Publications

Kianté Fernandez, Laura A. Berner, Blair R. K. Shevlin (2026). The threat of synthetic respondents extends to clinical mental health screening. Manuscript under review.

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Kianté Fernandez (2026). The first-passage time density for the diffusion model with variable drift and variable starting point. SSRN preprint.

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Kianté Fernandez, Xinwei Li (2026). Recovery-directed symbolic distillation of neural likelihoods. Manuscript under review.

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Kianté Fernandez, Andrea Low, Jonathan Bogard, Craig R. Fox (2026). How Vulnerable Are Consumer Research Surveys to AI Agents? Validating an Instrument-Review Framework and Auditing Recent JCR Open Materials. SSRN preprint.

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Grace Zhang, Robert Walatka, Stephanie Y. Chen, Alexander K. Moore, Oleg Urminsky, Kianté Fernandez, Andrea Low, Jonathan E. Bogard, Craig R. Fox (2026). Estimating the threat of AI-agent responding across online survey platforms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(42), e2606460123.

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Kianté Fernandez, Xiaozhi Yang, Stephanie M. Smith, Ian Krajbich (2026). Defending Against AI Agents with Webcam Eye Tracking. Manuscript under review.

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Kianté Fernandez, Caitlin Chen, Jialu Zhou, Bartek Sadowski, Anthony C. Miceli, Ian Krajbich (2026). CogArena: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents on Interactive Behavioral Experiments. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026), Evaluations and Datasets Track.

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Blair R. K. Shevlin*, Kianté Fernandez*, Roger Ratcliff, Ian Krajbich (2026). A little goes a long way: Fitting one-shot decisions with cognitive models. Manuscript in preparation.

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Kianté Fernandez, Sumedha Goyal, Ian Krajbich (2026). A database of subjective evaluation ratings for decision-making research. Manuscript under review.

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Kianté Fernandez, Dominique Makowski, Christopher Fisher (2025). SequentialSamplingModels.jl: Simulating and Evaluating Cognitive Models of Response Times in Julia. Proceedings of the JuliaCon Conferences, 7(78), 186.

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Kianté Fernandez, Uma R. Karmarkar, Ian Krajbich (2025). Preference centrality, but not set similarity, predicts choices between sets. Manuscript under review.

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Kianté Fernandez, Jaime Castrellon (2025). More Efficient Evaluation, Not a Simple Bias, Underlies Trust in Friends Across the Adult Life Span. Manuscript under review.

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Brian Kim, Kianté Fernandez, John D. Medaglia (2025). Linking Traits and Behavior Through Computational Modeling of Neuroethical Decisions. Manuscript under review.

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Kianté Fernandez, Brian A. Erickson, Joseph W. Kable, Roy H. Hamilton, John D. Medaglia (2025). Evaluating Risk and Benefit Sensitivity for Cognitive Treatments. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement.

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Ian Krajbich, Kianté Fernandez, Xiaozhi Yang (2025). Decomposing Economic Choices with Drift-Diffusion Models. In Neuroeconomics. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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Kianté Fernandez, Alexander Fengler, Anne E. Urai (2025). Choice history biases evidence accumulation: a cross-species comparison from humans to mice. Manuscript in preparation.

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Kianté Fernandez, Yizhou Lyu (2025). Attentional Mechanisms for Learning Feature Combinations. Journal of Neuroscience.

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Michael D. Nunez, Kianté Fernandez, Ramesh Srinivasan, Joachim Vandekerckhove (2024). A Tutorial on Fitting Joint Models of M/EEG and Behavior to Understand Cognition. Behavior Research Methods.

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John D. Medaglia, Kianté Fernandez (2022). The 'Crisis' Crisis in Psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45.

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Kianté Fernandez, Roy Hamilton, Laura Cabrera, John D. Medaglia (2022). Context-Dependent Risk and Benefit Sensitivity Mediate Judgments About Cognitive Enhancement. AJOB Neuroscience, 13(1), 73–77.

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