new members join current members:
Marvin Trujillo, Jr., Committee Chairman, Marine Corps Veteran
Many-Bears Grinder, Col. (USA-Ret)
Patricia Jackson-Kelley, Lt. Col. (USA-Ret)
Librado Rivas, Command Sgt. Maj. (USA-Ret)
Teresita Smith, Sgt. First Class (USA-Ret)
Rebecca Stone, Staff Sgt. (USA-Ret)
Cornell Wilson, Jr., Maj. Gen. (USMC-Ret)
Anthony Woods, Army Veteran
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Foo Fighters' Chris Shiflett On Possibly Entering The Rock Hall Of Fame
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Educational Buildings Defects and Health Impact on Users: A Case of Lagos State Polytechnic, Nigeria
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Keywords: Defects, campus, educational buildings, facilities, Polytechnic
Education serves as the bedrock for future socio-economic development of any society. Student’s learning behaviour and effectiveness is affected by functionality of educational buildings. During the lifecycle of buildings its performance is affected by defects, hence, it is paramount to have effective maintenance policies and practices. Thus, in order to retain sustainable educational building, defects diagnosis and management is paramount. The study seeks to identity defects and its associated health issues in Lagos State Polytechnic campuses. The objectives were achieved using questionnaire survey, responses of 200 participants were coded and analysed with SPSS 17. The study reveals that plumbing installations, indoor environment and aesthetic related issues are critical problems that need attention in the institution. Based on the responses, heat, discomfort and body pain were significant health problems experienced by users of facilities. This is an indication of areas the management of the institution has to address in order to achieve its vision.
This research work is to acknowledge the support of TEDFUND toward educational research in Nigeria and to the staffs member of Lagos state polytechnic
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Surprise City Manager Mike Frazier has announced that Chris Boyd will serve as the city’s new Community Development Director.
Boyd has served as Acting Director of the Community Development (CD) Department since April, stepping in from his role as Assistant CD Director.
Boyd joined the city’s CD Department in 2008 as the Code Enforcement Manager and was promoted to the position of Assistant CD Director in 2010. In 2014, he served as Acting CD Director for seven months before the hiring of Eric Fitzer, whose position he now replaces permanently.
Boyd was selected as the permanent CD Director after a very competitive process that included internal and external candidates.
“Our Community Development Department fulfills a critical mission within the fast-growing City of Surprise, striving to provide the highest level of service related to planning, permitting, and building safety elements,” said City Manager Mike Frazier. “Chris has done an exceptional job in the interim role. He understands the importance of smart growth and exceptional customer service, and I know he will continue to excel as he takes on this permanent role.”
Boyd holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Justice Studies from Arizona State University and is currently pursuing an MBA at Ottawa University Arizona.
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WolfTrack sets new path
Ely Chamber takes over sponsorship of February sled dog races
by Tom Coombe
An Ely winter event will continue this season with new management.
The Ely Chamber of Commerce has taken over sponsorship and coordination of the WolfTrack Classic, a sled dog racing event that has become a staple on the local winter calendar and hearkens back to the days when the community hosted the All-American Sled Dog Races.
Set for its 12th year, the WTC’s future was in jeopardy as volunteer board members looked to pass the baton to new leadership.
“No one wanted to see the race end,” said Eva Sebesta, executive director of the Ely Chamber and a one-time WTC board member. “They were having some challenges finding additional board members want what ultimately ended up happening was that the board decided they would like to follow in the footsteps of the Apostle Islands race, which the Bayfield Chamber operates. So there was some precedence.”
The Chamber organization, which includes event coordinator Ellen Cashman, one of the original founders of the WTC, provides a fit for the race to move forward.
“We knew we were successful in doing other events,” said Sebesta. “And sled dog mushing has been such a part of the culture and history up here, with the Ely All-American which was a major force before the Iditarod... This is a good race, but we just couldn’t get hands on the board to help support it, so the Chamber is taking it on.”
Started just over a decade ago, the WolfTrack Classic conjures up memories of the days when Ely hosted the All-American races, which started a half-century ago and were arguably the community’s biggest overall event during the 1970s and 1980s.
While the WTC has faced weather challenges during its existence, with mild conditions twice forcing the cancellation of the event, it has persevered and become a draw in its own right.
Participation for this year’s event was up 20 percent compared to a 2018.
The event has also become more popular with Ely area residents and dog mushing enthusiasts who come from beyond the region to take in the festivities.
“We’ve gone from maybe 50 spectators at the starting line a few years ago to hundreds the last couple of years,” said Sebesta. “This race has been great. It draws people up. It’s been a two day event so we have people coming from all over the country to support the race and they’re staying in our lodging, eating in our restaurants.”
The 2020 event is set for the weekend of Feb. 22-23, with an art show, at the Grand Ely Lodge, musher check-in and mushers’ dinner at Vermilion Community College all part of the opening day festivities.
The race kicks off on Sunday, Feb. 23 at the softball complex on Ely’s eastern edge, with both 30 and 50-mile races in the works, the same as in 2019.
“We’re going to keep it very much the same,” said Sebesta. “The WolfTrack Classic board had been talking about doing some additional races like a kids’ race and a freight race. Right now we want to make sure we are doing a good job with the main race and maybe add those pieces in a couple years.”
Grand Ely Lodge serves as the “base camp” of sorts on race day, and it’s home to an awards ceremony and dinner following the event.
Volunteers are still needed to help with various aspects of the event, and those interested in helping may contact the Chamber at (218) 365-6123 or check out the race website at www.wolftrackclassic.com.
“We do have some volunteer groups that helped in the past and they are going to continue,” said Sebesta. (Others) can come into to the Chamber office or call or sign up on the website. We’re just excited to be doing the race and continuing to support sled dog mushing and racing in our area.”


Why Rebrand
ManhattanLife Stories
One of the unexpected benefits of ManhattanLife’s 170-year legacy is finding its treasure trove of stories, historical milestones and industry firsts. Not only are they interesting, they also validate the persona of our company. We invite you to learn more about ManhattanLife and the journey that led us to where we are today. And don’t forget to check back to learn more as we discover new stories to share!
• The Independent
• America's First Skyscraper
• Old Reliable
• ACA Court Win
A History of Firsts
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ManhattanLife Stories:
Operating According to Its Mission
Within an industry peer group comprised primarily of large, publicly traded companies, ManhattanLife owns a differentiated position as an independent.
Private and closely held by choice, ManhattanLife is free to make decisions that align with its stated values and core mission — helping policyholders, producers and employees with attaining and sustaining health, wealth and security throughout their lives.
A potential conflict of interest exists within an organization that is beholden to investors and analysts on one hand and policyholders and producers on the other. At best, the required focus on quarterly earnings is a distraction from servicing policies and innovating products. At worst, it could mean prioritizing preserving shareholder value over advocating on behalf of policyholders.
A History of Independence
ManhattanLife has a storied history of conducting business its own way. Founded in 1850, this independent is one of the industry’s oldest insurance companies, has survived multiple wars, plagues, the Great Depression and the Great Recession, and has done so without compromising its values or determination to “do the right thing.” Even when pressured not to.
This was demonstrated early in the Company’s history when the Civil War ended and ManhattanLife sought out the surviving policyholders of the South in order to fulfill their claims. In spite of the federal government’s prevailing opinion that they ignore these claims, ManhattanLife honored the claims because it believed it was morally the right thing to do.
ManhattanLife was “David” to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services “Goliath” in 2014 when, advocating for producers’ right to sell and policyholders’ right to buy, it sued and won protected access to fixed indemnity health insurance products. At this level, only a true independent has the autonomy to put their money where their mouth is to fight for the rights of their constituents and the ability to serve them.
Free to Create and Innovate
Being an independent can also be about “independence from” — independence from rigidity of thinking, the status quo and herd mentality. This allows ManhattanLife to focus on what matters most — improving upon its product offering and rewarding its valued relationships with producers. The Company embraces the kind of nimbleness, creativity and generosity of spirit that generally cannot thrive within the bureaucratic confines of the large publicly traded insurance companies, known within the industry as “the Bigs”.
