Selected Publications
Martin, S.A. & Bassok, M. (submitted). Mathematical experience and reliance on the semanticalignment heuristic.
Bassok, M. (in press). Analogical transfer in problem solving. In Davidson, J.E. and Sternberg,
R. J. (Eds.) The Nature of Problem Solving. Cambridge University Press.
Bassok, M. (2001). Semantic alignments in mathematical word problems. In Gentner, D.,
Holyoak, K. J., & Kokinov, B. N. (Eds.) The analogical mind: Perspectives from
cognitive science (Chapter 12, 401-433). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Wisniewski, E. J., & Bassok, M. (1999) Stimulus compatibility with comparison and integration.
Cognitive Psychology, 39, 208-238.
Alibali, M. W., Bassok, M., Olseth, K. L., Syc. S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (1999) Illuminating
mental representations through speech and gesture. Psychological Science, 10, 327-333.
Bassok, M, Chase, V. M, & Martin, S. A. (1998). Adding apples and oranges: Alignment of
semantic and formal knowledge. Cognitive Psychology, 35, 99-134
Bassok, M. (1997). Object-based reasoning. In D. L. Medin (Ed.) The Psychology of Learning
and Motivation, Vol. 37, pp. 1-39. Academic Press.
Bassok, M. (1997). Two types of reliance on correlations between content and structure in
reasoning about word problems. In L. English (Ed.) Mathematical reasoning:
Analogies, metaphors, and images. (Chapter 7), pp. 221- 246 . Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Bassok, M., & Medin, D. L. (1997). Birds of a feather flock together: Similarity judgments with
semantically-rich stimuli. Journal of Memory and Language, 36, 311-336.
Bassok, M. (1996). Using content to interpret structure: Effects on analogical transfer. Current
Directions in Psychological Science, 5, 54-58.
Bassok, M., & Olseth, K. L. (1995). Object-based representations: Transfer between cases of
continuous and discrete models of change. Journal of Experimental Psychology:
Learning Memory and Cognition, 21, 1522-1538.
Bassok, M., Wu, L., & Olseth, L. K. (1995). Judging a book by its cover: Interpretative effects
of content on problem solving transfer. Memory & Cognition, 23, 354-367.
Bassok, M., & Holyoak, K. J. (1993) Pragmatic knowledge and conceptual structure:
Determinants of transfer between quantitative domains. In D. K. Detterman & R. J.
Sternberg (Eds.) Transfer on trial: Intelligence, Cognition, and Instruction. Norwood,
NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp., pp. 68-98.
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Bassok, M., (1990). Transfer of domain-specific problem solving procedures. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory , and Cognition, 16, 522-533.
Bassok, M. (1989). Cognitive science that even Dostoyevski would have liked. Review of The
computer and the mind: An introduction to cognitive science by P. N. Johnson-Laird.
Contemporary Psychology, 34, 655-656.
Bassok, M., & Holyoak, K. J. (1989). Interdomain transfer between isomorphic topics in algebra
and physics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory , and Cognition,
15, 153-166.
Chi, M. T. H., & Bassok, M. (1989). Learning from examples via self-explanations. In L. B.
Resnick (Ed.), Knowing, learning, and instruction: Essays in honor of Robert Glaser,
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum., pp. 251-282.
Chi, M. T. H., Bassok, M., Lewis, M. W., Reimann, P., & Glaser, R. (1989). Self-explanations:
How students study and use examples in learning to solve problems. Cognitive Science,
13, 145-182.
Glaser, R., & Bassok, M. (1989). Learning theory and the study of instruction. Annual Review
of Psychology, 40. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews Inc., 631-666.
Trope, Y., Bassok, M., & Alon, E. (1984). The questions lay interviewers ask. Journal of
Personality, 52, 90-106.
Bassok, M., & Trope, Y. (1983). People's strategies for testing hypotheses about another's
personality: Confirmatory or diagnostic? Social Cognition, 2, 199-216.
Trope, Y., & Bassok, M. (1983). Information-gathering strategies in hypothesis testing. Journal
of Experimental and Social Psychology, 19, 560-576.
Trope, Y., & Bassok, M. (1982). Confirmatory and diagnosing strategies in social information
gathering. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43, 22-34.
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