Håkan Nilsson
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Psychology; Perception and Cognition
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 21 43
- E-mail:
- Hakan.Nilsson@psyk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 1225
751 42 UPPSALA
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Publications
Selection of publications
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, p. 851, 2014
Part of Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, p. 203-217, 2014
Den paradoxalaspelkonsumenten? Om påverkan vid satsningar på sportsspel med odds.
Part of Marknadsföring och påverkanpå konsumenten, p. 213-232, Studentlitteratur AB, 2014
Exploring theoverestimation of conjunctive probabilities
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, p. 101, 2013
- DOI for Exploring theoverestimation of conjunctive probabilities
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People systematically overestimate conjunctive probabilities.
2013
The role of ANS-acuity and numeracy for the accuracy of subjective probability judgments.
2013
Combo bets are more attractive than single bets.
2013
2012
Hierarchical Bayesian parameter estimation for cumulative prospect theory
Part of Journal of mathematical psychology (Print), p. 84-93, 2011
Reducing cognitive biases in probabilistic reasoning by the use of logarithm formats
Part of Cognition, p. 248-267, 2011
Hierarchical Bayesian parameter estimation for models of decision under uncertainty.
2011
2011
Can bettors convert odds into probabilities?
2011
Part of Journal of Economic Psychology, p. 172-180, 2010
The rationality of weighting and adding probabilities.
2009
Linda is not a bearded lady: Configural weighting and adding as the cause of extension errors
Part of Journal of experimental psychology. General, p. 517-534, 2009
Probability theory: Not the very guide of life
Part of Psychological review, p. 856-874, 2009
Effects of conjunction fallacies in evaluating football bets.
2009
Conjunctive probabilities and monetary incentives.
2009
The effects of monetary incentives on how conjunctive probabilities areassessed.
2009
Exemplars in the Mist: The cognitive substrate of the representativeness heuristic
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, p. 201-212, 2008
Exploring the conjunction fallacy within a category learning framework
Part of Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, p. 471-490, 2008
The Cognitive Substrate of Subjective Probability
Part of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, p. 600-620, 2005
The cognitive substrate of subjective probability.
Part of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, p. 600-20, 2005
Categorization vs. inference: Shift in attention or representation?
Part of Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2005
From prototypes to exemplars: Representational shifts in a probability judgment task
Part of Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 868-873, 2003
Where do probability judgments come from? Evidence for similarity–graded probability
Part of Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 471-476, 2001
Recent publications
The similarity-updating model of probability judgment and belief revision
Part of Psychological review, p. 1088-1111, 2021
Part of Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, p. 477-491, 2020
Modeling the decision-making in human driver overtaking
Part of IFAC-PapersOnLine, p. 15338-15345, 2020
- DOI for Modeling the decision-making in human driver overtaking
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Hierarchical Bayesian parameter estimation for cumulative prospect theory: Commentary
Part of Journal of mathematical psychology (Print), 2020
Part of Judgment and Decision Making, p. 513-533, 2019
All publications
Articles in journal
The similarity-updating model of probability judgment and belief revision
Part of Psychological review, p. 1088-1111, 2021
Part of Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, p. 477-491, 2020
Modeling the decision-making in human driver overtaking
Part of IFAC-PapersOnLine, p. 15338-15345, 2020
- DOI for Modeling the decision-making in human driver overtaking
- Download full text (pdf) of Modeling the decision-making in human driver overtaking
Hierarchical Bayesian parameter estimation for cumulative prospect theory: Commentary
Part of Journal of mathematical psychology (Print), 2020
Part of Judgment and Decision Making, p. 513-533, 2019
Examining the Integrity of Evaluations of Risky Prospects Using a Single-Stimuli Design
Part of Decision, p. 362-377, 2017
Part of Journal of Cognitive Psychology, p. 106-128, 2016
Part of Psychological review, p. 103-111, 2016
Part of Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, p. 331-346, 2015
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, p. 851, 2014
Part of Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition, p. 203-217, 2014
Exploring theoverestimation of conjunctive probabilities
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, p. 101, 2013
- DOI for Exploring theoverestimation of conjunctive probabilities
- Download full text (pdf) of Exploring theoverestimation of conjunctive probabilities
Hierarchical Bayesian parameter estimation for cumulative prospect theory
Part of Journal of mathematical psychology (Print), p. 84-93, 2011
Reducing cognitive biases in probabilistic reasoning by the use of logarithm formats
Part of Cognition, p. 248-267, 2011
Part of Journal of Economic Psychology, p. 172-180, 2010
Linda is not a bearded lady: Configural weighting and adding as the cause of extension errors
Part of Journal of experimental psychology. General, p. 517-534, 2009
Probability theory: Not the very guide of life
Part of Psychological review, p. 856-874, 2009
Exemplars in the Mist: The cognitive substrate of the representativeness heuristic
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, p. 201-212, 2008
Exploring the conjunction fallacy within a category learning framework
Part of Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, p. 471-490, 2008
The Cognitive Substrate of Subjective Probability
Part of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, p. 600-620, 2005
The cognitive substrate of subjective probability.
Part of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, p. 600-20, 2005
Chapters in book
Den paradoxalaspelkonsumenten? Om påverkan vid satsningar på sportsspel med odds.
Part of Marknadsföring och påverkanpå konsumenten, p. 213-232, Studentlitteratur AB, 2014
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
People systematically overestimate conjunctive probabilities.
2013
The role of ANS-acuity and numeracy for the accuracy of subjective probability judgments.
2013
Combo bets are more attractive than single bets.
2013
2012
Hierarchical Bayesian parameter estimation for models of decision under uncertainty.
2011
Hierarchical Bayesian parameter estimation for models of decision under uncertainty.
2011
2011
Can bettors convert odds into probabilities?
2011
The rationality of weighting and adding probabilities.
2009
Effects of conjunction fallacies in evaluating football bets.
2009
Conjunctive probabilities and monetary incentives.
2009
The effects of monetary incentives on how conjunctive probabilities areassessed.
2009
Categorization vs. inference: Shift in attention or representation?
Part of Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2005
From prototypes to exemplars: Representational shifts in a probability judgment task
Part of Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 868-873, 2003
Where do probability judgments come from? Evidence for similarity–graded probability
Part of Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 471-476, 2001