With almost 170 years of independently growing its business, today ManhattanLife plays in the space of the market leaders. Yet, as an independent, the Company remains the true alternative offering product breadth and financial strength that can go toe-to-toe with other top carriers. ManhattanLife — all the benefits of the Bigs but better.
America's First Skyscraper
Trailblazers by Design
The history of New York City’s skyline is almost as rich as the city itself. And at the heart of this history rests the ManhattanLife building — the first skyscraper to be designed and constructed in the United States.
The development of the ManhattanLife building began in 1892, when The Company commissioned architecture firm Kimball & Thompson for its design, which would tower 347 feet above Broadway, and 400 feet above the foundation. Such heights had never been reached, so to achieve this, a new type of construction was required – a caisson-type foundation. This design – the first caisson-type foundation used in New York – is commonplace today, but at the time it was considered a revolutionary approach to minimizing the risk of damage to surrounding buildings.
At first, the Commissioner of Buildings was resistant to permitting the groundbreaking structure, but eventually consented asking only that the lead architect George Kramer Thompson give his word that it would work.
A herculean effort, the skyscraper was completed in 12 months and 27 days with no lives lost during its construction. It was reported that enough steel was used in the building to install 100 miles of railroad.
The Talk of the Town
Throughout its development, the ManhattanLife building became a topic of discussion in the newspapers and magazines of the time. Truly innovative, this project captured the interest of New York’s media and citizens, and was called an attempt to “push dem clouds away” as the Insurance Record reported.
The Company moved into its cutting-edge headquarters in 1894 and the building quickly became one of New York’s prime sight seeing attractions, much like the Empire State Building or Radio City Music Hall of today. Guides were available to lead visitors through the nation’s first skyscraper, including the structure’s tower occupied by the Government Weather Station.
A newsworthy moment during the building’s development is tied to the World’s Fair. The Insurance Advocate noted editorially at the time of the fair at the Art Palace that, “ManhattanLife made a good hit when it conceived the idea of exhibiting a model of its elegant new building, now in the course of construction, at the World’s Fair. While taking in the sights of the wonderful exposition, we were convinced of this fact by observing a large number of people admiring that colossal piece of architecture. For The ManhattanLife it is an advertisement par excellence.”
The Old Reliable
From Young Resilient to Old Reliable
In its eleventh year in business, the ManhattanLife insurance company was thriving despite strenuous circumstances. Its team of field agents had grown to 464, with representation expanding from New York to across the country as far as California and Texas. With assets over $1 million, The Company had persevered through the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853 and the Panic of 1857 which had resulted in the suspension of New York City banks. However, it would soon face its greatest challenge, and an epic and defining milestone, with the attack on Fort Sumter on March 12, 1861 and the resulting four years of Civil War.
Operating During War Time
The battle between the North and South presented operational challenges to The Company, which a special meeting of the Board was called to address. ManhattanLife’s field force in the North needed to increase to compensate for the loss of business in the South due to the war. There was also the issue of granting permits to policyholders volunteering for Union military or naval service. The Board voted to grant permits at adjusted rates provided they made applications within 10 days of entering service. Policyholders not wishing to pay the extra premium for war risk were allowed to let the policies lapse with the provision they would be reinstated at the end of the war with their demonstration of good health.
A Moral Versus Legal Interpretation
Operating during wartime presented philosophical challenges as well. The Company’s Claims Committee had to weigh the question of whether to honor claims based on a moral evaluation rather than a purely legalistic interpretation. Some Board members expressed the opinion that insured policyholders had not taken ordinary precaution in the payment of war premiums without a permit from The Company and therefore were not eligible to make a claim. Upon review, the Directors eventually discerned that the servicemen had acted in good faith and given their lives to their country, leaving their families in financial hardship. The decision was made to honor these claims, a motion proving ManhattanLife’s leadership were men of compassion.
Introducing Incontestability
In 1863, an incontestability clause was introduced to ManhattanLife’s Applications Committee for consideration. The clause would essentially eliminate potential loopholes and ensure The Company’s accountability to policyholders. The motion was seconded but lost on a vote. A champion for the clause, the Chairman of ManhattanLife’s Claims Committee reintroduced it citing both the advantages and objections to the policy feature as well as its success in the practice of European insurance companies. To date, no American insurance company had ever offered policyholders the protection of incontestability. The key language in the clause read “This policy is incontestable, after five years from its date, for or on account of errors, omission, or misstatements in the application, except as to age.” The motion passed and a copy of the resolution was sent to all policyholders and the clause was included in all future policies.
Post War Restoration and Restitution
In the spring of 1865 following the end of the Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, ManhattanLife set about two major initiatives — reestablishing its Southern agencies and searching out the Southern policyholders and beneficiaries with whom The Company had lost contact during the time of war. Communications and monetary transactions across battle lines were mostly suspended therefore policyholders were unable to pay their premiums. Legally, the policies were considered lapsed. ManhattanLife could either rigidly abide by the terms of its contracts, or, take a liberal rather than legal view and pay the claims minus the amount of unpaid premiums. It chose the latter, and soon word spread throughout the South earning the Company the moniker of “The Old Reliable”. And as ManhattanLife reestablished its presence in Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas, agents found this compassionate approach to claim settlements and policy reinstatement and the earned reputation of reliability were some of The Company’s most valuable assets.
ManhattanLife’s founding Directors unanimously agreed The Company should always operate according to the good faith interpretation of its word — not just the minimum of what was contractually required. Whether making decisions based on what is believed to be morally right or implementing a self-governing clause to protect policyholders — fairness and reliability have consistently been cornerstones of the ManhattanLife brand throughout its 170-year history and today. It is this demonstrated core value that has inspired The Company’s new positioning line — Standing by You. Since 1850.
ACA Court Win
Manhattanlife Saves Fixed Indemnity for Industry and Insured
ManhattanLife played “David” to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) “Goliath” in 2014 when the Company sued HHS, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell and other members of the Obama administration to protect consumers’ access to fixed indemnity health insurance products.
Prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) taking effect, consumers across the country, who were either unable or unwilling to pay for or unable to qualify to purchase major medical coverage, were using indemnity insurance as an effective alternative to help cover a variety of planned and unplanned healthcare expenses.
Once ACA was in effect, government regulators began taking active steps to prevent consumers from purchasing fixed indemnity health insurance unless they could prove they already had “minimum essential coverage” and were only using the indemnity insurance to fill gaps left by the major medical policy.
Taking a Stand on Behalf of Producers and Policyholders
Upon closer investigation, ManhattanLife concluded that the regulators’ actions were challenging the use of “excepted benefits,” as defined by Section 201 of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), in lieu of major medical coverage. “Fixed indemnity” is clearly among the forms of insurance listed as excepted benefits in the PHSA. The Company believed this was a misinterpretation and that HHS was depriving Americans from a valuable tool to help them maintain their health, wealth and security.
So, under the guidance of CEO David Harris, ManhattanLife stepped forward as the only insurance provider in the country willing to challenge the government’s actions in court.
Judge Royce C. Lamberth, the senior judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia, agreed with ManhattanLife in September 2015, granting an injunction that prohibited HHS from requiring insurance buyers to have minimum essential coverage in place prior to purchasing fixed indemnity coverage.
Keeping Fixed Indemnity in Play
Not at all pleased with the outcome and the precedent it would set, HHS immediately appealed the ruling, with the hope a federal appeals court would reverse the ruling.
A three-judge panel at the District of Columbia U.S. Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in favor of ManhattanLife, and ultimately for producers and policyholders, affirming the permanent injunction originally granted by the district court judge.
“At issue is whether HHS colored outside the lines of its authority. The district court held that it did, and we agree.” Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown wrote in an opinion for the panel that heard the case. “At no point does the ACA give even the slightest indication the definition of “excepted benefit” was suddenly debatable; rather, the Act doubled down on the PHSA’s existing requirements.”
The panel determined, as a result of this, that HHS has no authority under ACA to regulate how consumers use fixed indemnity or other “excepted benefits” products.
“HHS lacked the authority to demand more of fixed indemnity providers than Congress required.” wrote Brown.
