Sher, S., Müller-Trede, J., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (in press). Choices without preferences: Principles of rational arbitrariness. Psychological Review.

Nelkin, D. K., McKenzie, C. R. M., Rickless, S. C., & Ryazanov, A. A. (2023).  Trolley problems reimagined: Sensitivity to ratio, risk, and comparisons.  In F. Aguiar, H. Viciana, & A. Gaitan (Eds.), Experiments in moral and political philosophy.  Routledge.

Ryazanov, A. A., Wang, T., Nelkin, D. K., McKenzie, C. R. M., & Rickless, S. C. (2023).  Beyond killing one to save five: Sensitivity to ratio and probability in moral judgment.  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108.

Leong, L. M., Müller-Trede, J., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2023).  Is it a judgment of representativeness? Re-examining the birth sequence problem. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 30, 731–738.

Sher, S., McKenzie, C. R. M., Müller-Trede, J., & Leong, L. M. (2022).  Rational choice in context.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31, 518–525.

Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2022).  Incomplete preferences and rational framing effects.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e220: 40-41.

Ryazanov, A. A., Wang, S. T., Rickless, S. C., McKenzie, C. R. M., & Nelkin, D. K. (2021).  Sensitivity to shifts in probability of harm and benefit in moral dilemmas. Cognition, 209.

McKenzie, C. R. M., Leong, L. M., & Sher, S. (2021).  Default sensitivity in attempts at social influence.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 695-702.

Leong, L. M., Yin, Y., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2020). Exploiting asymmetric signals from choices through default selection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 162-169.

McKenzie, C. R. M., & Sher, S. (2020).  Gamble evaluation and evoked reference sets: Why adding a small loss to a gamble increases its attractiveness.  Cognition, 194.

Donnelly, K., McKenzie, C. R. M., & Müller-Trede, J. (2019).  Do publications in low-impact journals help or hurt a CV?  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 25, 744-752.

Leong, L. M., McKenzie, C. R. M., Sher, S., & Müller-Trede, J. (2019).  Illusory inconsistencies in judgment: Stimulus-evoked reference sets and between-subjects designs.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, 647-653.

McKenzie, C. R. M., Sher, S., Leong, L. M., & Müller-Trede, J. (2018).  Constructed preferences, rationality, and choice architecture.  Review of Behavioral Economics, 5, 337-360.

Müller-Trede, J., Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2018).  When payoffs look like probabilities: Separating form and content in risky choice.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147, 662-670.

Leong, L. M., McKenzie, C. R. M., Sher, S., & Müller-Trede, J. (2017).  The role of inference in attribute framing effects.  Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, 1147-1156.

McKenzie, C. R. M., Sher, S., Müller-Trede, J., Lin, C., Liersch, M. J., & Rawstron, A.    G. (2016).  Are longshots only for losers? A new look at the last race effect. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 29, 25-36.

Müller-Trede, J., Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2015). Transitivity in context: A rational analysis of intransitive choice and context-sensitive preference. Decision, 2, 280-305.

Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2014).  Options as information: Rational reversals of evaluation and preference.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1127-1143.

Rusconi, P., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2013).  Insensitivity and oversensitivity to answer diagnosticity in hypothesis testing.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 2443-2464.

McKenzie, C. R. M., & Chase, V. M. (2012). Why rare things are precious: The importance of rarity in lay inference.  In P. M. Todd, G. Gigerenzer, & The ABC Research Group (Eds.), Ecological rationality: Intelligence in the world (pp. 309-334)  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McKenzie, C. R. M., & Liersch, M. J. (2011).  Misunderstanding savings growth: Implications for retirement savings behavior.  Journal of Marketing Research, 48, S1-S13.

McKenzie, C. R. M., Liersch, M. J., & Sher, S. (2011).  Framing effects, default effects, and trust.  Published as part of a webconference on "Decision Making for a Social World".

Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2011).  Levels of information: A framing hierarchy. In G. Keren (Ed.), Perspectives on framing (pp. 35-63). Psychology Press – Taylor & Francis Group.

Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2010).  Framing effects.  In P. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences (pp. 322-324)  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schotter, E. R., Berry, R. W., McKenzie, C. R. M., & Rayner, K. (2010).  Gaze bias: Selective encoding and liking effects.  Visual Cognition, 18, 1113-1132.

Nelson, J. D., McKenzie, C. R. M., Cottrell, G. W., & Sejnowski, T. J. (2010). Experience matters: Information acquisition optimizes probability gain. Psychological Science, 21, 960-969.

Nelson, J. D., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2009).  Confirmation bias. In M. W. Kattan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of medical decision making (pp. 161-171).  London: Sage.     

McKenzie, C. R. M. (2009).  Business and psychology: The growing trend of judgment and decision making.  Rady Business Journal, 2, 16-22.

McKenzie, C. R. M. (2009).  Bayes plus environment.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences,    32, 93-94.

Liersch, M. J., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2009).  Duration neglect by numbers -- and its elimination by graphs.  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 108, 303-314.

