A Ross Otto

Dados Biográficos

ID5448571
NOMEA Ross Otto
PRENOMESA Ross
SOBRENOMEOtto
ASSINATURAOTTO A R
AFILIAÇÕESMcGill University
ORCID0000-0002-9997-1901
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS15
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR15
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2012
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Throwing good effort after bad

    Open AccessMario Bogdanov, Sean Devine et al.ARTICLECognition2026

    The sunk-cost effect, an influential decision-making bias elicited by the consideration of past, irrecoverable resource investments toward a choice option, is well-documented for economic decisions. Contrary, evidence for sunk-cost effects for non-monetary costs, such as cognitive effort, has been mixed. Here, we present findings from two experiments in self-reported healthy adults (Exp.1 in-person, n = 36; Exp.2 online, n = 89), in which partici…

  • Increased attention towards progress information near a goal state

    Open AccessSean Devine, Y Doug Dong et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2025

  • Context effects in cognitive effort evaluation

    Open AccessSophie Desjardins, Ruoyang Tang et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2025

  • Energy use per hour is key determinant of future transport energy consumption

    Open AccessMajdi Hunter-Batal, William Fajzel et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Transportation is a growing component of global energy consumption. Improvements in efficiency over time have reduced the energy used per kilometre travelled, but so far this has not reversed the increasing energy consumption per person. Instead, due to a complex interplay of factors—including changes in the built environment, shifts in transport modes, and human behaviour—average travel distances have increased, effectively negating efficiency g…

  • Distinguishing between intrinsic and instrumental sources of the value of choice

    Open AccessSean Devine, Kevin da Silva Castanheira et al.ARTICLECognition2024

    Considerable evidence suggests that people value the freedom to choose. However, it is unclear whether this preference for choice stems purely from choice's intrinsic value, or whether people prefer to choose because it tends to provide instrumental information about desirable outcomes. To address this question, participants completed a novel choice task in which they could freely choose to exert choice or not, manipulating the level of instrumen…

  • Socioeconomic correlates of the lottery rollover effect in Toronto, Canada

    Open AccessHin‐Ngai Fu, Hin-Ngai Fu et al.ARTICLEAddiction Research & Theory2024

    Background: In a lottery with a progressive jackpot, the rollover effect refers to an increase in revenue or engagement with an accumulating jackpot size. Using an ecological dataset of lottery ticket sales aggregated by postcode, we test two corollaries of the rollover effect. First, how does the rollover effect change in neighborhoods with higher or lower socioeconomic status? Second, how do fluctuations on a progressive-prize lottery affect th…

  • Beyond first impressions

    Open AccessEliane Roy, Y Doug Dong et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2024Referências: 47

    In many contexts, the magnitude of discrimination in social judgment is determined by the level of sensitivity and bias in evaluation. However, little is known about factors that shape these processes. Using a mock admissions task, we investigated how variation in the time spent processing non-diagnostic social information (e.g., a face communicating attractiveness) versus decision-relevant information (e.g., information about candidate's qualifi…

  • The modulation of acute stress on model-free and model-based reinforcement learning in gambling disorder

    Open AccessFlorent Wyckmans, Nilosmita Banerjee et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Addictions2022

  • Reward at encoding but not retrieval modulates memory for detailed events

    Open AccessKevin da Silva Castanheira, Azara Lalla et al.ARTICLECognition2022

  • Information about task progress modulates cognitive demand avoidance

    Open AccessSean Devine, A Ross OttoARTICLECognition2022

  • Confidence in risky value-based choice

    Open AccessKevin da Silva Castanheira, Susan M Fleming et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2021

  • Seizing the opportunity

    Open AccessSean Devine, Cassandra Neumann et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • Emotional cue effects on accessing and elaborating upon autobiographical memories

    Open AccessSigny Sheldon, Kayla Williams et al.ARTICLECognition2020

  • Self‐Control Moderates Decision‐Making Behavior When Minimizing Losses versus Maximizing Gains

    Open AccessBo Pang, A Ross Otto et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Decision…2014Referências: 5

    We examined (1) whether people would be more responsive to the delayed consequences of their decisions when attempting to minimize losses than when attempting to maximize gains in a history‐dependent decision‐making task and (2) how trait self‐control would moderate such an effect. In two experiments, participants performed a dynamic decision‐making task where they chose one of two options on each trial. The increasing option always gave a smalle…

  • Taking More, Now

    Open AccessA Ross Otto, Arthur B Markman et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2012

    Impulsivity is a stable personality trait associated with myopic choice behavior that favors immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards and is often characterized as maladaptive inside and outside of the laboratory. An alternative view suggests that the consequences of trait impulsivity depend on the nature of the task environment. On this view, the optimal level of impulsivity varies across task payoff structures. This hypothesis is tested i…