“Sometimes a situation calls for you to take a stand for what’s fair regardless of what’s in favor,” says ManhattanLife CEO David Harris. “ManhattanLife was in a position to step forward and do what we felt was right based on our commitment to indemnity products being a critical offering for many of our policyholders. I am very pleased that all four judges validated our interpretation of this matter.”
“ManhattanLife’s storied history is filled with memorable milestones throughout its 170 years — and our future looks just as bright.”
Dan George, President
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Scientist Seeking Love Falls for Cocaine Scam
By McCarton Ackerman 07/24/12
A distinguished physicist duped into chasing "Miss Bikini World" languishes in an Argentine jail.
Spoiler alert: this does not end well.
This is not your typical "rom-com." A US-based British scientist who thought he was heading to Bolivia to meet the woman of his dreams—a renowned "Czech model" he met online—now faces a possible 16-year jail sentence after he was allegedly suckered into smuggling two kilograms of cocaine on a flight from Buenos Aires to Peru. Paul Frampton, a professor at North Carolina University, had been chatting online from last November with a woman he believed to be Czech-born glamour model and former Miss Bikini World Denise Milani. But it turns out "she" was a male criminal posing as a model. The pair arranged to meet in Bolivia, where Frampton thought he would meet Milani, only to be told by a hotel employee to look after a suitcase belonging to her. After waiting fruitlessly in Bolivia for 10 days, he was told to fly to Buenos Aires and wait three days for a ticket to Brussels, where they would finally meet. It was at this point that Frampton's colleagues convinced him to fly home—but he was busted by airport officials when they found the drugs hidden in the lining of the suitcase. “The day I arrived in Bolivia I found out she wasn’t coming and I should have returned to the US straight away," says Frampton. "But I always see my projects through, as I do with my physics papers. She was my project. Perhaps I should have realized there was something strange going on.” How on earth did the man who makes a living off his mind fall for such a scam? Frampton's ex-wife Anne Marie says he has "an emotional age of three. The only thing he understands is science." Frampton is still locked up in a Buenos Aires jail, but his fellow scientists have written to Cristina Kirchner, the Argentine president, asking her to intervene.
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Ran Abramitzky is Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford University. His research is in economic history and applied microeconomics, with focus on immigration and income inequality. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
He is the Co-editor of Explorations in Economic History and on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic History. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, as well as National Science Foundation grants for research on the causes and consequences of income inequality and on international migration. He holds a PhD in economics from Northwestern University.
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Articles in Professional Magazines
Renouf, J. S., Mann , M. E., Cook, J., Wright, C., Steffen, W., Nunn, P., Dube, P., Jouzel, J., Lewandowsky, S., Poelina, A., & Richardson, K. (2019, September). Why universities need to declare an ecological and climate emergency. Times Higher Education.
Lewandowsky, S. (2019, August). Disinformation and human cognition. Security and Human Rights Monitor.
Lewandowsky, S., & Winkler, B. (2018, November). Desinformation zum Klimawandel‒und was man dagegen tun kann. [Climate disinformation‒and what can be done against it]. Promet, 101,8-14. (In German).
Gleick, P. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Kelley, C. (2018). Critique of conflict and climate analysis is oversimplified. Nature, 555, 7698 (letter to editor).
Lewandowsky, S., van der Linden, S., & Cook, J. (2018, April 30). Can we inoculate against fake news? CREST Security Review.
Lewandowsky, S., Risbey, J. S., & Oreskes, N. (2017). Are cops on the science beat? Issues in Science and Technology. 34(1).
van der Linden, S., Maibach, E., Cook, J., Leiserowitz, A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017, December). Inoculating against misinformation. Science, 358, 1141-1142. DOI: 10.1126/science.aar4533
Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Climate models and climate data: Confusion and conflation vs. scientific reality. Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society 2015-2016, 29-50.
Lewandowsky, S., Mann, M. E., Brown, N. J. L., & Friedman, H. (2017). Public Debate, Scientific Skepticism, and Science Denial. Skeptical Inquirer, 40(1).
Lewandowsky, S. (2015, July). Review of Don’t Even Think About It:Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change. Reports of the National Centre for Science Education, 35(4).
van der Linden, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015, 28 April). How to Combat Distrust of Science. Scientific American. (Reprinted in: Return to Reason: The Science of Thought, 2018, Scientific American book).
Lewandowsky, S., & Whitmarsh, L. (2014, March). Mind over matter. Geographical. (Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, U.K.).
Lewandowsky, S., Mann, M. E., Bauld, L., Hastings, G., & Loftus, E. F. (2013, November 1). The subterranean war on science. APS Observer, online only.
Authored Books:
Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2018). Computational modelling of cognition and behaviour. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Lewandowsky, S., & Farrell, S. (2011). Computational Modeling in Cognition: Principles and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Refereed Journal Articles:
Gordon, A., Ecker, U. K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Polarity and attitude effects in the continued-influence paradigm. Journal of Memory and Language, 108, 104028. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2019.104028.
Gordon, A., Quadflieg, S., Brooks, J.C.W., Ecker, U.K.H., Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Keeping track of ‘alternative facts’: The neural correlates of processing misinformation corrections. NeuroImage. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.03.014.
Herrando-Pérez, S., Bradshaw, C. J., Lewandowsky, S., & Vieites, D. R. (2019). Statistical Language Backs Conservatism in Climate-Change Assessments. BioScience, 69, 209-219. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz004.
Karlsson, L. C., Lewandowsky, S., Antfolk, J., Salo, P., Lindfelt, M., Oksanen, T., Kivimäki, M., & Soveri, A. (2019). The association between vaccination confidence, vaccination behavior, and willingness to recommend vaccines among Finnish healthcare workers. PLOS ONE, 14, e0224330.
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Fay, N., & Gignac, G. E. (2019). Science by social media: Attitudes towards climate change are mediated by perceived social consensus. Memory & cognition, 47, 1445-1456. DOI: 10.3758/s13421-019-00948-y.
Lewandowsky, S., Pilditch, T. D., Madsen, J. K., Oreskes, N., & Risbey, J. S. (2019). Influence and seepage: An evidence-resistant minority can affect public opinion and scientific belief formation. Cognition. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.011.
Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Addressing the Theory Crisis in Psychology. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, DOI: 10.3758/s13423-019-01645-2.
Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2019). Simple measurement models for complex working-memory tasks. Psychological Review. DOI: 10.1037/rev0000159.
Sleeth-Keppler, D., Lewandowsky, S., Ballard, T., Myers, T. A., Roser-Renouf, C, & Maibach, E. (2019). Does ‘When’ really feel more certain than ‘If’? Two failures to replicate Ballard and Lewandowsky (2015). Royal Society Open Science, 6, 180475. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180475.
Swire-Thompson, B., Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Berinski, A. (2019). They might be a liar but they’re my liar: source evaluation and the prevalence of misinformation. Political Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/pops.12586.
Wiesner, K., Birdi, A., Eliassi-Rad, T., Farrell, H., Garcia, D., Lewandowsky, S., Palacios, P., Ross, R., Sornette, D., & Thébault, K. (2019). Stability of democracies – A complex systems perspective. European Journal of Physics, 40, 014002. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6404/aaeb4d.
Aird, M. J., Ecker, U. K. H., Swire, B., Berinsky, A. J., & Lewandowsky, S. (2018). Does truth matter to voters? The effects of correcting political misinformation in an Australian sample. Royal Society Open Science, 5, 180593. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180593.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Jayawardana, K., & Mladenovic, A. (2018). Refutations of Equivocal Claims: No Evidence for an Ironic Effect of Counterargument Number. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.07.005
Lewandowsky, S., & Whitmarsh, L. (2018) Climate communication for biologists: When a picture can tell a thousand words. PLOS Biology, 16, e2006004.
Lewandowsky, S., Cowtan, K., Risbey, J. S., Mann, M. E., Steinman, B. A., Oreskes, N., & Rahmstorf, S. (2018). The ‘pause’ in global warming in historical context: (II). Comparing models to observations. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 123007. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf372.
