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Overview

Evan F. Risko is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and conducts research primarily in neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and sociology and political science.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas, notably memory processes and influences, neural and behavioral psychology studies, mind wandering and attention, personal information management and user behavior, cognitive functions and memory, decision-making and behavioral economics, and spatial cognition and navigation.

Risko has published in several frequent venues, reflecting the diversity of their research interests:

  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Memory
  • The Journal of Experimental Education
  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • Cognition

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "The Bullshitting Frequency Scale: Development and psychometric properties" (2020), published in British Journal of Social Psychology
  • "'You can't bullshit a bullshitter' (or can you?): Bullshitting frequency predicts receptivity to various types of misleading information" (2021), published in British Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Offloading information to an external store increases false recall" (2020), published in Cognition
  • "Study effort and the memory cost of external store availability" (2022), published in Cognition
  • "TL;DR: Longer Sections of Text Increase Rates of Unintentional Mind-Wandering" (2020), published in The Journal of Experimental Education

Collaborations form an important aspect of Risko's research efforts. Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Megan O. Kelly
  • Xinyi Lu
  • Jonathan A. Fugelsang
  • Michelle Ashburner
  • Mona J. H. Zhu

Best Publications

  • Cognitive Offloading

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  • Everyday Attention: Variation in Mind Wandering and Memory in a Lecture

    Evan F. Risko;Nicola Anderson;Amara Sarwal;Megan Engelhardt

  • Mind-wandering with and without intention.

    Paul Seli;Evan F. Risko;Daniel Smilek;Daniel L. Schacter

  • On the Necessity of Distinguishing Between Unintentional and Intentional Mind Wandering

    Paul Seli;Evan F. Risko;Daniel Smilek

  • Social attention with real versus reel stimuli: toward an empirical approach to concerns about ecological validity.

    Evan F. Risko;Kaitlin E. W. Laidlaw;Megan Freeth;Tom Foulsham

  • Mathematics anxiety affects counting but not subitizing during visual enumeration

    Erin A. Maloney;Evan F. Risko;Daniel Ansari;Jonathan Fugelsang

  • Breaking the Fourth Wall of Cognitive Science Real-World Social Attention and the Dual Function of Gaze

    Evan F. Risko;Daniel C. Richardson;Alan Kingstone

  • Everyday attention and lecture retention: the effects of time, fidgeting, and mind wandering.

    James Farley;Evan F. Risko;Alan Kingstone

  • Correlates of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Method Effects.

    Lena C. Quilty;Jonathan M. Oakman;Evan Risko

  • Storing information in-the-world: Metacognition and cognitive offloading in a short-term memory task☆

    Evan F. Risko;Timothy L. Dunn

  • Item-specific adaptation and the conflict-monitoring hypothesis: a computational model.

    Chris Blais;Serje Robidoux;Evan F. Risko;Derek Besner

  • Everyday attention: Mind wandering and computer use during lectures

    Evan F. Risko;Dawn Buchanan;Srdan Medimorec;Alan Kingstone

  • Eyes wide shut: implied social presence, eye tracking and attention.

    Evan F. Risko;Alan Kingstone

  • On the relation between math and spatial ability: The case of math anxiety

    Amanda M. Ferguson;Erin A. Maloney;Jonathan Fugelsang;Evan F. Risko

  • Recurrence quantification analysis of eye movements.

    Nicola C. Anderson;Walter F. Bischof;Kaitlin E. W. Laidlaw;Evan F. Risko

  • Reducing the Sex Difference in Math Anxiety: The Role of Spatial Processing Ability.

    Erin A. Maloney;Stephanie Waechter;Evan F. Risko;Jonathan A. Fugelsang

  • On the relation between motivation and retention in educational contexts: The role of intentional and unintentional mind wandering.

    Paul Seli;Jeffrey D Wammes;Evan F Risko;Daniel Smilek

  • Curious eyes: Individual differences in personality predict eye movement behavior in scene-viewing

    Evan F. Risko;Nicola C. Anderson;Sophie Lanthier;Alan Kingstone

  • Intrusive thoughts: linking spontaneous mind wandering and OCD symptomatology

    Paul Seli;Evan F. Risko;Christine Purdon;Daniel Smilek

  • Challenging the reliability and validity of cognitive measures: The case of the numerical distance effect

    Erin A. Maloney;Evan F. Risko;Frank Preston;Daniel Ansari

  • THEORETICAL NOTE Item-Specific Adaptation and the Conflict-Monitoring Hypothesis: A Computational Model

    Chris Blais;Serje Robidoux;Evan F. Risko;Derek Besner

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Kingstone
Alan Kingstone University of British Columbia
Derek Besner
Derek Besner University of Waterloo
Daniel Smilek
Daniel Smilek University of Waterloo
Jonathan A. Fugelsang
Jonathan A. Fugelsang University of Waterloo
Paul Seli
Paul Seli Duke University
Sidney K. D'Mello
Sidney K. D'Mello University of Colorado Boulder
Colin MacLeod
Colin MacLeod University of Western Australia
Arthur C. Graesser
Arthur C. Graesser University of Memphis
Caitlin Mills
Caitlin Mills University of Minnesota
Tom Foulsham
Tom Foulsham University of Essex

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