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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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New chapter by García-Madruga et al. on deductive reasoning and executive function October 23, 2019
Wang and Thompson explore meta-cognitive judgments and models October 12, 2019
How knowledge makes disjunctions “analytically” true or false October 2, 2019
Paper addresses the language acquisition process from the mental models theory September 2, 2019
Byrne gave keynote on counterfactuals at IJCAI-19’s Workshop on Explainable AI August 23, 2019
Ragni’s course at the South-East Asian Summer School on Computational Logic in Ulaanbaatar August 22, 2019
Eyetracking results show how people comprehend counterfactual conditionals August 20, 2019
People make systematic errors when reasoning about durations August 1, 2019
A stochastic algorithm for causal reasoning July 22, 2019

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