Oberauer, K., Lewandowsky, S., Awh, E., Brown, G. D. A., Conway, A., Cowan, N., Donkin, C., Farrell, S., Hitch, G. J., Hurlstone, M., Ma, W. J., Morey, C. C., Nee, D. E., Schweppe, J., Vergauwe, E., & Ward, G. (2018). Benchmarks provide common ground for model development: Reply to Logie (2018) and Vandierendonck (2018). Psychological Bulletin, 144, 972-977. DOI: 10.1037/bul0000165
Oberauer, K., Lewandowsky, S., Awh, E., Brown, G. D. A., Conway, A., Cowan, N., Donkin, C., Farrell, S., Hitch, G. J., Hurlstone, M., Ma, W. J., Morey, C. C., Nee, D. E., Schweppe, J., Vergauwe, E., & Ward, G. (2018). Benchmarks for Models of Short Term and Working Memory. Psychological Bulletin, 144, 885-958. DOI: 10.1037/bul0000153
Risbey, J. S., Lewandowsky, S., Cowtan, K., Oreskes, N., Rahmstorf, S., Jokimäki, A., & Foster, G. (2018). A fluctuation in surface temperature in historical context: reassessment and retrospective on the evidence. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 123008. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf342.
Cook, J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker. U. K. H. (2017). Neutralizing Misinformation Through Inoculation: Exposing Misleading Argumentation Techniques Reduces Their Influence. PLOS ONE, 12, e0175799. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175799
Ecker, U. K. H., Hogan, J. L., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Reminders and Repetition of Misinformation: Helping or Hindering Its Retraction? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 185-192. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.01.014
Gordon, A., Brooks, J. C., Quadflieg, S., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017) Exploring the Neural Substrates of Misinformation Processing. Neuropsychologia, 106, 216-224. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.10.003
Harvey, J. A., van den Berg, D., Ellers, J., Kampen, R., Crowther, T. W., Roessingh, P., Verheggen, B., Nuijten, R. J. M., Post, E., Lewandowsky, S., Stirling, I., Balgopal, M., Amstrup, S. C., & Mann, M. E. (2017). Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy. BioScience. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/bix133.
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Letting the gorilla emerge from the mist: Getting past post-truth. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 418-424. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.11.002
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., & Cook, J. (2017). Beyond Misinformation: Understanding and coping with the post-truth era. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 353-369. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.07.008.
Lewandowsky, S., Freeman, M. C., & Mann, M. E. (2017). Harnessing the uncertainty monster: Putting quantitative constraints on the intergenerational social discount rate. Global and Planetary Change, 156, 155-166. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.03.007.
Lewandowsky, S., Lloyd, E. A., & Brophy, S. (2017). When THUNCing Trumps thinking: What distant alternative worlds can tell us about the real world. Argumenta, DOI: 10.23811/52.arg2017.lew.llo.bro.
Risbey, J. S., Grose, M. R., Monselesan, D. P., O’Kane, T. J., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Transient response of the global mean warming rate and its spatial variation. Weather and Climate Extremes, 18, 55-64. DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2017.11.002.
Risbey, J. S. & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Climate science: The ‘pause’ unpacked. Nature, 545, 37-39. DOI: 10.1038/545037a
Swire, B., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). The Role of Familiarity in Correcting Inaccurate Information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000422.
Swire, B., Berinsky, A. J., Lewandowsky, S., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2017). Processing political misinformation: comprehending the Trump phenomenon. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 160802. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160802.
van der Linden, S., Maibach, E., Cook, J., Leiserowitz, A., Ranney, M., Lewandowsky, S., Arvai, J., & Weber, E. U. (2017). Culture versus cognition is a false dilemma. Nature Climate Change, 7, 457-457. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3323
Cook, J., & Lewandowsky, S. (2016). Rational Irrationality: Modeling Climate Change Belief Polarization Using Bayesian Networks. TopiCS in Cognitive Science, 8, 160-179. Data available on OSF here. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12186
Cook, J., Oreskes, N., Doran, P. T., Anderegg, W. R. L., Verheggen, B., Maibach, E. W., Carlton, J. S., Lewandowsky, S., Skuce, A. G., Green, S. A., Nuccitelli, D., Jacobs, P., Richardson, M., Winkler, B., Painting, R., Rice, K. (2016). Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048002.
Farrell, S., Oberauer, K., Greaves, M., Pasiecznik, K., Lewandowsky, S., Jarrold, C. (2016). A test of interference versus decay in working memory: Varying distraction within lists in a complex span task. Journal of Memory and Language, 90, 66-87. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2016.03.010
Lewandowsky, S. (2016). Future Global Change and Cognition. TopiCS in Cognitive Science, 8, 7-18. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12188.
Lewandowsky, S., & Bishop, D. (2016). Research integrity: Don’t let transparency damage science. Nature, 529, 459-461. DOI: 10.1038/529459a
Lewandowsky, S., Ballard, T., Oberauer, K., & Benestad, R. (2016). A blind expert test of contrarian claims about climate data. Global Environmental Change, 39, 91-97. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.04.013
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., & Lloyd, E. (2016). The ‘Alice in Wonderland’ mechanics of the rejection of (climate) science: simulating coherence by conspiracism. Synthese, 195, 175-196. DOI 10.1007/s11229-016-1198-6.
Lewandowsky, S., Mann, M. E., Brown, N. J. L., & Friedman, H. (2016). Science and the public: Debate, denial, and skepticism. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 4, 537-553. DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v4i2.604
Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2016). Motivated rejection of science. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25, 217-222. DOI: 10.1177/0963721416654436
Oberauer, K., Farrell, S., Jarrold, C., & Lewandowsky, S. (2016). What Limits Working Memory Capacity? Psychological Bulletin. DOI: 10.1037/bul0000046.
Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2016). Control of information in working memory: Encoding and removal of distractors in the complex-span paradigm cognition. Cognition, 156, 106-128. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.08.007
Ballard, T., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). When, not if: the inescapability of an uncertain climate future. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (A), 373, 20140464. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0464
Benestad, R., Nuccitelli, D., Lewandowsky, S., Hayhoe, K., Hygen, H., van Dorland, R. & Cook, J. (2015). Learning from mistakes in climate research. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 126, 699-703. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-015-1597-5.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Cheung, C. S. C., & Maybery, M. T. (2015). He did it! She did it! No, she did not! Multiple causal explanations and the continued influence of misinformation. Journal of Memory and Language, 85, 101-115. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2015.09.002
Jacobs, P., Cutting, H., Lewandowsky, S., O’Brien, M., Rice, K., & Verheggen, B. (2015). Clarity of meaning in IPCC press conference. Nature Climate Change, 5, 961-962.
Lewandowsky, S., Ballard, T., & Pancost, R. D. (2015). Uncertainty as knowledge. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (A), 373, 20140462. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0462
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Oberauer, K., Brophy, S., Lloyd, E. A., & Marriott, M. (2015). Recurrent Fury: Conspiratorial Discourse in the Blogosphere Triggered by Research on the Role of Conspiracist Ideation in Climate Denial. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3, 142-178. DOI: 10.5964/jspp.v3i1.443
Lewandowsky, S., Gignac, G. E., & Oberauer, K. (2015). The Robust Relationship Between Conspiracism and Denial of (Climate) Science. Psychological Science, 26, 667-670. DOI: 10.1177/0956797614568432
Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2015). Rehearsal in serial recall: An unworkable solution to the non-existent problem of decay. Psychological Review, 122, 674-699. DOI: 10.1037/a0039684
Lewandowsky, S., Oreskes, N., Risbey, J. S., Newell, B. R., & Smithson, M. (2015). Seepage: Climate change denial and its effect on the scientific community. Global Environmental Change, 33. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.02.013.
Lewandowsky, S., Risbey, J. S., & Oreskes, N. (2015). The “Pause” in Global Warming: Turning a Routine Fluctuation into a Problem for Science. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00106.1.
Lewandowsky, S., Risbey, J. S., & Oreskes, N. (2015). On the definition and identifiability of the alleged “hiatus” in global warming. Scientific Reports, 5, 16784. DOI: 10.1038/srep16784
Morey, R. D., Chambers, C. D., Etchells, P. J., Harris, C. R., Hoekstra, R., Lakens, D., Lewandowsky, S., Morey, C. C., Newman, D. P., Schönbrodt, F., Vanpaemel, W., Wagenmakers, E.-J., & Zwaan, R. A. (2015). The peer reviewers’ openness initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review. Royal Society Open Science, 2, 15047. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150547
Oberauer, K., Jones, T., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). The Hebb repetition effect in simple and complex memory span. Memory & Cognition, 43, 852-865. DOI: 10.3758/s13421-015-0512-8.
