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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

David R. Shanks is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with primary fields of study including Neuroscience and Psychology. Within these fields, their work encompasses Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and General Decision Sciences.

The scientist's research addresses several main topics, such as Memory Processes and Influences, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Educational Strategies and Epistemologies, Visual Perception and Processing Mechanisms, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, and Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning.

David R. Shanks has published extensively, contributing to various academic journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
  • Educational Psychology Review
  • Journal of Memory and Language

Among recent significant papers, the scientist has co-authored:

  • Testing (quizzing) boosts classroom learning: A systematic and meta-analytic review, 2021, Psychological Bulletin
  • No evidence for nudging after adjusting for publication bias, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Raising awareness about measurement error in research on unconscious mental processes, 2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • The Challenge of Inferring Unconscious Mental Processes, 2021, Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie)
  • When judging what you know changes what you really know: Soliciting metamemory judgments reactively enhances children's learning, 2021, Child Development

Co-authorship has been an important aspect of their scholarly contributions. Frequent collaborators include Chunliang Yang, Ben R. Newell, David A. Lagnado, Liang Luo, and Miguel A. Vadillo.

David R. Shanks has authored books published by recognized presses, including:

  • Open Minded, 2023, The MIT Press
  • Straight Choices, 2022, Psychology Press eBooks

The scientist has received recognition such as being named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Characteristics of dissociable human learning systems

    David R. Shanks;Mark F. St. John

  • The role of awareness in Pavlovian conditioning: Empirical evidence and theoretical implications

    Peter F. Lovibond;David R. Shanks

  • Unconscious influences on decision making: a critical review.

    Ben R. Newell;David R. Shanks

  • Judgement of act-outcome contingency: The role of selective attribution

    Anthony Dickinson;David Shanks;John Evenden

  • Forward and backward blocking in human contingency judgement

    David R. Shanks

  • The Psychology of Associative Learning

    David R. Shanks

  • Disrupted prediction-error signal in psychosis: evidence for an associative account of delusions.

    P.R. Corlett;G.K. Murray;G.D. Honey;M.R.F. Aitken

  • Associative Accounts of Causality Judgment

    David R. Shanks;Anthony Dickinson

  • A Re-examination of Probability Matching and Rational Choice

    David R. Shanks;Richard J. Tunney;John D. McCarthy

  • Take the best or look at the rest? Factors influencing "one-reason" decision making.

    Ben R. Newell;David R. Shanks

  • Learning: from association to cognition.

    David R. Shanks

  • Empirical tests of a fast-and-frugal heuristic: Not everyone "takes-the-best"

    Ben R Newell;Nicola J Weston;David R Shanks

  • Priming Intelligent Behavior: An Elusive Phenomenon

    David R. Shanks;Ben R. Newell;Eun Hee Lee;Divya Balakrishnan

  • Underpowered samples, false negatives, and unconscious learning

    Miguel A. Vadillo;Emmanouil Konstantinidis;David R. Shanks

  • Responses of human frontal cortex to surprising events are predicted by formal associative learning theory

    P. C. Fletcher;J. M. Anderson;D. R. Shanks;R. Honey

  • FEATURE- AND RULE-BASED GENERALIZATION IN HUMAN ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING

    David R. Shanks;Richard J. Darby

  • Instrumental judgment and performance under variations in action-outcome contingency and contiguity.

    David R. Shanks;Anthony Dickinson

  • Testing (quizzing) boosts classroom learning: A systematic and meta-analytic review

    Chunliang Yang;Liang Luo;Miguel A. Vadillo;Rongjun Yu

  • Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making

    Benjamin R. Newell;David A. Lagnado;David R. Shanks

  • Intentional control and implicit sequence learning.

    Leonora Wilkinson;David R. Shanks

  • IMPLICIT LEARNING AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE - AN ESSAY ON THE COGNITIVE UNCONSCIOUS - REBER,A

    D Shanks

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel A. Vadillo
Miguel A. Vadillo Autonomous University of Madrid
Ben R. Newell
Ben R. Newell University of New South Wales
David A. Lagnado
David A. Lagnado University College London
Anthony Dickinson
Anthony Dickinson University of Cambridge
José C. Perales
José C. Perales University of Granada
Shelley Channon
Shelley Channon University College London
Paul C. Fletcher
Paul C. Fletcher University of Cambridge
Charles Hulme
Charles Hulme University of Oxford
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Michael R. F. Aitken
Michael R. F. Aitken King's College London

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