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Capturing richer information: On establishing the validity of an interval-valued survey response mode (2021)
Journal Article
Ellerby, Z., Wagner, C., & Broomell, S. B. (2022). Capturing richer information: On establishing the validity of an interval-valued survey response mode. Behavior Research Methods, 54, 1240-1262. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01635-0

Obtaining quantitative survey responses that are both accurate and informative is crucial to a wide range of fields. Traditional and ubiquitous response formats such as Likert and visual analogue scales require condensation of responses into discrete... Read More about Capturing richer information: On establishing the validity of an interval-valued survey response mode.

Probability Matching on a Simple Simulated Foraging Task: The Effects of Reward Persistence and Accumulation on Choice Behavior (2019)
Journal Article
Ellerby, Z., & Tunney, R. J. (2019). Probability Matching on a Simple Simulated Foraging Task: The Effects of Reward Persistence and Accumulation on Choice Behavior. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 15(2), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0261-2

Over a series of decisions between two or more probabilistically rewarded options, humans have a tendency to diversify their choices, even when this will lead to diminished overall reward. In the extreme case of probability matching, this tendency is... Read More about Probability Matching on a Simple Simulated Foraging Task: The Effects of Reward Persistence and Accumulation on Choice Behavior.

On the Relationship between Similarity Measures and Thresholds of Statistical Significance in the Context of Comparing Fuzzy Sets (2019)
Journal Article
McCulloch, J., Ellerby, Z., & Wagner, C. (2019). On the Relationship between Similarity Measures and Thresholds of Statistical Significance in the Context of Comparing Fuzzy Sets. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2019.2922161

Comparing fuzzy sets by computing their similarity is common, with a large set of measures of similarity available. However, while commonplace in the computational intelligence community, the application and results of similarity measures are less co... Read More about On the Relationship between Similarity Measures and Thresholds of Statistical Significance in the Context of Comparing Fuzzy Sets.

The effects of heuristics and apophenia on probabilistic choice (2018)
Journal Article
Ellerby, Z. W., & Tunney, R. J. (in press). The effects of heuristics and apophenia on probabilistic choice. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 13(4), https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0228-9

Given a repeated choice between two or more options with independent and identically distributed reward probabilities, overall pay-offs can be maximized by the exclusive selection of the option with the greatest likelihood of reward. The tendency to... Read More about The effects of heuristics and apophenia on probabilistic choice.