Risbey, J. S., Lewandowsky, S., Hunter, J. R., & Monselesan, D. P. (2015). Betting strategies on fluctuations in the transient response of greenhouse warming. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (A), 373, 20140463. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0463
Cook, J., Nuccitelli, D., Skuce, A., Jacobs, P., Painting, R., Honeycutt, R., Green, S. A., Lewandowsky, S., Richardson, M., & Way, R. G. (2014). Reply to ‘Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature: a Re-analysis.’ Energy Policy, 73, 706-708. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.06.002
Ecker, U. K. H, Brown, G. D. A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Memory without consolidation: temporal distinctiveness explains retroactive interference. Cognitive Science. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12214.
Ecker, U. K. H, Lewandowsky, S., Chang, E. P., & Pillai, R. (2014). The effects of subtle misinformation in news headlines. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 20, 323-335. DOI: 10.1037/xap0000028
Hurlstone, M. J., Lewandowsky, S., Newell, B. R., & Sewell, B. (2014). The effect of framing and normative messages in building support for climate policies. PLOS ONE, 9, e114335. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114335
Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Conspiratory Fascination vs. public interest: The case of ‘Climategate.’ Environmental Research Letters, 9, 111004. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/11/111004
Risbey, J. S., Lewandowsky, S., Langlais, C., Monselesan, D. P., O’Kane, T. J., & Oreskes, N. (2014). Well-estimated global surface warming in climate projections selected for ENSO phase. Nature Climate Change, 4, 835-840. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2310
Ecker, U. K. H., Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Working memory updating involves item-specific removal. Journal of Memory and Language, 74, 1-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2014.03.006
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Fenton, O., & Martin, K. (2014). Do people keep believing because they want to? Pre-existing attitudes and the continued influence of misinformation. Memory & Cognition, 42, 292-304. DOI: 10.3758/s13421-013-0358-x
Lewandowsky, S., Risbey, J. S., Smithson, M., Newell, B. R., & Hunter, J. (2014). Scientific uncertainty and climate change: Part I. Uncertainty and unabated emissions. Climatic Change, 124, 21-37. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1082-7
Lewandowsky, S., Risbey, J. S., Smithson, M., & Newell, B. R. (2014). Scientific uncertainty and climate change: Part II. Uncertainty and mitigation. Climatic Change, 124, 39-52. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1083-6
Little, D. R., Lewandowsky, S., & Craig, S. (2014). Working memory capacity and fluid abilities: The more difficult the item, the more more is better. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 239. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00239
Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Further evidence against decay in working memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 73, 15-30. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2014.02.003
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2013). Removal of information from working memory: A specific updating process. Journal of Memory and Language. DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2013.09.003
Craig, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2013). Working memory supports inference learning just like classification learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 1493-1503. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2013.818703
Farrell, S., Hurlstone, M. J., & Lewandowsky, S. (2013). Sequential dependencies in recall of sequences: Filling in the blanks. Memory & Cognition, 41, 938-952. DOI: 10.3758/s13421-013-0310-0
Griffiths, T. L., Lewandowsky, S., & Kalish, M. L. (2013). The effects of cultural transmission are modulated by the amount of information transmitted. Cognitive Science, 37, 953-967. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12045
Lewandowsky, S., Gignac, G. E., & Oberauer, K. (2013). The role of conspiracist ideation and worldviews in predicting rejection of science. PLOS ONE, 8, e75637. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075637
Lewandowsky, S., Stritzke, W. G. K., Freund, A. M., Oberauer, K., & Krueger, J. (2013). Misinformation, disinformation, and violent conflict: From Iraq and the “War on Terror” to future threats to peace. American Psychologist, 68, 487-501. DOI: 10.1037/a0034515 (Opening article to a special issue on psychology of peace and conflict prevention organized by the authors of this article.)
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Oberauer, K., & Marriott, M. (2013). Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation. Frontiers of Psychology, 4 (73). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00073. [This article was retracted by the publisher owing to legal fears on 21 March 2014 and has been republished as Lewandowsky et al., 2015.]
Lewandowsky, S., Gignac, G. E., & Vaughan, S. (2013). The pivotal role of perceived scientific consensus in acceptance of science. Nature Climate Change, 3, 399-404. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1720
Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Gignac, G. E. (2013). NASA faked the moon landing—therefore (climate) science is a hoax: An anatomy of the motivated rejection of science. Psychological Science, 24, 622-633. DOI: 10.1177/0956797612457686
Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2013). Evidence against decay in verbal working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 380-411. DOI: 10.1037/a0029588
Craig, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2012). Whichever way you choose to categorize, working memory helps you learn. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 439-464. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2011.608854.
Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2012). Computational constraints in cognitive theories of forgetting. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 1-5. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00400.
Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2012). Response suppression contributes to recency in serial recall. Memory & Cognition. DOI 10.3758/s13421-012-0212-6.
Lewandowsky, S., & Coltheart, M. (2012). Cognition ‘versus’ neuroscience: Competing approaches or complementary levels of explanation? Australian Journal of Psychology, 64, 1-3. (special issue on Neuroscience “versus” Cognitive modeling: Competing approaches or compatible levels of explanation?; S. Lewandowsky & M. Coltheart, Guest Editors.)
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Farrell, S., and Brown, G. D. A. (2012). Models of cognition and constraints from neuroscience: A case study involving consolidation. Australian Journal of Psychology, 64, 37-45. (special issue on Neuroscience “versus” Cognitive modeling: Competing approaches or compatible levels of explanation?; S. Lewandowsky & M. Coltheart, Guest Editors.)
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U. K. H., Seifert, C., Schwarz, N., & Cook, J. (2012). Misinformation and its correction: Continued influence and successful debiasing. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13, 106-131. DOI: 10.1177/1529100612451018
Lewandowsky, S., Palmeri, T. J., & Waldmann, M. R. (2012). Introduction to the Special Section on Theory and Data in Categorization: Integrating Computational, Behavioral, and Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 803-806. DOI: 10.1037/a0028943
Lewandowsky, S., Yang, L.-X., Newell, B. R., & Kalish, M. L. (2012). Working memory does not dissociate between different perceptual categorization tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 881-904. DOI: 10.1037/a0027298.
Oberauer, K., Lewandowsky, S., Farrell, S., Jarrold, C., & Greaves, M. (2012). Modeling working memory: An interference model of complex span. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 779-819. DOI 10.3758/s13423-012-0272-4.
Sewell, D. K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2012). Attention and working memory capacity: Insights from blocking, highlighting, and knowledge restructuring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 444-469. DOI: 10.1037/a0026560.
Craig, S., Lewandowsky, S., & Little, D. R. (2011). Error Discounting in Probabilistic Category Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 673-687. DOI: 10.1037/a0022473.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Apai, J. (2011). Terrorists brought down the plane!—No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 283-310. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2010.497927
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Swire, B., & Chang, D. (2011). Correcting false information in memory: Manipulating the strength of misinformation encoding and its retraction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 570-578. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-011-0065-1
Lewandowsky, S. (2011). Popular consensus: Climate change set to continue. Psychological Science, 22, 460-463. DOI: 10.1177/0956797611402515
Lewandowsky, S. (2011). Working memory capacity and categorization: Individual differences and modeling. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 720-738. DOI: 10.1037/a0022639.
Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2011). Modelling working memory: A computational implementation of the Time-Based Resource-Sharing theory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18, 10-45. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-010-0020-6
Sewell, D. K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2011). Restructuring partitioned knowledge: The role of recoordination in category learning. Cognitive Psychology, 62, 81-122. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.09.003
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Chee, A. E. H. (2010). The components of working memory updating: An experimental decomposition and individual differences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 170-189.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Tang, D. (2010). Explicit warnings reduce but do not eliminate the continued influence of misinformation. Memory & Cognition, 38, 1087-1100.
Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2010). Computational models as aids to better reasoning in psychology. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 329-335.
Lewandowsky, S., Geiger, S. M., Morrell, D. B., & Oberauer, K. (2010). Turning simple span into complex span: Time for decay or interference from distractors? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 958-978.
Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., Yang, L.-X., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2010). A working memory test battery for MatLab. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 571-585.
Morin, C., Brown, G. D. A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2010). Temporal isolation effects in recognition and serial recall. Memory & Cognition, 38, 849-859.
Lewandowsky, S., Brown, G. D. A., & Thomas, J. L. (2009). Traveling economically through memory space: Characterizing output order in memory for serial order. Memory & Cognition, 37, 181-193.
Lewandowsky, S., Griffiths, T. L. & Kalish, M. L. (2009). The Wisdom of Individuals: Exploring People’s Knowledge about Everyday Events using Iterated Learning. Cognitive Science, 33, 969-998.
Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2009). No Evidence for Temporal Decay in Working Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 1545-1551.
Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Brown, G. D. A. (2009). Response to Altmann: Adaptive forgetting by decay or removal of STM contents? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 280-281.
Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Brown, G. D. A. (2009). Response to Barrouillet and Camos: Interference or decay in working memory? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 146-147.
Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Brown, G. D. A. (2009). No temporal decay in verbal short-term memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 120-126.
Little, D. R., & Lewandowsky, S. (2009). Beyond non-utilization: Irrelevant cues can gate learning in probabilistic categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 530-550.
Little, D. R. & Lewandowsky, S. (2009). Better Learning With More Error: Probabilistic Feedback Increases Sensitivity to Correlated Cues in Categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 1041-1061.
Colreavy, E., & Lewandowsky, S. (2008). Strategy development and learning differences in supervised and unsupervised categorization. Memory & Cognit ion, 36 , 762-775 .
Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2008). Empirical and theoretical limits on lag recency in free recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 1236-1250.
Geiger, S. M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2008). Temporal isolation does not facilitate forward serial recall—or does it? Memory & Cognition, 36, 957-967.
Griffiths, T. L., Kalish, M. L., & Lewandowsky, S. (2008). Theoretical and empirical evidence for the impact of inductive biases on cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series B), 363, 3503-3514.
Lewandowsky, S., & Farrell, S. (2008). Short-term memory: New data and a model. The psychology of Learning and Motivation, 49, 1-48.
Lewandowsky, S., & Farrell, S. (2008). Phonological similarity in serial recall: Constraints on theories of memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 429–448.
Lewandowsky, S., Geiger, S. M., & Oberauer, K. (2008). Interference-based forgetting in verbal short-term memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 59, 200-222.
Lewandowsky, S. Nimmo, L. M., & Brown, G. D. A. (2008). When temporal isolation benefits memory for serial order. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 415–428.
Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2008). The Word Length Effect Provides No Evidence for Decay in Short-Term Memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 875-888.
Oberauer, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2008). Forgetting in immediate serial recall: Decay, temporal distinctiveness, or interference? Psychological Review, 115, 544-576.
Smith, K., Kalish, M. L., Griffiths, T. L., & Lewandowsky, S. (2008). Cultural transmission and the evolution of human behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series B), 363, 3469-3476.
Kalish, M. L., Griffiths, T., & Lewandowsky, S. (2007). Iterated learning: Intergenerational knowledge transmission reveals inductive biases. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 288-294.
Brown, G. D. A., Morin, C., & Lewandowsky, S. (2006). Evidence for time-based models of free recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Rev iew, 13, 717-723.
Lewandowsky, S., & Heit, E. (2006). Some targets for memory models. Journal of Memory and Language, 55, 441-446.
Lewandowsky, S., Brown, G. D. A., Wright, T., & Nimmo, L. M. (2006). Timeless memory: Evidence against temporal distinctiveness models of short-term memory for serial order. Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 20-38.
Lewandowsky, S., Roberts, L., & Yang, L.-X. (2006). Knowledge partitioning in categorization: Boundary conditions. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1676-1688.
Little, D. R., Lewandowsky, S., & Heit, E. (2006). Ad hoc category restructuring. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1398-1413.
Nimmo, L. M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2006). Distinctiveness revisited: Unpredictable temporal isolation does not benefit short-term serial recall of heard or seen events. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1368-1375.
Duncan, M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2005). The time course of response suppression: No evidence for a gradual release from inhibition. Memory, 13, 236-246.
Kalish, M. L., Lewandowsky, S., & Davies, M. (2005). Error-driven knowledge restructuring in categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 846-861.
Lewandowsky, S., & Brown, G. D. A. (2005). Serial recall and presentation schedule: A micro-analysis of local distinctiveness. Memory,13, 283-292.
Lewandowsky, S., Stritzke, W. G. K., Oberauer, K., & Morales, M. (2005). Memory for fact, fiction, and misinformation: The Iraq War 2003. Psychological Science, 16, 190-195.
Nimmo, L. M., & Lewandowsky, S. (2005). From brief gaps to very long pauses: Temporal isolation does not benefit serial recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 999-1004.
Clare, J., & Lewandowsky, S. (2004). Verbalizing facial memory: Criterion effects in verbal overshadowing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 739-755.
Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2004). Modelling transposition latencies: Constraints for theories of serial order memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 115-135.
Kalish, M. L., Lewandowsky, S., & Kruschke, J. K. (2004). Population of linear experts: knowledge partitioning and function learning. Psychological Review, 111, 1072-1099.
Lewandowsky, S., Duncan, M., & Brown, G. D. A. (2004). Time does not cause forgetting in short-term serial recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 771-790.
Yang, L.-X., & Lewandowsky, S. (2004). Knowledge partitioning in categorization: constraints on exemplar models. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 1045-1064.
Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2003). Dissimilar items benefit from phonological similarity in serial recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 838-849.
Yang, L.-X., & Lewandowsky, S. (2003). Context-gated knowledge partitioning in categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 663-679.
Dunn, J. D., Lewandowsky, S., & Kirsner, K. (2002). Dynamics of Communication in Emergency Management. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 719-737.
Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2002). An endogenous distributed model of ordering in serial recall. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review , 9, 59-79.
Lewandowsky, S., Kalish, M., & Ngang, S. K. (2002). Simplified learning in complex situations: Knowledge partitioning in function learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131, 163-193.
Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2000). A connectionist model of complacency and adaptive recovery under automation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 395-410.
Lewandowsky, S., & Farrell, S. (2000). A redintegration account of the effects of speech rate, lexicality, and word frequency in immediate serial recall. Psychological Research, 63, 163-173.
Lewandowsky, S., Kalish, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2000). Competing Strategies in Categorization: Expediency and Resistance to Knowledge Restructuring. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1666-1684.
Lewandowsky, S., & Kirsner, K. (2000). Knowledge partitioning: Context-dependent use of expertise. Memory & Cognition, 28, 295-305.
Lewandowsky, S., Mundy, M., & Tan, G. P. A. (2000). The dynamics of trust: Comparing humans to automation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 6, 104-123.
Kalish, M., Lewandowsky, S., & Dennis, S. (1999). Remote delivery of cognitive science laboratories: A solution for small disciplines in large countries. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 31, 270-274.
Lewandowsky, S., (1999). Redintegration and response suppression in serial recall: A dynamic network model. International Journal of Psychology¸ 34, 434-446. (special issue on short-term memory)
Lewandowsky, S., & Clark, C. D. (1997). Using the web to facilitate international academic exchange. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 29, 180-181.
Lewandowsky, S., Dunn, J. C., Kirsner, K., & Randell, M. (1997). Expertise in the Management of Bush Fires: Training and Decision Support. The Australian Psychologist, 32, 171-177.
Smith, W., Randell, M., Lewandowsky, S., Kirsner, K., & Dunn, J. C. (1996). Collaborative research into cognitive technology: The role of shared commitment, problem coherence and domain knowledge. Cognitive Technology, 1, 9-18.
Li, S.-C., Lewandowsky, S., & DeBrunner, V. E. (1996). Using parameter sensitivity and interdependence to predict model scope and falsifiability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125, 360-369.
