After feedback, peopleãs recollections of judgments they made earlier differ systematically from their actual original judgments: Their recollection judgments are typically closer to the truth than the original judgments have been. It has been proposed that this phenomenon¨the so-called...

Crossing the street in front of oncoming vehicles poses serious danger to young children. In this research, we tried to identify children who are particularly prone to making risky crossing decisions. We used simple games involving risk to classify 5- to 6-year-olds as risk takers or risk...

Remembering past events is not merely retrieving them from storage like books from a library. Memories can be lost or distorted, and memories for events that never even happened can be induced.... Other chapters in this book deal with constraints of limited time and knowledge; in this chapter we...

[from the conclusion section:] In this chapter, we have argued (i) that the calculi of uncertainty and change provide multiple representations, which bridge the past and present, (ii) that the choice of representation is already part of the solution of the problem, and (iii) that learning to...