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Bixter, M. T. & Luhmann, C. C. (in press). Delay discounting in dyads and small groups: Group leadership, status information, and actor-partner interdependence, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.


Mayor Torres, J. M., Clarkson, T., Stepanov, E. A., Luhmann, C. C., Lerner, M. D., & Riccardi, G. (2018). Enhanced error decoding from error-related potentials using convolutional neural networks. In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Annual International Conference of the IEEE (pp. 360-363). IEEE. PDF


Trimber, E. M. & Luhmann, C. C. (2017). Implicit predictions of future rewards and their electrophysiological correlates. Behavioural Brain Research, 333, 184-191. DOI


Bixter, M. T., Trimber, E. M. & Luhmann, C. C. (2017). Are intertemporal preferences contagious? Evidence from collaborative decision making. Memory & Cognition, 45, 837-851. DOI


Arfer, K. B., & Luhmann, C. C. (2017). Time-preference tests fail to predict behavior related to self-control. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 150. DOI


Luhmann, C. C., & Rajaram, S. (2015). Memory transmission in small groups and large networks: An agent-based model. Psychological Science, 26, 1909-1917. View


Liu, P., Safin, V., Yang, B., & Luhmann, C. C. (2015). Direct and indirect influence of altruistic behavior in a social network. PLoS ONE, 10(10). PDF


Massi, B., & Luhmann, C. C. (2015). Fairness influences early signatures of reward-related neural processing. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, 768-775. DOI


Bixter, M. T., & Luhmann, C. C. (2015). Evidence for implicit risk: Delay facilitates the processing of uncertainty. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 28, 347-359. DOI


Arfer, K. B., Bixter, M. T., & Luhmann, C. C. (2015). Reputational concerns, not altruism, motivate restraint when gambling with other people's money, Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 846. DOI


Arfer, K. B., & Luhmann, C. C. (2015). The predictive accuracy of intertemporal-choice models, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 68, 326-341. DOI


Liu, P., & Luhmann, C. C. (2015). Evidence for on-line processing during causal learning. Learning & Behavior, 43, 1-11. DOI


Ferson, S., Antonenko, A., O'Rawe, J., Siegrist, J., Mickley, J., Luhmann, C. C., Sentz, K., Parles, C. & Finkel, A. (2014). Natural language of uncertainty: Numeric hedge words, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 57, 19-39. DOI


Bixter, M. T., Trimber, E. M. & Luhmann, C. C. (2014). Contagion effects in intertemporal decision making. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1929-1934). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., & Bixter, M. T. (2014). Subjective hazard rates rationalize "irrational" temporal preferences. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 904-909). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF


Bixter, M. T., & Luhmann, C. C. (2014). Shared losses reduce sensitivity to risk: A laboratory study of moral hazard, Journal of Economic Psychology, 42, 63-73. DOI


Luhmann, C. C. (2013). Discounting of delayed rewards is not hyperbolic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 1274-1279. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., & Rajaram, S. (2013). Mnemonic diffusion: An agent-based modeling investigation of collective memory. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 936-941). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., & Pak, S. S. (2013). Won't you think of the children?: Traits predicting intergenerational preferences. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2949-2954). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF


Bixter, M. T., & Luhmann, C. C. (2013). Adaptive intertemporal preferences in foraging-style environments. Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience, 7. PDF


Liu, P., & Luhmann, C. C. (2013). Evidence that a transient, but cognitively demanding process underlies forward blocking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 744-766. PDF


Kujawa, A., Smith, E., Luhmann, C. C., & Hajcak, G. (2013). The feedback negativity reflects favorable compared to non-favorable outcomes based on global, not local, alternatives. Psychophysiology, 50, 134-138. PDF


Weinberg, A., Luhmann, C. C., Bress, J. N., & Hajcak, G. (2012). Better late than never? The effect of feedback delay on ERP indices of reward processing, Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 671-677. PDF


Luhmann, C. C. (2011). Integrating spatial context learning over contradictory signals: Recency effects in contextual cueing. Visual Cognition, 19, 846-862. PDF


Liu, P., & Luhmann, C. C. (2011). Blocking requires uncertainty about novel cues. In L. Carlson, C. Hoelscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1697-1702). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., & Ahn, W. (2011). Order effects during learning: Expectations and interpretations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 568-587. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., Ishida, K., & Hajcak, G. (2011). Intolerance of uncertainty and decisions about delayed, probabilistic rewards. Behavior Therapy, 42, 378-386. PDF


Rottman, B. M., Ahn, W., & Luhmann, C. C. (2011). When and how do people reason about unobserved causes? In P. M. Illari, F. Russo, & J. Williamson (Eds.), Causality in the Sciences, Oxford University Press.


Luhmann, C. C. (2009). Temporal decision-making: Insights from cognitive neuroscience. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 3. PDF


Kim, N. S., Luhmann, C. C., Pierce, M. L., & Ryan, M. M. (2009). The conceptual centrality of causal cycles. Memory & Cognition, 37, 744-758. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., Chun, M. M., Yi, D., Lee, D., & Wang, X. (2008). Neural dissociation of delay and uncertainty in inter-temporal choice. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 14459-14466. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., & Ahn, W. (2007). BUCKLE: A model of unobserved cause learning. Psychological Review, 114, 657-677. PDF


Ahn, W., Marsh, J. K., & Luhmann, C. C. (2007). Dynamic interpretations of covariation data. In Gopnik, A., & Schultz, L. (Eds.), Causal learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., Ahn, W., & Palmeri, T. J. (2006). Theory-based categorization under speeded conditions. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1102-1111. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., & Ahn, W. (2006). Modeling the role of unobserved causes in causal learning. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1741-1746). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., & Ahn, W. (2005). The meaning and computation of causal power: A critique of Cheng (1997) and Novick and Cheng (2004). Psychological Review, 112, 685-692. PDF


Luhmann, C. C. (2005). Confounded: Causal inference and the requirement of independence. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1355-1360). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. PDF


Ahn, W., & Luhmann, C. C. (2005). Demystifying theory-based categorization. In L. Gershkoff-Stowe & D. Rakison (Eds.) Building Object Categories in Developmental Time (277-300). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Inc. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., & Ahn, W. (2003). Evaluating the causal role of unobserved variables. In R. Alterman & D. Kirsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (734-739). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Inc. PDF


Luhmann, C. C., Ahn, W., & Palmeri, T. J. (2002). Theories and similarity: Categorization under speeded conditions. In W. D. Gray & C. D. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (590-595). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Inc. PDF


Ahn, W., Marsh, J., Luhmann, C. C., & Lee, K. (2002). Effect of theory-based feature correlations on typicality judgments. Memory & Cognition, 30, 107-118. PDF


Ahn, W., Kalish, C., Gelman, S. A., Medin, D. L., Luhmann, C., Atran, S., Coley, J. D., & Shafto, P. (2001). Why essences are essential in the psychology of concepts. Cognition, 82, 59-69. PDF