Edward Vul
Biographic Data
| ID | 1465488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward Vul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward |
| FAMILY NAME | Vul |
| SIGNATURE | VUL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6217-1273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Repeated rock, paper, scissors play reveals limits in adaptive sequential behavior
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios
People seem to attribute beliefs and desires to another person when interacting with them. Such a “theory of mind” capacity is essential for complex and uniquely human behavior such as language, but its evolutionary origin remains elusive. Using the formal tools of evolutionary game theory, we asked what environmental properties are necessary to select for a basic form of theory of mind—the ability to infer the prosociality, quantified by the wel…
Pulling guesses up by their bootstraps
One and Done? Optimal Decisions From Very Few Samples
In many learning or inference tasks human behavior approximates that of a Bayesian ideal observer, suggesting that, at some level, cognition can be described as Bayesian inference. However, a number of findings have highlighted an intriguing mismatch between human behavior and standard assumptions about optimality: People often appear to make decisions based on just one or a few samples from the appropriate posterior probability distribution, rat…
Measuring the Development of Social Attention Using Free‐Viewing
How do young children direct their attention to other people in the natural world? Although many studies have examined the perception of faces and of goal‐directed actions, relatively little work has focused on what children will look at in complex and unconstrained viewing environments. To address this question, we showed videos of objects, faces, children playing with toys, and complex social scenes to a large sample of infants and toddlers bet…
Development of infants’ attention to faces during the first year
Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studiesofemotion, personality, and social cognition have drawn much attention in recent years, with high-profile studies frequently reporting extremely high (e.g., >.8) correlations between brain activation and personality measures. We show that these correlations are higher than should be expected given the (evidently limited) reliability of both fMRI and personality measures. The high correlations ar…
Spacing Effects in Learning: A Temporal Ridgeline of Optimal Retention
To achieve enduring retention, people must usually study information on multiple occasions. How does the timing of study events affect retention? Prior research has examined this issue only in a spotty fashion, usually with very short time intervals. In a study aimed at characterizing spacing effects over significant durations, more than 1,350 individuals were taught a set of facts and—after a gap of up to 3.5 months—given a review. A final test …
Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis
The authors performed a meta-analysis of the distributed practice effect to illuminate the effects of temporal variables that have been neglected in previous reviews. This review found 839 assessments of distributed practice in 317 experiments located in 184 articles. Effects of spacing (consecutive massed presentations vs. spaced learning episodes) and lag (less spaced vs. more spaced learning episodes) were examined, as were expanding interstud…
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Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis
The authors performed a meta-analysis of the distributed practice effect to illuminate the effects of temporal variables that have been neglected in previous reviews. This review found 839 assessments of distributed practice in 317 experiments located in 184 articles. Effects of spacing (consecutive massed presentations vs. spaced learning episodes) and lag (less spaced vs. more spaced learning episodes) were examined, as were expanding interstud…
Spacing Effects in Learning: A Temporal Ridgeline of Optimal Retention
To achieve enduring retention, people must usually study information on multiple occasions. How does the timing of study events affect retention? Prior research has examined this issue only in a spotty fashion, usually with very short time intervals. In a study aimed at characterizing spacing effects over significant durations, more than 1,350 individuals were taught a set of facts and—after a gap of up to 3.5 months—given a review. A final test …
Development of infants’ attention to faces during the first year
Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studiesofemotion, personality, and social cognition have drawn much attention in recent years, with high-profile studies frequently reporting extremely high (e.g., >.8) correlations between brain activation and personality measures. We show that these correlations are higher than should be expected given the (evidently limited) reliability of both fMRI and personality measures. The high correlations ar…
Measuring the Development of Social Attention Using Free‐Viewing
How do young children direct their attention to other people in the natural world? Although many studies have examined the perception of faces and of goal‐directed actions, relatively little work has focused on what children will look at in complex and unconstrained viewing environments. To address this question, we showed videos of objects, faces, children playing with toys, and complex social scenes to a large sample of infants and toddlers bet…
One and Done? Optimal Decisions From Very Few Samples
In many learning or inference tasks human behavior approximates that of a Bayesian ideal observer, suggesting that, at some level, cognition can be described as Bayesian inference. However, a number of findings have highlighted an intriguing mismatch between human behavior and standard assumptions about optimality: People often appear to make decisions based on just one or a few samples from the appropriate posterior probability distribution, rat…
Pulling guesses up by their bootstraps
The evolution of theory of mind on welfare tradeoff ratios
People seem to attribute beliefs and desires to another person when interacting with them. Such a “theory of mind” capacity is essential for complex and uniquely human behavior such as language, but its evolutionary origin remains elusive. Using the formal tools of evolutionary game theory, we asked what environmental properties are necessary to select for a basic form of theory of mind—the ability to infer the prosociality, quantified by the wel…
Repeated rock, paper, scissors play reveals limits in adaptive sequential behavior
Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Affect (linguistics) (2 works) · Audiology (2 works)