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Item Open Access Anatomy of the N400: brain electrical activity in propositional semantics(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 2001) Frishkoff, Gwen A.; Tucker, Don M.Item Open Access Attention(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 1990) Posner, Michael I.; Briand, Kevin A.Item Open Access Embodied meaning: an evolutionary-developmental analysis of adaptive semantics(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 2001) Tucker, Don M.Item Open Access F. EX: a coding scheme for folk explanations of behavior(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 2002) Malle, Bertram F.Item Open Access From attributions to folk explanations : an argument in 10 (or so) steps(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 2002) Malle, Bertram F.Item Open Access Implications of pathology risk and disability care for human life history evolution: evidence from Shiwiar forager-horticulturalists(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 2001) Sugiyama, Lawrence S.Item Open Access The moral dimension of intentionality judgments(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 2004) Malle, Bertram F.Item Open Access People's praise and blame for intentions and actions: implications of the folk concept of intentionality(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 2002) Malle, Bertram F.; Bennett, Ruth E.Item Open Access The relation between language and theory of mind in development and evolution(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 2002) Malle, Bertram F.Item Open Access The role of orienting attention for learning novel phonetic categories(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 2002) Guion, Susan G.; Pederson, EricItem Open Access Shiwiar health risk and the evolution of health care provisioning(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 2002) Sugiyama, Lawrence S.Item Open Access Social poker: a paradigm for studying the formation of self-organized groups(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 1999) Arrow, Holly; Bennett, Ruth E.; Crosson, Scott, 1970-; Orbell, JohnItem Open Access What are values? A folk-conceptual investigation(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 2004) Malle, Bertram F.; Edmondson, EricItem Open Access Why are Formal Models Useful in Psychology?(Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, 1990) Hintzman, Douglas L.This chapter explores the value of formal (mathematical and computer) models in psychology. Research on factors that have been shown to bias and limit unaided human reasoning is briefly reviewed, and it is noted that psychologists are susceptible to these errors, just as their subjects are. Characteristics of formal models are discussed in relation to such errors, in an effort to identify the ways in which models can and cannot aid scientific thought. Some limitations of the modeling approach are also discussed. It is argued that because psychological models greatly oversimplify the domains to which they are applied, model evaluation is a complex matter. The measure of a model's value lies not in its ability to fit data, but in how much we can learn from it.