Publications

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Submitted / In Press

Hayes, W. M., Holmes, W. R., & Trueblood, J. S. (submitted). Attribute comparability and context effects in preferential choice.

Trueblood, J. S., Liu, Y., Murrow, M., Hayes, W. M., & Holmes, W. R. (submitted). Attentional dynamics explain the elusive nature of context effects. 

2024

Hayes, W. M., Yax, N., & Palminteri, S. (2024). Large language models are biased reinforcement learners. arXiv:2405.11422 (link)

Hayes, W. M., Yax, N., & Palminteri, S. (2024). Relative value biases in large language models. arXiv:2401.14530 (link)24 01.14530232401.14530 2401.14530

2023

Hayes, W. M., & Wedell, D. H. (2023). Effects of blocked versus interleaved training on relative value learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Advance online publication. (link)

Gao, C., Hayes, W. M., LaPierre, M., & Shinkareva, S. V. (2023). The effect of auditory valence on subsequent visual semantic processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Advance online publication. (link)

Hayes, W. M., & Wedell, D. H. (2023). Testing models of context-dependent outcome encoding in reinforcement learning. Cognition, 230, 105280. (link)

Hayes, W. M., & Wedell, D. H. (2023). Reinforcement learning in and out of context: The effects of attentional focus. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(8), 1193-1217. (link)

2022

Wedell, D. H., Hayes, W. M., & Verma, M. (2022). Context effects on choice under cognitive load. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(5), 1986-1996. (link)

2021

Hayes, W. M., & Wedell, D. H. (2021). Regret in experience-based decisions: The effects of expected value differences and mixed gains and losses. Decision, 8(4), 277-294. (link)

2020

Hayes, W. M., & Wedell, D. H. (2020). Autonomic responses to choice outcomes: Links to task performance and reinforcement-learning parameters. Biological Psychology, 156, 107968. (link)

Wedell, D. H., Hayes, W. M., & Kim, J. (2020). Context effects on reproduced magnitudes from short-term and long-term memory. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 1710-1726. (link)

Hayes, W. M., & Wedell, D. H. (2020). Context effects in reproduction and perception of song tempo. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(2), 202-219. (link)

Hayes, W. M., & Wedell, D. H. (2020). Modeling the role of feelings in the Iowa Gambling Task. Decision, 7(1), 67-89. (link)

2018

Vanhille, S., Palmer, B., Hayes, W., & Overman, W. (2018). The effect of active participation on performance and understanding on the Iowa gambling task. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 31(5), 686-694. (link)