Albright, C. A., Truitt, T. R., Barile, A. L., & Vortac, O.U. (1995). Controlling traffic without flight progress strips: Compensation, workload, performance, and opinion. Air Traffic Control Quarterly, 2, 229-248.Edwards, M. B., Fuller, D. K., Vortac, O. U., & Manning, C. A. (1995). The role of flight progress strips in en route air traffic control: A time-series analysis. I nternational Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 43, 1-13.
Lewandowsky, S. (1995). Base-rate neglect in ALCOVE: A critical reexamination. Psychological Review, 102, 185-191.
Li, S.-C., & Lewandowsky, S. (1995). Forward and backward recall: Different retrieval processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 837-847.
Vortac, O. U., Edwards, M. B., & Manning, C. A. (1995). Function of external cues in prospective memory. Memory, 3, 201-219.
Lewandowsky, S. (1994). On the relation between catastrophic interference and generalization in connectionist networks. Journal of Biological Systems, 2, 307-333 .
Lewandowsky, S., & Li, S.-C. (1994). Memory for serial order revisited. Psychological Review, 101, 539-543.
Vortac, O. U., Edwards, M. B., & Manning, C. A. (1994). Sequences of actions for individual and teams of air traffic controllers. Human Computer Interaction, 9, 319-343.
Bainbridge, J. V., Lewandowsky, S., & Kirsner, K. (1993). Context effects in repetition priming are sense effects. Memory & Cognition, 21, 619-626.
Lewandowsky, S. (1993). The rewards and hazards of computer simulations. Psychological Science, 4, 236-243.
Lewandowsky, S., Herrmann, D. J., Behrens, J. T., Li, S.-C., Pickle, L., & Jobe, J. B. (1993). Perception of clusters in statistical maps. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 7, 533-551.
Li, S.-C., & Lewandowsky, S. (1993). Intra-list distractors and recall direction: Constraints on models of memory for serial order. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 895-908 .
Vortac, O. U., Edwards, M. B., Fuller, D. K., & Manning C. A. (1993). Automation and cognition in air traffic control: An empirical investigation. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 7, 631-651.
Vortac, O. U., Edwards, M. B., Jones, J. P., Manning, C. A., & Rotter, A. J. (1993). En route air traffic controller’s use of flight progress strips: A graph-theoretic analysis. International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 3, 327-343.
Gronlund, S. D., & Lewandowsky, S. (1992). Making TV commercials as a teaching aid for cognitive psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 19, 158-160.
(Reprinted in: M. E. Ware & D. E. Johnson (Eds.), Handbook of demonstrations and activities in teaching psychology. Volume 2: Physiological-comparative, perception, learning, cognition, and developmental. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.)
Spence, I., & Lewandowsky, S. (1991). Displaying proportions and percentages. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 5, 61-77.
Lewandowsky, S., & Murdock, B. B., Jr. (1989). Memory for serial order. Psychological Review, 96, 25-58.
Lewandowsky, S., & Spence, I. (1989). Discriminating strata in scatterplots. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84, 682-688.
Lewandowsky, S., & Spence, I. (1989). The perception of statistical graphs. Sociological Methods and Research, 18, 200-242.
Spence, I., & Lewandowsky, S. (1989). Robust multidimensional scaling. Psychometrika, 54, 501-513.
Lewandowsky, S., & Hockley, W. E. (1987). Does CHARM need depth?: Similarity and levels of processing effects in cued recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 13, 443-455.
Lewandowsky, S. (1986). Priming in recognition memory for categorized lists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 12, 562-574.
Lewandowsky, S., & Smith, P. W. (1983). The effect of increasing the memorability of category instances on estimates of category size. Memory & Cognition, 11, 347-350.
Refereed Proceedings:
Lloyd, K., Sanborn, A., Leslie, D., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Why Does Higher Working Memory Capacity Help You Learn? In G. Gunzelman, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.767–772). London, UK: Cognitive Science Society.
Hoareau, V., Portrat, S., Oberauer, K., Lemaire, B., Plancher, G., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Computational and behavioral investigations of the SOB-CS removal mechanism in working memory. In G. Gunzelman, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 532-537). London, UK: Cognitive Science Society.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2013). Removal of information from working memory. In M. Knau, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 400-405). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Little, D. R., Lewandowsky, S., & Craig, S. (2013). Working memory capacity and fluid abilities: The more difficult the item, the more more is better. In M. Knau, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 918-923). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Little, D. R., Lewandowsky, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2012). A Bayesian Model of Raven’s Progressive Matrices. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1918-1923). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ecker, U. K. H., Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2009). Components of working memory updating. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31 st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 347-352). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Lewandowsky, S., & Tan, G. P. A. (2000). The dynamics of trust: Comparing humans to machines. In Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Cognitive Science Conference. Newcastle, NSW, Australia: University of Newcastle.
DeBrunner, V. E., Li, S.-C., & Lewandowsky, S. (1996). Sensitivity and learning of two digital artificial neural network structures. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 3 (pp. 445-448). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
Lewandowsky, S., & Behrens, J. T. (1996). Visual detection of clusters in statistical maps. In Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section of the 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association (pp. 8-17). Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
Albright, C. A., & Lewandowsky, S. (1995). Momentum in a complex monitoring task. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology. Columbus: Ohio State University.
Truitt, T. R., Albright, C. A., Barile, A. B., & Vortac, O. U. (1995). How controllers compensate for the lack of flight progress strips. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Aviation Psychology. Columbus: Ohio State University.
Lewandowsky, S., & Myers, W. E. (1993). Magnitude judgments in 3D bar charts. In R. Steyer, K. F. Wender, & K. F. Widaman (Eds.) Psychometric methodology. Proceedings of the 7th European Meeting of the Psychometric Society in Trier (pp. 266-271). Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag.
Lewandowsky, S., & Newman, D. A. (1993). Chronometric scaling of numbers. In R. Steyer, K. F. Wender, & K. F. Widaman (Eds.) Psychometric methodology. Proceedings of the 7th European Meeting of the Psychometric Society in Trier (pp. 272-277). Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag.
Vortac, O. U. (1993). Should Hal open the pod bay doors? An argument for modular automation. In D. J. Garland & J. A. Wise (Eds.), Human factors and advanced aviation technologies. Daytona Beach: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Press.
Lewandowsky, S., & Murdock, B. B., Jr. (1989). A distributed memory model for associative learning. In D. Vickers & P. L. Smith (Eds.), Human information processing: Measures, mechanisms, and models (pp. 381-394). Amsterdam: North Holland.
Murdock, B. B., Jr., & Lewandowsky, S. (1986). Chaining 100 years later. In F. Klix & H. Hagendorf (Eds.), Human memory and cognitive capabilities (pp. 79-96). Amsterdam: North Holland.
Edited Books:
W. G. K. Stritzke, S. Lewandowsky, D. Denemark, J. Clare, & F. Morgan (Eds.). (2009). Terrorism and torture: An interdisciplinary perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
F. T. Durso, R. Nickerson, S. Dumais, S. Lewandowsky, & T. Perfect (Eds.). (2007). Handbook of applied cognition (2nd Ed.) . Chicester: Wiley.
Hockley, W. E., & Lewandowsky, S. (1991). (Eds.). Relating theory and data: Essays on human memory in honor of Bennet B. Murdock. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Lewandowsky, S., Dunn, J. C., & Kirsner, K. (1989). (Eds.). Implicit memory: Theoretical issues. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Lewandowsky, S. (2019). In whose hands the future? In J. E. Uscinski (Ed.), Conspiracy theories and the people who believe them (pp. 149-177). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Uscinski, J. E.; Douglas, K. & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Climate Change Conspiracy Theories. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science.
Lewandowsky, S., & Oberauer, K. (2016). Computational modeling in cognition and cognitive neuroscience. In Wagenmakers, E.-J. (Ed.), Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Fourth Edition, Volume Five: Methodology . Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Cook, J., Ecker, U. K. H., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). Misinformation and its correction. In R. Scott & S. Kosslyn (Eds.), Emerging trends in the social and behavioral sciences . Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). An introduction to cognitive modeling. In B. U. Forstmann, & E.-J. Wagenmakers (Eds.), An introduction to model-based cognitive neuroscience . New York: Springer.
