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Khemlani, S. S., Sussman, A. B. & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2011). Harry Potter and the sorcerer's scope: latent scope biases in explanatory reasoning. Memory & Cognition, 39(1).
Khemlani, S. S., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2010). When One Model Casts Doubt on Another: A Levels-of-Analysis Approach to Causal Discounting. Psychological Bulletin.
Diemand-Yauman, C., Oppenheimer, D. M., & Vaughan, E. (2010). Fortune favors the Bold (and the Italicized): Effects of disfluency on educational outcomes. Cognition.
Stimuli from Study 1
Alter, A. L., Oppenheimer, D. M., & Zemla, J. C. (2010). Missing the trees for the forest: A construal level account of the illusion of explanatory depth. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 99(3), 436–451.
Alter, A. L., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2009). Suppressing Secrecy Through Metacognitive Ease: Cognitive Fluency Encourages Self-Disclosure. Psychological Science 20(11), 1414-1420.
Oppenheimer, D. M., Meyvisb, T., & Davidenkoc, N. (2009). Instructional manipulation checks: Detecting satisficing to increase statistical power. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(4), 867-872 .
Alter, A. L., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2009). Uniting the tribes of fluency to form a metacognitive nation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13(3), 219-235.
Oppenheimer, D. M., & Monin, B. (2009). The retrospective gambler’s fallacy: Unlikely events, constructing the past, and multiple universes. Judgment and Decision Making, 4(5), 326–334.
Young, S., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2009). Effect of communication strategy on personal risk perception and treatment adherence intentions. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 14(4), 430-442.
Steffel, M., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2009). Happy by what standard? The role of interpersonal and intrapersonal comparisons in ratings of happiness. Social Indicators Research, 92, 69-80.
Blinder, D. S., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2008). Beliefs about what kind of mechanisms produce random sequences. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21,414–427.
Oppenheimer, D. M. (2008). The secret life of fluency. Trends in Cognitive Science, 12(6), 237-241.
Alter, A. L., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2008). Easy on the mind, easy on the wallet: The effects of familiarity and fluency on currency valuation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 985-990.
Olivola, C. Y., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2008). Randomness in retrospect: Exploring the interactions between memory and randomness cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 991-996.
Shah, A. K., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2008). Heuristics made easy: An effort-reduction framework. Psychological Bulletin, 134(2), 207-222.
Alter, A. L., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2008). Effects of fluency on psychological distance and mental construal (or why New York is a large city, but New York is a civilized jungle). Psychological Science, 19, 161-167.
Oppenheimer, D. M., & Frank, M. F. (2007). A rose in any other font would not smell as sweet: Effects of perceptual fluency on categorization. Cognition, 106(3), 1178-1194.
Shah, A. K., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2007). Easy does it: The role of fluency in cue weighting. Judgment and Decision Making, 2(6), 371-379.
Alter, A. L., Oppenheimer, D. M., Epley, N., & Eyre, R.N. (2007). Overcoming intuition: Metacognitive difficulty activates analytic reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 569-576.
Oppenheimer, D. M., Leboeuf, R. A., & Brewer, N. T. (2008). Anchors aweigh: A demonstration of cross-modality anchoring and magnitude priming. Cognition, 106(1), 13-26.
Young, S. D., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2006). Percentages matter: Framing risk information can affect fear of side effects and medication compliance. Clinical Therapeutics, 28(1), 129-139.
Alter, A. L., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2006). Predicting short-term stock fluctuations by using processing fluency. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(24), 9369-72.
Alter, A. L., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2006). From a fixation on sports to an exploration of mechanism: The past, present, and future of hot hand research. Thinking and Reasoning, 12(4), 431-444.
Bangerter, A., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2006). Accuracy of detecting referents of pointing gestures unaccompanied by language. Gesture, 6(1), 85-102.
Griffin, Z. M., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2006). Looking and lying: Speakers' gazes reflect locus of attention, not content. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32(4), 943-948.
Oppenheimer, D. M. (2005). Consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity: Problems with using long words needlessly. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20(2), 139-156.
Monin, B., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2005). Correlated averages vs. averaged correlations: Demonstrating the warm glow heuristic beyond aggregation. Social Cognition, 23, 257-278.
Oppenheimer, D. M. (2004). Spontaneous discounting of availability in frequency judgment tasks. Psychological Science, 15(2), 100-105.
Oppenheimer, D. M. (2003). Not so fast! (and not so frugal!): Rethinking the recognition heuristic. Cognition, 90, B1-B9.