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Brett Hayes
Professor
Research Areas: Concept formation and categorisation; Reasoning and decision-making; The development of memory; Eyewitness memory and suggestibility in children; Forensic interviewing with children; Information processing in children with developmental disabilities.
Academic Career:
PhD, 1991, UNSW
Selected Publications:
- Hayes, B. K., & Heit, E. (in press). Inductive reasoning. In Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology.
- Papadopoulos, C., Hayes, B. K., & Newell, B. (in press). Non-categorical approaches to feature prediction with uncertain categories. Memory and Cognition.
- Hayes, B., Heit, E., & Swendsen, H. (2010). Inductive reasoning. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1, 278-292
- Sweller, N., & Hayes, B. K. (2010). More than one kind of inference: Re-examining what's learned in feature inference and classification. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 1568-1589.
- Hayes, B. K., & Newell, B. R. (2009). Induction with uncertain categories: When do people consider the category alternatives? Memory & Cognition, 37, 730-743.
- Hayes, B. K., McKinnon, R., & Sweller, N. (2008). The development of category-based induction: Re-thinking conclusions from the induction then recognition paradigm. Developmental Psychology, 44, 1430-1444.
- Hayes, B. K. & Chen, T-H. J. (2008). Clinical expertise and reasoning with uncertain psychodiagnoses. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 1002-1007
- Hayes, B. K., & Thompson, S. (2007). Causal relations and feature similarity in children’s inductive reasoning, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 136, 470–484.
- Hayes, B. K. (2007). The development of inductive reasoning. In A. Feeney & E. Heit (Eds.) Inductive Reasoning: Experimental, Developmental and Computational Approaches. pp. 25-54. Cambridge University Press.
- Hayes, B. K. (2006). Knowledge, development and category learning, The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 46, 37-78.
- Hayes, B. K. & Heit, E. (2004). Why learning and development can lead to poorer recognition memory. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8, (8), 337-339.
- Hayes, B. K., Heit, E., Goodhew, A., & Gillan, J. E. (2003). The role of diverse instruction in conceptual change. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 86, 253-276.
- Hayes, B. K., Foster, K., & Gadd, N. (2003). Prior knowledge and subtyping effects in children's category learning. Cognition, 88, 177-199.
- Medin, D. L., Coley, J., Storms, G., & Hayes, B. K. (2003) A relevance theory of induction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 517-532.
- Holliday, R. & Hayes, B. K. (2001). Automatic and intentional suggestibility in children's eyewitness memory, Cognitive Development, 16, 617 - 636.
Current Research Grants:
- 2010-2012 Unifying models of reasoning and memory (with Evan Heit) Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, $254 000
- 2007-2010 As-if reasoning in categorization, reasoning and decision-making (with Ben Newell) Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, $271 000
Current Research Students:
Courses:
PSYC2061: Developmental and Social Psychology
PSYC3341: Developmental Psychology
PSYC4063: Psychology 4B
Contact Details:
Office: Mathews, Room 713 Telephone: (61-2) 9385-3713 Fax: (61-2) 9385-3641 Email: B.Hayes@unsw.edu.au
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