Vartanian, O., & Mandel, D. R. (Eds.) (in press). Neuroscience of decision making [in the "Contemporary Approaches in Cognitive Neuroscience" series]. New York: Psychology Press.
Mandel, D. R., & Dhami, M. K. (Eds.) (2005). Psychological perspectives on threats to democracy. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 5(1).
Mandel, D. R., Hilton, D. J., &
Catellani, P. (Eds.) (2005). The psychology of counterfactual thinking.
New York: Routledge.
A review of The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking by Terry Connolly is available in
the Summer 2007 edition of The European Association for Decision Making Bulletin.
See also The EAESP Small Group Meeting on Counterfactual Thinking, Aix-en-Provence, France, May 16-18, 2001
Papers (* = peer-reviewed)
In press
Mandel, D. R. (in press). Confirmation and positive-test biases in hypothesis testing. Intelligence Analyst Training Newsletter.
*Mandel, D. R. & Vartanian, O. (in press). Bush v. Bin Laden: Effect of state emotion on perceived threat is mediated by emotion towards the threat agent. International Review of Social Psychology.
Mandel, D. R. & Vartanian, O. (in press). Frame, brains, and content domains: Neural and behavioral effects of descriptive content on preferential choice. In O. Vartanian and D. R. Mandel (Eds.), Neuroscience of decision making. New York: Psychology Press.
*Mandel, D. R., Vartanian, O., Adams, B. D., & Thomson, M. H. (in press). Performance of UN military observer teams: Does victim proximity escalate commitment to saving lives? Human Performance.
*Mandel, D. R. (in press). Predicting blame assignment in a case of harm caused by negligence. Mind & Society.
Mandel, D.R. (in press). Affect and risk perception in the context of terrorism: Towards an understanding of its psychosocial aspects. In A. Speckhard (Ed.) Psychosocial, Organizational, and Cultural Aspects of Terrorism: Final Report to NATO HFM140/RTO. Brussels: NATO.
Mandel, D. R. (in press). The role of instigators in radicalization to violent extremism. In A. Speckhard (Ed.) Psychosocial, Organizational, and Cultural Aspects of Terrorism: Final Report to NATO HFM140/RTO. Brussels: NATO.
2010
Campbell, A., & Mandel, D.R. (2010). Summary record of the GFF Community of Interest on the Practice and Organization of Intelligence Ottawa Roundtable: What can the cognitive and behavioural sciences contribute to intelligence analysis? Towards a collaborative agenda for the future. DRDC Toronto contractor report CR-2010-012 [unclassified].
Mandel, D. R. (2010). Radicalization: What does it mean? In T. Pick & A. Speckhard (Eds.), Indigenous terrorism: Understanding and addressing the root causes of radicalisation among groups with an immigrant heritage in Europe. Amsterdam: IOS Press.
Mandel, D. R. (2010). Instigators and perpetrators of collective violence. In L. Fenstermacher, L. Kuznar, & A. Speckhard (Eds), Protecting the Homeland from International and Domestic Terrorism Threats: Current Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Root Causes, the Role of Ideology, and Programs for Counter-radicalization and Disengagement (pp. 122-128). Washington: D.C.: U.S. Government.
2009
*Mandel, D. R., & Vartanian, O. (2009). Weighting of contingency information in causal judgment: Evidence of hypothesis dependence and use of a positive-test strategy. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62(12), 2388-2408.
Mandel, D. R. (2009). Applied behavioural science in support of intelligence: Experiences in building a Canadian capability. Commissioned report to the Committee on Field Evaluation of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences-Based Methods and Tools for Intelligence and Counter-intelligence, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies.
Ferriday, C., Vartanian, O., & Mandel, D.R. (2009). Falling off the self-imposed pedestal: How audience presence and feedback affect aggressive responding in narcissists. DRDC Toronto technical report TR-2009-215 [unclassified].
*Kamleitner, B., Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2009). Gambling for a discount: Preferring a discount per item to discount per purchase? Advances in Consumer Research, 36, 566-567.
2008
*Mandel, D. R. (2008). Violations of coherence in subjective probability: A representational and assessment processes account. Cognition, 106(1), 130-156.
*Mandel, D. R., & Vartanian, O. (2008). Taboo or tragic: Effect of tradeoff type on moral choice, conflict, and confidence, Mind & Society, 7(2), 215-226.
Mandel, D. R. (2008, June). Judgment under uncertainty. Intelligence Analyst Training Newsletter, 7-9.
