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.