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Trent N. Cash

Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Waterloo

Publications


Metacognition and Decision Making




Beyond Introspection: Inferring Decision Weights from Others’ Multi-Attribute Choices


Trent N. Cash, Daniel M. Oppenheimer

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (In Press)




Resource-Rational Allocation of Metacognitive Resources in Value-Based Multi-Attribute Choice


Trent N. Cash, Daniel M. Oppenheimer

Thinking & Reasoning, 2026, Advance online publication




Assessing Metacognitive Knowledge in Subjective Decisions: The Knowledge of Weights Paradigm


Trent N. Cash, Daniel M. Oppenheimer

Thinking & Reasoning, vol. 31(3), 2025, pp. 331-373




Parental rights or parental wrongs: Do parents know what factors influence their school choice decisions?


Trent N. Cash, Daniel M. Oppenheimer

PLOS ONE, vol. 19(4), 2024, pp. e0301768


Cognition in an AI-Powered World




Is AI Making Us Stupid?


Trent N. Cash, Megan O. Kelly, Brooke N. Macnamara, Evan F. Risko

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 30(8), 2026, pp. 673-675




You’ve Got AI Friend in Me: LLMs as Collaborative Learning Partners


Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Trent N. Cash, Allison E. Connell Pensky

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, vol. 35, 2025, pp. 3896-3921


Metacognitive Capacities of AI




Quantifying Uncert-AI-nty: Testing the Accuracy of LLMs’ Confidence Judgments


Trent N. Cash, Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Sara Christie, Mira Devgan

Memory & Cognition, vol. 54(2), 2026, pp. 375-400




Generative Chatbots AIn’t Experts: Exploring Cognitive and Metacognitive Limitations that Hinder Expertise in Generative Chatbots.


Trent N. Cash, Daniel M. Oppenheimer

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, vol. 13(4), 2024, pp. 490-494


Educational Outcomes and Interventions




School well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic: A study of academic motivation, need satisfaction, and school liking among gifted and non-identified early adolescents


Tzu-Jung Lin, Trent N. Cash, Hyun Ji Lee, Saetbyul Kim, Eric M. Anderman, Wonjoon Cha, Xingfeiyue Liu, Ziye Wen

Gifted Child Quarterly, vol. 70(3), 2026, pp. 368-387




Linking knowledge justification with peers to the learning of social perspective taking


Saetbyul Kim, Tzu-Jung Lin, Michael Glassman, Seung Yon Ha, Ziye Wen, Manisha Nagpal, Trent N. Cash, Elizabeth Kraatz

Journal of Moral Education, vol. 53(2), 2024, pp. 321-341



Papers Under Review




The end of thinking? Offloading in the age of AI


Evan F. Risko, Trent N. Cash, Megan O. Kelly, Brooke N. Macnamara


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