New paper on negation and counterfactual reasoning out in Current Psychology
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted October 23, 2021
Jesica Gómez-Sánchez and her colleagues Sergio Moreno-Ríos and Caren Frosch recently published a new paper in Current Psychology on how counterfactual reasoning interacts with thinking about negation. They find that both children and adults construct counterfactuals that serve as...
Read MoreReasoning with counterintuitive and arbitrary conditionals
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted September 29, 2021
In recent years, arbitrary conditionals such as, “If a person goes shopping, then that person gets pimples”, have challenged many existing accounts of conditional reasoning. Estefania Gazzo Castañeda and Markus Knauff recently published new data shedding light...
Read MoreIsabel Orenes on perceiving negations
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted September 25, 2021
Isabel Orenes published a new paper in the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research on how people perceive negative sentences. She reports on eye-tracking data that suggest that people have an easier time processing symbolic representations rather than iconic simulations....
Read MoreChapter on rational deductions in the Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 31, 2021
Phil Johnson-Laird released a new chapter coming out in the Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality on the model theory and how it establishes principles of rationality. Here is an excerpt from the chapter: Can naïve individuals – those who...
Read MorePaper on free choice permissions, paradoxes, and disjunctive reasoning now out in JCP
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 31, 2021
Phil Johnson-Laird, Cristina Quelas, and Celia Rasga publised a paper in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology titled “The mental model theory of free choice permissions and paradoxical disjunctive inferences”. The paper addresses paradoxes of free choice, as in: You can...
Read MoreNew paper on counterfactual thoughts about cooperation in social dilemmas
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 19, 2021
Stefania Pighin, Ruth Byrne, and Katya Tentori published a new paper in Thinking & Reasoning about how people think about how things could have turned out differently after deciding to cooperate or not in social games. Their paper is...
Read MoreLópez-Astorga et al. review the probability of conditionals in PBR
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 1, 2021
Miguel López-Astorga, Marco Ragni, and Phil Johnson-Laird present a new review on the probability of conditionals in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: their analysis focuses on the psychological plausibility of the proposal that the probability of expressions such as if...
Read MoreMental models symposia at the International Conference on Thinking 2021
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in Events
- posted June 21, 2021
At the International Conference on Thinking, we’ve organized two symposia on mental models in thinking and reasoning. The conference includes presentations by: Gordon Briggs Monica Bucciarelli Ruth Byrne Hillary Harner Philipp Koralus Robert Mackiewicz Isabel Orenes Marco...
Read MoreStrategies in social reasoning and on disconfirming belief in false claims
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted June 8, 2021
A pair of new papers from Henry Markovits’ laboratory at UQAM focus on reasoning strategies in everyday social contexts. In a new paper in JEP:G, Émile Gagnon-St-Pierre and colleagues show how individual differences in the ability to...
Read MoreOmissive causation and the model theory
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted February 21, 2021
My colleagues and I recently published a paper in Frontiers in Psychology on “omissive causation”, i.e., causation that concerns non-events, as in, not charging your cellphone caused its battery to die. We tested the predictions of the model theory against...
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