Pavlovic, N. J., Casagrande Hoshino, L., Mandel, D. R., & Dorn, A. W. (2008). Indicators and indices of conflict and security: A review and classification of open-source data. DRDC Toronto technical report TR-2008-167 [unclassified]
Pavlovic, N. J., Blackler, K., & Mandel, D. R. (2008). Conflict and security indices. DRDC Toronto technical memorandum TM-2008-168 [unclassified].
2007
*Dhami, M. K., Mandel, D. R., &
Sothmann, K. (2007). An evaluation of post-adoption services. Children and Youth Services Review, 29(2), 162-179.
*Mandel, D. R. (2007). Differential focus in causal and counterfactual thinking: Different possibilities or different functions? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(5), 460-461.
*Mandel, D. R. (2007). Nested-sets theory, full stop: Explaining performance on Bayesian inference tasks without dual-systems assumptions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(3), 275-276.
Mandel, D. R. (2007). Toward a concept of risk for effective military decision making. DRDC Toronto technical report 2007-124 [unclassified].
*Williams, J. J., & Mandel, D. R. (2007). Do evaluation frames improve the quality of conditional probability judgment? In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1653-1658), Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
2006
*Dhami, M.K., Mandel, D. R., Loewenstein, G., & Ayton, P. (2006). Prisoners' positive illusions of their post-release success. Law and Human Behavior, 30, 631-647.
*Mandel, D. R. (2006). Economic transactions among friends: Asymmetric generosity but not agreement in buyers' and sellers' offers. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 50(4), 584-606.
[Featured in Harvard Negotiation Newsletter, 10(3), 12, March 2007 (see Research Summary "Dealing with Friends").]
*Mandel, D. R., & Vartanian, O. (2006). Is the weighting of contingency data contingent on the hypothesis assessed? In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2652). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
*White, K., Lehman, D.R., Hemphill,
K. J., Mandel, D. R., & Lehman, A. M. (2006). Causal attributions, perceived control, and
psychological adjustment: A study of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36(1), 75-99.
2005
Dhami, M. K., Mandel, D. R., &
Souza, K. (2005). Escape from reality: Prisoner's counterfactual thinking
about crime, justice and punishment. In D. R. Mandel, D. J Hilton, & P.
Catellani (Eds.), The psychology of counterfactual thinking (pp. 165-182). New York:
Routledge.
*Mandel, D. R. (2005). Are risk assessments of a terrorist attack coherent? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 11(4), 277-288.
[Featured September 24, 2007, in The Washington Post.]
Mandel, D. R. (2005). Counterfactual
and causal explanation: From early theoretical views to new frontiers. In
D. R. Mandel, D. J Hilton, & P. Catellani (Eds.), The psychology of
counterfactual thinking (pp. 11-23). New York: Routledge.
*Mandel, D. R. (2005). Threats to democracy: A judgment and decision making perspective. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 5(1), 209-222.
Mandel, D. R., & Dhami, M. K.(2005). Introduction to the special issue, psychological perspectives on threats to democracy. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 5(1), 205-207.
*Mandel, D. R., & Dhami, M. K. (2005). "What I did" versus "What I might have done": Effect of factual and counterfactual thinking on blame, guilt, and shame in
prisoners. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 637-645.
Mandel, D. R., Hilton, D. J., & Catellani, P. (2005). Introduction. In
D. R. Mandel, D. J Hilton, & P. Catellani (Eds.), The psychology of
counterfactual thinking (pp. 1-7). New York: Routledge.
2004
Mandel, D.R. (2004). Social psychological perspectives on the instigation of collective violence. In D. Munos-Rojas, J.-M. Falomir, & X. Chryssochoou (Eds.) Proceedings of the Conference on War and Peace: Social Psychological Approaches to Armed Conflict and Humanitarian Issues] (pp. 183-190). Geneva, Switzerland: International Committee of the Red Cross and University of Geneva.
Mandel, D. R. (2004). Unanimity
may be improbable; dictatorship is worse: Comment on The Dangers
of Unanimity by R. B. Zajonc. Dialogue, 19(2), 28-29.
2003
Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2003). Adoption Support Program Queen Alexandra Centre for Children's Health: Evaluation of Client Services 2003 Final Report (Technical report).
*Mandel, D. R. (2003). Counterfactuals,
emotion, and context. Cognition & Emotion, 17, 139-159.
*Mandel, D. R. (2003). Effect of
counterfactual and factual thinking on causal judgments. Thinking &
Reasoning, 9, 245-265.
