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Numerical and Statistical judgments

Brase, G.L. (in press). Frequency interpretation of ambiguous statistical information facilitates Bayesian reasoning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

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Brase, G.L. (in press). A field study of how different numerical information formats influence charity support. Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing. (anticip. Vol. 19, No. 2)

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Brase, G.L. & Stelzer, H.E. (2007). Education and Persuasion in Extension Forestry: Effects of Different Numerical Information Formats. Journal of Extension, 45(4) [open-access at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2007august/a1p.shtml].

 Brase, G.L. & Barbey, A.K. (2006). Mental Representations of Statistical Information.  To appear in: A. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in Psychology Research, Volume 41. (pp 91-113) New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

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Brase, G.L., Fiddick, L., & Harries, C. (2006). Participant recruitment methods and statistical reasoning performance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59(5), 965–976.
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Brase, G.L. (2002). There is no evidentiary silver bullet for the frequency adaptation hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25(4), 508-509.  
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Brase, G.L. (2002). Which Statistical Formats Facilitate what Decisions? The perception and influence of different statistical information formats. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 15(5), 381-401.
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Brase, G.L. (2002). Ecological and Evolutionary Validity: Comments on Johnson-Laird, Legrenzi, Girotto, Legrenzi, & Caverni’s (1999) Mental Model Theory of Extensional Reasoning.  Psychological Review, 109(4), 722-728. 
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Brase, G.L. (2002). “Bugs” built into the system: An evolutionary explanation for developmental difficulties in learning about fractions.  Learning and Individual Differences, 12 (4), 391-409.  
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Brase, G.L., Cosmides, L. & Tooby, J. (1998). Individuation, counting, and statistical inference: The roles of frequency and whole object representations in judgment under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127 (1), 3-21.
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Social reasoning

Brase, G.L. (2004). What we reason about and why: How evolution explains reasoning.  In: K. Manktelow & M.C. Chung (Eds.) Psychology of reasoning: Theoretical and historical perspectives. (pp. 309-331 ) Hove: Psychology Press.
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Brase, G.L. & Miller, R.L. (2001). Sex Differences in the Perception of and Reasoning About Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment. Psychology, Evolution and Gender, 3 (3), 241-264.
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Brase, G.L. (2001). Reasoning about Coalitions: Using Markers of Social Group Membership as Probabilistic Cues in Reasoning Tasks. Thinking & Reasoning, 7 (4), 313 – 346. 
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Social decision making

Evans, K. & Brase, G.L. (in press) A new methodology to assess sex difference and similarities in mate preferences: Above and beyond demand characteristics. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

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 Brase, G.L. (2006). Cues of parental investment as a factor in attractiveness.  Evolution and Human Behavior, 27(2), 145-157.
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Brase, G.L. (2004). Functional clothes for the emperor. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 328-329.
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Brase, G.L., Caprar, D.V. & Voracek, M. (2004). Sex differences in responses to relationship threats in England and Romania. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 21(6), 763-778.
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Brase, G.L. & Richmond, J. (2004). The white coat effect: Physician attire and perceived authority, friendliness, and attractiveness. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34(12), 2469-2481.
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Brase, G.L. & Walker, G.A. (2004). Male sexual strategies modify ratings of female models with specific waist-to-hip ratios. Human Nature, 15(2), 209-224.
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Brase, G.L. & Guy, E.C. (2004). The Demographics of Mate Value and Self-esteem.  Personality and Individual Differences, 36(2), 471-484.   
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Levine, R.L., Martinez, T.S., Brase, G. & Sorrensen, K. (1994). Helping behavior in 36 cities across the United States. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67 (1), 69-82.   
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Evolution and Psychology

 

Raffone, A. & Brase, G.L. (2006). The key role of prefrontal cortex structure and function. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(1), 22-22.
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Brase, G.L. (2003). The allocation system: Using signal detection processes to regulate representations in a multi-modular mind. In: K.J. Gilhooly (Series Ed.) & D.E. Over (Vol. Ed.) Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning.  Evolution and the psychology of thinking: The debate.  (pp. 11-32) Hove: Psychology Press.
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Brase, G. (2002). Mental modularity, metaphors, and the marriage of evolutionary and cognitive sciences. Cognitive Processing: International Quarterly of Cognitive Science, 3-4, 3-18. 
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Brase, G.L. (2002). Review of Conceptual Challenges in Evolutionary Psychology: Innovative Research Strategies, Edited by Harmon R. Holcomb III, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. The Human Nature Review, 2, 147-152.
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