I study cognitive and metacognitive aspects of reasoning, problem solving, and decision making using experimental methods. My current research focuses on:

• The role of confidence in environmentally driven belief change;
• Age-related differences in decision making and belief change.
• Cognitive and affective aspects of problem solving.

Ammalainen, A., & Moroshkina, N. (2023, April 17). A sudden increase in perceptual fluency enhances the
probability of an Aha!-like comprehension in remote associate test problems.
doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/aqj5y (Preprint)

Ammalainen, A. & Moroshkina, N. (2022) Where does Eureka come from? The effect of unreportable
semantic hints in the phenomenology of insight. Journal of Intelligence, 10(4), 110.
https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10040110.

Moroshkina, N., Savina, A., Ammalainen, A., Gershkovich, V., Zverev, I., Lvova, O. (2022) How difficult was
it? Metacognitive judgements about problems and their solutions after Aha! moment. Frontiers in
psychology. 13:911904. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.911904.

Ammalainen, A. & Moroshkina, N. (2020) The effect of true and false unreportable hints on anagram
problem solving, restructuring, and the Aha!-experience. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 33, 6–7,
644–658. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2020.1844722

Ammalainen, A.V. & Moroshkina, N.V. (2019) When an error leads to confidence: false insight and feeling
of knowing in anagram solving. Psychology. Journal of the Higher School of Economics. 16 (4), 774–783.
DOI: 10.17323/1813-8918-2019-4-774-783

Moroshkina, N.V. & Ammalainen, A.V. (2021) From insight to Aha! experience: a new paradigm in the
research of insight problem solving. Sibirskiy Psihologicheskiy Zhurnal [Siberian psychological journal], 79,
48-73. DOI: 10.17223/17267080/79/4 (in Russian)

Moroshkina, N.V., Ammalainen, A.V., Savina, A.I. (2020) Catching up with insight: modern approaches and
methods of measuring insight in cognitive psychology. Psihologicheskie issledovaniya [Psychological
studies], 74(13). (in Russian)

Tikhonov, R. V., Ammalainen, A. V., & Moroshkina, N. V. (2018). The variety of metacognitive feelings:
Different phenomena or different terms? Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology and Education,
8(3), 214–242. doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu16.2018.302 (in Russian).

Spiridonov, V.F., Loginov N.I., Ammalainen A.V., Vyazovkina V.K., Ardislamov V.V., Anufriev G.V. (2021)
Mental models in action: The difference of consistent responses is less than inconsistent. Cognitive
science in Moscow: New research, 406-410 (Moscow, 2021) (peer-reviewed conference paper in Russian).

Loginov, N.I., Spiridonov, V.F., Kurbanov K.A., Ardislamov V.V., Ammalainen, A.V., Vyazovkina, V.K. (2021)
The long-term individual differences in preferences of mental VS embodied problem solving. Cognitive
science in Moscow: New research, 255-260 (Moscow, 2021) (peer-reviewed conference paper in Russian).

Ammalainen, A.V., Moroshkina, N.V. The effect of unreportable hints on cognitive and affective
components of insight in anagrams solving (2021). Cognitive psychology: Lower- and higher-level
processing, 7-11 (Yaroslavl, 2021) (peer-reviewed conference paper in Russian).