Ecker, U. K. H., Swire, B., & Lewandowsky, S. (2014). Correcting misinformation—A challenge for education and cognitive science. In D. N. Rapp & J. Braasch (Eds.), Processing Inaccurate Information: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives from Cognitive Science and the Educational Sciences (pp. 13-38). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lewandowsky, S. (2013). Rehearsal and memory. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the mind (Vol. 17, pp. 642-644). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Little, D. R., & Lewandowsky, S. (2011). Multiple-cue probability learning. In N. Seel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. New York: Springer Verlag.
Brown, G. D. A., & Lewandowsky, S. (2010). Forgetting in memory models: Arguments against trace decay and consolidation failure. In S. Della Sala (Ed.), Forgetting (pp. 49-75). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Lewandowsky, S., & Thomas, J. L. (2009). Expertise: Acquisition, limitations, and control. In F. T. Durso (Ed.), Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics (Volume 5, pp. 140-165). Santa Monica: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Lewandowsky, S., & Stritzke, W. G. K., Oberauer, K., & Morales, M. (2009). Misinformation and the ‘War on Terror’: When memory turns fiction into fact. In W. G. K. Stritzke, S. Lewandowsky, D. Denemark, J. Clare, & F. Morgan (Eds.), Terrorism and torture: An interdisciplinary perspective (pp. 179-203). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Stritzke, W. G. K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2009). The terrorism-torture link: When evil begets evil. In W. G. K. Stritzke, S. Lewandowsky, D. Denemark, J. Clare, & F. Morgan (Eds.), Terrorism and torture: An interdisciplinary perspective (pp. 1-17). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Lewandowsky, S., Wright, T., & Brown, G. D. A. (2007). The interpretation of temporal isolation effects. In N. Osaka, R. Logie, & M. D’Esposito (Eds.). The cognitive neuroscience of working memory: Behavioural and neural correlates (pp. 137-152). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lewandowsky, S., Little, D. R., Kalish, M. L. (2007). Knowledge and expertise. In F. T. Durso, R. Nickerson, S. Dumais, S. Lewandowsky, & T. Perfect (Eds.). Handbook of applied cognition (2nd Ed.), (pp. 83-109). Chicester: Wiley.
Lewandowsky, S., & Farrell, S. (2002). Computational models of working memory. In L. Nadel, D. Chalmers, P. Culicover, R. Goldstone, & B. French (Eds.), Encyclopedia of cognitive science (pp. 578-583). London: Macmillan.
Lewandowsky, S. (1999). Statistical graphs and maps: Higher level cognitive processes. In M. G. Sirken, D. J. Herrmann, S. Schechter, N. Schwarz, J. M. Tanur, & R. Tourangeau (Eds.), Cognition and survey research (pp. 349-362). New York: Wiley.
Lewandowsky, S., & Behrens, J. T. (1999). Statistical graphs and maps. In F. T. Durso, R. S. Nickerson, R. W. Schvaneveldt, S. T. Dumais, D. S. Lindsay, & M. T. H. Chi (Eds). Handbook of Applied Cognition (pp. 513-549). Chichester, UK: Wiley.
Lewandowsky, S. (1998). Implicit memory: Science, fiction, and a prospectus. In K. Kirsner, C. Speelman, M. Maybery, A. O’Brien-Malone, M. Anderson, & C. MacLeod (Eds.) Implicit and explicit mental processes (pp. 373-391). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Vortac, O.U., Barile, A. L., Albright, C. A., Truitt, T. R., Manning, C. A., & Bain, D. (1996). Automation of flight data in air traffic control. In D. Herrmann, M. Johnson, C. McEvoy, C. Hertzog, & P. Hertel (Eds.), Basic and applied memory: Research on practical aspects (pp. 353-366). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Lewandowsky, S., & Li, S.-C. (1995). Catastrophic interference in neural networks: Causes, solutions, and data. In F. N. Dempster & C. Brainerd (Eds.), Interference and inhibition in cognition (pp. 329-361). San Diego: Academic Press.
Lewandowsky, S., & Bainbridge, J. V. (1994). Implicit memory. In V. S. Ramachandran (Ed.), Encyclopedia of human behavior (pp. 589-600). San Diego: Academic Press.
Vortac, O. U., & Manning, C. A. (1994). Modular automation: Automating sub-tasks without disrupting task flow. In M. Mouloua & R. Parasuraman (Eds.), Human performance in automated systems: Current research and trends (pp. 325-331). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Goebel, R. P., & Lewandowsky, S. (1991). Retrieval measures in distributed memory models. In W. E. Hockley & S. Lewandowsky (Eds.), Relating theory and data: Essays on human memory in honor of Bennet B. Murdock (pp. 509-528). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Lewandowsky, S. (1991). Gradual unlearning and catastrophic interference: A comparison of distributed architectures. In W. E. Hockley & S. Lewandowsky (Eds.), Relating theory and data: Essays on human memory in honor of Bennet B. Murdock (pp. 445-476). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Lewandowsky, S., & Hockley, W. E. (1991). Relating theory and data: Towards an integration. In W. E. Hockley & S. Lewandowsky (Eds.), Relating theory and data: Essays on human memory in honor of Bennet B. Murdock (pp. 3-20). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Spence, I., & Lewandowsky, S. (1990). Graphical perception. In J. Fox & S. Long (Eds.), Modern methods of data analysis (pp. 13- 57). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Lewandowsky, S., Kirsner, K., & Bainbridge, J. V. (1989). Context effects in implicit memory: A sense-specific account. In S. Lewandowsky, J. C. Dunn, & K. Kirsner (Eds.), Implicit memory: Theoretical issues (pp. 185-198). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Book Reviews and Commentaries:
Lewandowsky, S., & Stritzke, W. G. K. (2011). Influence scholarship and ethics: Commentary on King (2010). Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 11, 35-38.
Sewell, D. K., Little, D. R., & Lewandowsky, S. (2011). Bayesian computation and mechanism: Theoretical pluralism drives scientific emergence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 212-213.
Stritzke, W. G. K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2011). ‘‘War’’ versus ‘‘Crime’’ frames in counterterrorism. Review of The consequences of counterterrorism, edited by Martha Crenshaw. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 4, 66-70
Farrell, S., & Lewandowsky, S. (2000). The case against distributed representations: Lack of evidence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 476-477.
Lewandowsky, S., & Maybery, M. (1998). The Critics Rebutted: A Pyrrhic Victory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 210-211.
Randell, M., & Lewandowsky, S. (1996). Cognition in the wilderness. Review of Cognition in the wild, by Edwin Hutchins. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 10, 456-457.
Lewandowsky, S. (1992). The adaptive character of cognitive science. Review of The adaptive character of thought, by John R. Anderson. Contemporary Psychology, 37, 633-634.
Lewandowsky, S. (1992). Unified cognitive theory: Having one’s apple pie and eating it. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15, 449-450.
Lewandowsky, S., & Dunn, J. C. (1987). Review of Multidimensional scaling: History, theory, and applications, by F. W. Young & E. Hamer. Applied Psychological Measurement, 11, 429-432.
Lewandowsky, S., & Dunbar, K. N. (1983). Cognitive psychology: A comparative review of textbooks. American Journal of Psychology, 96, 391-403.
Public Writings (Opinion Pieces and Articles for Popular Media):
I have written around 50 opinion pieces and articles for the global news media (e.g., The Guardian, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Broadcasting Corporation [ABC]) and popular scientific outlets (e.g., Scientific American, Australasian Science, Geographical [UK]).
Downloadable Research Handbooks:
Cook, J., & Lewandowsky, S. (2011). The Debunking Handbook. St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland. ISBN 978-0-646-56812-6. (Available in 11 languages, >500,000 downloads).
Corner, A., Lewandowsky, S., Phillips, M., & Roberts, O. (2015). The Uncertainty Handbook. Bristol: University of Bristol. (Available in 4 languages).
Cook, J., van der Linden, S., Maibach, E., & Lewandowsky, S. (2018). The Consensus Handbook. George Mason University. DOI:10.13021/G8MM6P.
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