McKenzie, C. R. M., Liersch, M. J., & Yaniv, I. (2008).  Overconfidence in interval estimates: What does expertise buy you?  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 107, 179-191.

Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2008).  Framing effects and rationality.  In N. Chater & M. Oaksford & (Eds.), The probabilistic mind: Prospects for Bayesian cognitive science (pp. 79-96).  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McKenzie, C. R. M., & Mikkelsen, L. A. (2007).  A Bayesian view of covariation assessment.  Cognitive Psychology, 54, 33-61.

Sher, S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2006). Information leakage from logically equivalent frames.  Cognition, 101, 467-494.

McKenzie, C. R. M. (2006).  Increased sensitivity to differentially diagnostic answers using familiar materials: Implications for confirmation bias.  Memory and Cognition, 34, 577-588.

McKenzie, C. R. M., Liersch, M. J., & Finkelstein, S. R. (2006).  Recommendations implicit in policy defaults.  Psychological Science, 17, 414-420.

Roy, M. M., Christenfeld, N. J. S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2005).  Underestimating the duration of future events: Memory incorrectly utilized or memory bias? Psychological Bulletin, 131, 738-756.

Roy, M. M., Christenfeld, N. J. S., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (2005).  The broad applicability of memory bias and its coexistence with the planning fallacy: Reply   to Griffin and Buehler (2005).  Psychological Bulletin, 131, 761-762.

McKenzie, C. R. M. (2005).  Judgment and decision making.  In K. Lamberts & R. L. Goldstone (Eds.), Handbook of cognition (pp. 321-338).  London: Sage.

McKenzie, C. R. M. (2004). Framing effects in inference tasks -- and why they are normatively defensible.  Memory and Cognition, 32, 874-885.

McKenzie, C. R. M. (2004). Hypothesis testing and evaluation.  In D. J. Koehler & N. Harvey (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of judgment and decision making (pp. 200-219). Oxford: Blackwell.

McKenzie, C. R. M., Wixted, J. T., & Noelle, D. C. (2004). Explaining purportedly irrational behavior by modeling skepticism in task parameters: An example examining confidence in forced-choice tasks.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 947-959.

McKenzie, C. R. M., & Nelson, J. D. (2003). What a speaker’s choice of frame reveals: Reference points, frame selection, and framing effects. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 10, 596-602.

McKenzie, C. R. M. (2003).  Rational models as theories -- not standards -- of behavior. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 403-406.

McKenzie, C. R. M., & Amin, M. B. (2002). When wrong predictions provide more support than right ones. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9, 821-828.

McKenzie, C. R. M., Lee, S. M., & Chen, K. K. (2002). When negative evidence increases confidence: Change in belief after hearing two sides of a dispute. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 15, 1-18.

McKenzie, C. R. M., & Wixted, J. T. (2001). Participant skepticism: If you can’t beat it, model it. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 424-425.

McKenzie, C. R. M., Ferreira, V. S., Mikkelsen, L. A., McDermott, K. J., & Skrable, R. P. (2001). Do conditional hypotheses target rare events?  Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 85, 291-309.

McKenzie, C. R. M., Wixted, J. T., Noelle, D. C., & Gyurjyan, G. (2001). Relation between confidence in yes-no and forced-choice tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 140-155.

McKenzie, C. R. M., & Mikkelsen, L. A. (2000). The psychological side of Hempel’s paradox of confirmation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 7, 360-366.

McKenzie, C. R. M. (1999). (Non)Complementary updating of belief in two hypotheses. Memory and Cognition, 27, 152-165.

McKenzie, C. R. M. (1998). Taking into account the strength of an alternative hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 771-792.

McKenzie, C. R. M. (1997). Underweighting alternatives and overconfidence. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 71, 141-160.

McKenzie, C. R. M., & Soll, J. B. (1996). Which reference class is evoked? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 34-35.

McKenzie, C. R. M. (1994). The accuracy of intuitive judgment strategies: Covariation assessment and Bayesian inference. Cognitive Psychology, 26, 209-239. [1994 Hillel Einhorn New Investigator Award; 1992 Decision Analysis Student Paper Competition Award]

McKenzie, C. R. M. (1994). Base rates versus prior beliefs in Bayesian inference. Psycoloquy, 5(1) base-rate.6.mckenzie.

McKenzie, C. R. M. (1994). Taking into account the strength of an alternative hypothesis. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences & Engineering, 55, 1694.

Hartley, A. A., Kieley, J., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (1992). Allocation of visual attention in younger and older adults. Perception & Psychophysics, 52, 175-185.

Hogarth, R. M., Gibbs, B. J., McKenzie, C. R. M., & Marquis, M. A. (1991). Learning from feedback: Exactingness and incentives. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 17, 734-752. [Reprinted in W. M. Goldstein & R. M. Hogarth (Eds.), Research on judgment and decision making: Currents, connections, and controversies (pp. 244-284), 1997. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press]

Hartley, A. A., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (1991). Attentional and perceptual contributions to the identification of extrafoveal stimuli: Adult age comparisons. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 46, 202-206.

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