The hot hand phenomenon as a cognitive adaptation to clumped resources

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Obliquity (2010, unknown): “But we do not actually have that thought, and that is not why we remove our hand (Wilke and Barrett 2009).”
Exposing the behavioral gambit: the evolution of learning and decision rules (2013, background): “Many situations will never have been encountered before, but the animal may rely on the same mechanisms for tackling problems with a similar statistical structure (Todd and Gigerenzer 2007; Wilke and Barrett 2009).”
The subtleties of error management (2010, background): “Wilke and Barrett (2009) have suggested that the phenomenon reflects a psychological adaptation for successful foraging.”
Psychological Momentum: Why Success Breeds Success (2014, background): “It has even been suggested that individual competence in detecting streaks serves evolutionary function and helps people to cognitively adapt to the environment (Wilke & Barrett, 2009).”