Phillips, B. C., Novick, L. R., & Catley, K. M. (2011). The Great Chain of Being: The Influence of Diagram Design and Teleological Beliefs on Students' Interpretations of Human Evolution. Manuscript under revision for an invited resubmission.

     Novick, L. R., & Catley, K. M. (2011). Responding to Anomalous Data Presented Diagrammatically: Effects of Instructional Background, Presentation Order, and Strength of Evidence. Invited resubmission under review.

     Novick, L. R., Pickering, J., MacDonald, T., Diamond, J., et al. (2011). Depicting the Tree of Life in Museums: Guiding Principles from Psychological Research. Manuscript under review.

     Novick, L. R., & Catley, K. M. (2011). Reasoning about Evolution's Grand Patterns: College Students' Understanding of the Tree of Life. Invited resubmission under review.

Publications

     Bassok, M., & Novick, L. R. (in press). Problem Solving. To appear in K. J. Holyoak & R. G. Morrison (Eds.), Oxford handbook of thinking and reasoning.

     Catley, K. M., Novick, L. R., & Funk, D. J. (in press). The promise and challenges of introducing tree thinking into evolution education. In K. Rosengren, E. M. Evans, S. Brem, & G. Sinatra (Eds.), Evolution Challenges: Integrating Research and Practice in Teaching and Learning about Evolution.

     Novick, L. R., Shade, C. K., & Catley, K. M. (2011). Linear versus branching depictions of evolutionary history: Implications for diagram design. Topics in Cognitive Science, 3, 536-559.

     Novick, L. R., Catley, K. M., & Funk, D. J. (2011). Inference is Bliss: Using Evolutionary Relationship to Guide Categorical Inferences. Cognitive Science, 35, 712-743.

     Novick, L. R., Catley, K. M., & Funk, D. J. (2010). Characters are key: The effect of synapomorphies on cladogram comprehension. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 3, 539-547.

     Morabito, N., Catley, K. M., & Novick, L. R. (2010). Reasoning about evolutionary history: The effects of biology background on post-secondary students' knowledge of most recent common ancestry and homoplasy. Journal of Biological Education, 44, 166-174.

     Catley, K. M., Novick, L. R., & Shade, C. K. (2010). Interpreting evolutionary diagrams: When topology and process conflict. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 47, 861-882.

     Hurley, S. M., & Novick, L. R. (2010). Solving problems using matrix, network, and hierarchy diagrams: The consequences of violating construction conventions. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 275-290.

     Catley, K. M., & Novick, L. R. (2009). Digging deep: Exploring college students' knowledge of macroevolutionary time. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 46, 311-332.

     Catley, K. M., & Novick, L. R. (2008). Seeing the wood for the trees: An analysis of evolutionary diagrams in biology textbooks. BioScience, 58, 976-987.

     Novick, L. R., & Sherman, S. J. (2008). The effects of superficial and structural information on on-line problem solving for good versus poor problem solvers. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1098-1120.

     Novick, L. R., & Catley, K. M. (2007). Understanding phylogenies in biology: The influence of a Gestalt perceptual principle. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 13, 197-223.

     Cheng, P. W., Novick, L. R., Liljeholm, M., & Ford, C. (2007). Explaining four psychological asymmetries in causal reasoning: Implications of causal assumptions for coherence. In M. O'Rourke (Ed.), Topics in contemporary philosophy, vol. 4: Explanation and causation (Ch. 1, pp. 1-32). MIT Press.

     Novick, L. R. (2006). Understanding spatial diagram structure. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 1826-1856.

     Hurley, S. M., & Novick, L. R. (2006). Context and structure: The nature of students' knowledge about three spatial diagram representations. Thinking & Reasoning, 12, 281-308.

     Novick, L. R. (2006). The importance of both diagrammatic conventions and domain-specific knowledge for diagram literacy in science: The hierarchy as an illustrative case. In D. Barker-Plummer, R. Cox, & N. Swoboda (Eds.), Diagrams 2006, LNAI 4045 (pp. 1-11). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

     Whitley, K. N., Novick, L. R., & Fisher, D. (2006). Evidence in favor of visual representation for the dataflow paradigm: An experiment testing LabVIEW's comprehensibility. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 64, 281-303.

     Cheng, P. W., & Novick, L. R. (2005). Constraints and nonconstraints in causal reasoning: Reply to White (2005) and to Luhmann & Ahn (2005). Psychological Review, 112, 694-707.

     Novick, L. R., & Bassok, M. (2005). Problem solving. In K. J. Holyoak & R. G. Morrison (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of thinking and reasoning (Ch. 14, pp. 321-349). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

     Novick, L. R., & Sherman, S. J. (2004). Type-based bigram frequencies for five-letter words. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36, 397-401.

     Novick, L. R. (2004). Diagram literacy in pre-service math teachers, computer science majors, and typical undergraduates: The case of matrices, networks, and hierarchies. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 6, 307-342.

     Novick, L. R., & Cheng, P. W. (2004). Assessing interactive causal influence. Psychological Review, 111, 455-485.

     Novick, L. R. (2003). At the forefront of thought: The effect of media exposure on airplane typicality. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 971-974.

     Ahn, W-k., Novick, L. R., & Kim, N. (2003). Understanding behavior makes it more normal. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 746-752.

     Novick, L. R. (2003). Problem solving, Psychology of. In L. Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cognitive science (Vol. 3, pp. 734-740). London: Nature Publishing Group.

     Novick, L. R., & Sherman, S. J. (2003). On the nature of insight solutions: Evidence from skill differences in anagram solution. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56A, 351-382.

     Novick, L. R., & Hurley, S. M. (2001). To matrix, network, or hierarchy: That is the question. Cognitive Psychology, 42, 158-216.

     Novick, L. R. (2001). Spatial diagrams: Key instruments in the toolbox for thought. In D. L. Medin (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 40, pp. 279-325). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

     Novick, L. R., & Morse, D. L. (2000). Folding a fish, making a mushroom: The role of diagrams in executing assembly procedures. Memory & Cognition, 28, 1242-1256.