*Mandel, D. R. (2003). Judgment
dissociation theory: An analysis of differences in causal, counterfactual,
and covariational reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General,
137, 419-434.
*Mandel, D. R. (2003). Simulating
history: The problem of contingency. Analyses of Social Issues and Public
Policy, 3, 177-180.
Mandel, D.R. (2003). The obedience
alibi. In M.C. Cardwell, E.Clark and C.Meldrum (Eds.). Psychology for AS-level
(3rd ed., p. 174). London: Collins.
*Spellman, B. A., & Mandel,
D. R. (2003). Causal reasoning, Psychology of. In Nadel, L. (Ed.) Encyclopedia
of Cognitive Science (Vol. 1, pp. 461-466). London: Nature Publishing
Group.
2002
*Lehman, A. M., Lehman, D. R., Hemphill,
K. J., Mandel, D. R., & Cooper, L. M. (2002). Illness experience, depression,
and anxiety in chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Psychosomatic Research,
52, 461-465.
*Mandel, D. R. (2002). Beyond mere
ownership: Transaction demand as a moderator of the endowment effect. Organizational
Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 88, 737-747.
*Mandel, D. R. (2002). Evil and
the instigation of collective violence. Analyses of Social Issues and Public
Policy, 2, 101-108.
[Abbreviated reprint: Mandel, D. R. (2010). The war on terror is described as a battle between good and evil. In D. Bryfonski (Ed.), Violence in William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
Mandel, D. R. (2002). Instigators
of genocide: Examining Hitler from a social psychological perspective. In
L. S. Newman and R. Erber (Eds.), Understanding genocide: The social psychology
of the Holocaust (pp. 259-284). New York: Oxford University Press.
*Villejoubert, G., & Mandel,
D. R. (2002). The inverse fallacy: An account of deviations from Bayes's theorem
and the additivity principle. Memory & Cognition, 30, 171-178.
2001
*Mandel, D. R. (2001). Gain-loss
framing and choice: Separating outcome formulations from descriptor formulations.
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 85, 56-76.
2000
*Mandel, D. R. (2000). On the meaning
and function of normative analysis: Conceptual blur in the rationality debate?
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 686-687.
1999
*Spellman, B. A., & Mandel,
D. R. (1999). When possibility informs reality: Counterfactual thinking as
a cue to causality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8,
120-123.
[Reprinted in: Spellman, B. A., & Willingham, D. T. (Eds). (2005). Current Directions in Cognitive Science: Readings from the American Psychological Society. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education / Prentice Hall.]
1998
*Mandel, D. R. (1998). The obedience
alibi: Milgram's account of the Holocaust reconsidered. Analyse & Kritik:
Zeitschrift fur Sozialwissenschaften, 20, 74-94.
*Mandel, D. R., & Lehman, D.
R. (1998). Integration of contingency information in judgments of cause, covariation,
and probability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127,
269-285.
1997
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1996
*Mandel, D. R., & Lehman, D.
R. (1996). Counterfactual thinking and ascriptions of cause and preventability.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 450-463.
1995
*Mandel, D. R. (1995). Chaos theory,
sensitive dependence, and the logistic equation. American Psychologist,
50, 106-107.
*Mandel, D. R., Lehman, D. R., &
Yuille, J. C. (1995). Reasoning about the removal of a child from home: A
comparison of police officers and social workers. Journal of Applied Social
Psychology, 25, 906-921.
1994
*Mandel, D. R., Lehman, D. R., &
Yuille, J. C. (1994). Should this child be removed from home? Hypothesis generation
and information seeking as predictors of case decisions. Child Abuse &
Neglect, 18, 1051-1062.
*Mill, D., Gray, T., & Mandel,
D. R. (1994). The influence of research methods and statistics courses on
everyday reasoning and belief in unsubstantiated phenomena. Canadian Journal
of Behavioural Science, 26, 246-258.
1993
*Lehman, D. R., Davis, C. G., DeLongis,
A., Wortman, C. B., Bluck, S., Mandel, D. R., & Ellard, J. H. (1993).
Positive and negative life changes following bereavement and their relations
to adjustment. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 12,
90-112.
*Mandel, D. R., Axelrod, L. J.,
& Lehman, D. R. (1993). Integrative complexity in reasoning about the
Persian Gulf War and the accountability-to-skeptical-audience hypothesis.
Journal of Social Issues, 49, 201-215.