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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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Recent Posts

Groundbreaking study in Science Advances on how spatial education improves relational reasoning August 14, 2022
Orenes et al. on eyetracking causal and counterfactual negation July 10, 2022
What it means to “want” something: A model-based theory June 10, 2022
Beyond syllogisms: new computational theory in Psych Review on how people reason about properties May 2, 2022
Ruth Byrne awarded the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal April 4, 2022
Poetry, emotions, and mental models February 15, 2022
“Simulation” theory of abstract art February 14, 2022
Recursion in programs, thought, and language December 21, 2021
M&C paper on negating counterfactual and semifactual conditionals November 21, 2021

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