The Mental Models Global Laboratory
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    • The 2023 Meeting in Honor of Phil Johnson-Laird
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About Us

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

  • Celebrating Phil Johnson-Laird and 40 years of mental models research August 2, 2023
  • How people mentally represent order and equivalence February 14, 2023
  • Motor imagery and engagement favour spatial reasoning December 2, 2022
  • Reasoning as a tool November 12, 2022
  • 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

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