Fraud detection is usually done by looking for red flags and various other cues of deceit. Research in auditing and psychology has questioned the effectiveness of these methods. Here we summarize work on constructing a new cognitive approach to understanding both success and failure at detecting...

Discusses causes of error in real-world problem-solving tasks by considering errors as failures of reasoning and by focusing on human experts as a source of insight into the basis for reasoning errors. A theory of expertise for diagnostic tasks based on the hypothetico-deductive method of...