= Petter Johansson
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<Petter Johansson> studies decision processes and the relation between choices and reported reasons. In a <choice blindness> experiment, a selected outcome was covertly exchanged before participants explained their choice. Some participants supplied reasons for an outcome they had not selected. Comparing detection with explanation shows why a fluent retrospective account is not by itself proof of accurate access to the process that generated the original decision. <Failure to detect mismatches between intention and outcome in a simple decision task by Petter Johansson and others>[2005, choice substitution and verbal explanations]{ref}
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