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The Mental Models Global Laboratory organizes worldwide research findings on the strengths and frailties of human reasoning. We are a group of professors, scientists, and students who develop theories, run experiments, and write computer programs concerning how people reason in domains such as space, time, and causality.

The idea that guides our research is that people reason about the world by constructing small-scale models of possible situations. Reasoners often base initial conclusions on the first model they consider — and so they make systematic errors. But they can overcome them to reason rationally by considering alternative models. Models explain the speed, the difficulty, the strategies, and the individual differences of human reasoning.

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Reasoning with counterintuitive and arbitrary conditionals September 29, 2021
Isabel Orenes on perceiving negations September 25, 2021
Chapter on rational deductions in the Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality August 31, 2021
Paper on free choice permissions, paradoxes, and disjunctive reasoning now out in JCP August 31, 2021
New paper on counterfactual thoughts about cooperation in social dilemmas August 19, 2021
López-Astorga et al. review the probability of conditionals in PBR July 1, 2021
Mental models symposia at the International Conference on Thinking 2021 June 21, 2021
Strategies in social reasoning and on disconfirming belief in false claims June 8, 2021
Omissive causation and the model theory February 21, 2021

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