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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

Munroe on reasoning, rationality, and representation May 1, 2020
Suppressing inferences with counterfactual conditionals April 30, 2020
Proving the consistency of the model theory April 30, 2020
New paper about some possible relations between Cognitive Linguistics and the theory of mental models March 18, 2020
Children with reading difficulties make systematic errors in transitive reasoning February 27, 2020
Bibliometric analysis of mental models research in Cognitive Processing February 24, 2020
Wertheim and Ragni’s meta-analysis of neurocognitive mechanisms of reasoning January 22, 2020
Bucciarelli and commenters discuss reasoning in the Italian Journal of Psychology December 27, 2019
Researchers at Ecole Normale Supérieure investigate new fallacies with “might” November 15, 2019

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