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Preprints<\/h2>

Ambuehl, S., Bhui, R., and Thysen, H.C. \"Mental models of causal structure in economics and psychology.\u201d Preprint<\/a><\/p>\n

Bhui, R., Dorst, K., FeldmanHall, O., Fleming, S., Gottlieb, J., Hartley, C., Lejarraga, T., M\u00fcller-Trede, J., Radulescu, A., and Rosati, A. \"The roots of rationality.\" Preprint<\/a><\/p>\n

Bhui, R. and Xiang, Y. \"A rational account of the repulsion effect.\u201d Preprint<\/a><\/p>\n

Orchinik, R., Martel, C., Rand, D.G., and Bhui, R. \"Adaptive intuitions shape susceptibility to misinformation.<\/span>\" (minor revision at Management Science<\/em>) Preprint<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Orchinik, R., Rand, D.G., and Bhui, R. \"<\/span>The not so illusory truth effect: A rational foundation for repetition effects.\" (major revision at Psychological Science<\/em>) Preprint<\/a><\/p>\n

Orchinik, R., Bhui, R., and Rand, D.G. \"<\/span>Repetition does not increase belief in claims from distrusted politicians.\" Preprint<\/a>
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Levari, D.E., Martel, C., Orchinik, R., Bhui, R., Seli, P., Pennycook, G., and Rand, D.G. \"Blatantly false news increases belief in news that is merely implausible.\" Preprint<\/a><\/p>\n

Dorfman, H.M., and Bhui, R. \"Ambiguity and confirmation bias in reward learning.\" (major revision at Cognition<\/em>) Preprint<\/a><\/p>\n

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2025 & in press<\/h2>

Reed Orchinik, Rahul Bhui, and David G. Rand. 2025. \"Replicability and generalizability of the repeated exposure effect on moral condemnation of fake news.\"<\/span> Nature Communications<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0Publisher's Version<\/a> | PDF<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Joshua P. White and Rahul Bhui. in press. Comment: \"Minds, morality, and the Red Hand Rule: Facilitating resource-rational agreement through policy.\" Behavioral and <\/em>Brain <\/em>Sciences<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lion Schulz, Yannick Streicher, Eric Schulz, Rahul Bhui, and Peter Dayan. 2025. \"Mechanisms of mistrust: A Bayesian account of misinformation learning.\" PLOS Computational Biology.<\/em> Publisher's Version<\/a> | PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Cologna, V., Mede, N. G., Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., Maibach, E., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., Sch\u00e4fer, M. S., van der Linden, S., et al. 2025. \"Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries.\" Nature Human Behaviour.<\/em> Publisher's Version<\/a><\/p>\n

Mede, N. G.*, Cologna, V.*, Berger, S., Besley, J., Brick, C., Joubert, M., Maibach, E., Mihelj, S., Oreskes, N., Sch\u00e4fer, M. S., van der Linden, S., et al. 2025. \"Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries: The TISP dataset.\" Scientific Data.<\/em> Publisher's Version<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

2024<\/h2>

Lion Schulz and Rahul Bhui. 2024. \"Political reinforcement learners.\" Trends in Cognitive Sciences<\/em>. Publisher's Version<\/a> | PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Roey Schurr*, Daniel Reznik*, Hanna Hillman, Rahul Bhui, and Samuel J. Gershman. 2024. \"Dynamic computational phenotyping of human cognition<\/span>.\" Nature Human Behaviour<\/em>.<\/em> Publisher's Version<\/a> | PDF<\/a>
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Rachit Dubey, Mathew Hardy, Thomas L. Griffiths*, and Rahul Bhui*. 2024. \"AI-generated visuals of car-free American cities help increase support for sustainable transport policies.\" Nature Sustainability.<\/em> Publisher's Version<\/a> | News & Views<\/a><\/p>\n

Rahul Bhui and Rachit Dubey. 2024. \"Why context should matter.\" Decision<\/em>. Publisher's Version<\/a>
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Reed Orchinik, Rachit Dubey, Samuel J. Gershman, Derek Powell, and Rahul Bhui. 2024. \"<\/span>Learning from and about scientists: Consensus messaging shapes perceptions of climate change and climate scientists.\" PNAS Nexus.<\/em> Preprint<\/a> | Publisher's Version<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Joshua P. White, Rahul Bhui, Fiery Cushman, Josh Tenenbaum, and Sydney Levine. 2024. \u201cMoral flexibility in applying queuing norms can be explained by contractualist principles and game-theoretic considerations.\u201d Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.<\/em>\u00a0Publisher's Version<\/a><\/p>\n

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2023<\/h2>

Rahul Bhui and Peiran Jiao<\/span>. 2023. \u201cAttention constraints and learning in categories.<\/span>\u201d Management Science<\/em>. Publisher's Version<\/a> |\u00a0PDF<\/a><\/p>\n