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Overview

Chris Donkin is a researcher affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their work primarily spans the fields of psychology and decision sciences, with a specialized focus on cognitive neuroscience, general decision sciences, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and applied psychology.

Their research topics include decision-making and behavioral economics, neural and behavioral psychology studies, mental health research topics, behavioral health and interventions, human-automation interaction and safety, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, and personal information management and user behavior.

Chris Donkin has contributed to a number of peer-reviewed publications across several reputable venues. These include:

  • Psychological Review
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Philosophical Psychology
  • Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • Cognition

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Chris Donkin are:

  • "Arrested Theory Development: The Misguided Distinction Between Exploratory and Confirmatory Research" (2021) published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests" (2022) published in Philosophical Psychology
  • "Adapting to the algorithm: how accuracy comparisons promote the use of a decision aid" (2022) published in Cognitive Research Principles and Implications
  • "An evaluation and comparison of models of risky intertemporal choice." (2020) published in Psychological Review
  • "Toward nonprobabilistic explanations of learning and decision-making." (2022) published in Psychological Review

Frequent collaborators of Chris Donkin include Ben R. Newell, Jennifer Sloane, Aba Szollosi, Garston Liang, and Jake Ryan Embrey, reflecting ongoing partnerships within the research community.

Best Publications

  • Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory.

    Klaus Oberauer;Stephan Lewandowsky;Edward Awh;Gordon D.A. Brown

  • The hare and the tortoise: emphasizing speed can change the evidence used to make decisions.

    Babette Rae;Andrew Heathcote;Chris Donkin;Lee Averell

  • Diffusion versus linear ballistic accumulation: different models but the same conclusions about psychological processes?

    Chris Donkin;Scott Brown;Andrew Heathcote;Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

  • Short-Term Memory Scanning Viewed as Exemplar-Based Categorization.

    Robert M. Nosofsky;Daniel R. Little;Christopher Donkin;Mario Fific

  • The Quality of Response Time Data Inference: A Blinded, Collaborative Assessment of the Validity of Cognitive Models

    Gilles Dutilh;Jeffrey Annis;Scott D. Brown;Peter Cassey

  • Metastudies for robust tests of theory

    Beth Baribault;Chris Donkin;Daniel R Little;Jennifer S Trueblood

  • The overconstraint of response time models: rethinking the scaling problem.

    Christopher Donkin;Scott D. Brown;Andrew Heathcote

  • Is preregistration worthwhile

    Aba Szollosi;David Kellen;Danielle J. Navarro;Richard Shiffrin

  • Discrete-Slots Models of Visual Working-Memory Response Times

    Christopher Donkin;Robert M. Nosofsky;Jason M. Gold;Richard M. Shiffrin

  • An integrated model of choices and response times in absolute identification

    Scott D. Brown;A. A. J. Marley;Christopher Donkin;Andrew Heathcote

  • Drawing conclusions from choice response time models: A tutorial using the linear ballistic accumulator

    Chris Donkin;Scott Brown;Andrew Heathcote

  • The EZ diffusion model provides a powerful test of simple empirical effects

    Don van Ravenzwaaij;Chris Donkin;Joachim Vandekerckhove

  • Robust Modeling in Cognitive Science

    Lee;A.H. Criss;B. Devezer;C. Donkin

  • A Power-Law Model of Psychological Memory Strength in Short- and Long-Term Recognition

    Chris Donkin;Robert M. Nosofsky

  • Cognitive control and counterproductive oculomotor capture by reward-related stimuli

    Daniel Pearson;Chris Donkin;Sophia C. Tran;Steven B. Most

  • Unconscious information changes decision accuracy but not confidence.

    Alexandra Vlassova;Chris Donkin;Joel Pearson

  • Measuring Intuition: Nonconscious Emotional Information Boosts Decision Accuracy and Confidence

    Galang Lufityanto;Chris Donkin;Joel Pearson

  • Converging measures of workload capacity.

    Ami Eidels;Chris Donkin;Scott D. Brown;Andrew Heathcote

  • The structure of short-term memory scanning: an investigation using response time distribution models

    Chris Donkin;Robert M. Nosofsky

  • Arrested Theory Development: The Misguided Distinction Between Exploratory and Confirmatory Research.

    Aba Szollosi;Chris Donkin

  • Logical rules and the classification of integral-dimension stimuli.

    Daniel R. Little;Robert M. Nosofsky;Christopher Donkin;Stephen E. Denton

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben R. Newell
Ben R. Newell University of New South Wales
Robert M. Nosofsky
Robert M. Nosofsky Indiana University
Richard M. Shiffrin
Richard M. Shiffrin Indiana University
Nelson Cowan
Nelson Cowan University of Missouri
Mike E. Le Pelley
Mike E. Le Pelley University of New South Wales
Jörg Rieskamp
Jörg Rieskamp University of Basel
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers University of Amsterdam
Daniel J. Simons
Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gordon D. A. Brown
Gordon D. A. Brown University of Warwick
Andrew R. A. Conway
Andrew R. A. Conway Claremont Graduate University

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