The truth of conditionals
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted September 11, 2018
Geoff Goodwin and Phil Johnson-Laird describe new work on resolving a long-standing controversy about “conditional” assertions. You can read the paper here. Here’s the abstract: Given a basic conditional of the form, If A then C, individuals usually...
Read More50 years of the selection task
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 18, 2018
Marco Ragni, Ilir Kola, and Phil Johnson-Laird have just published a meta-analysis of 50 years of research into the selection task, a paradigm invented to test how reasoners select evidence to test hypotheses. Download the paper here,...
Read MoreFactual and counterfactual conditionals
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 14, 2018
A new paper by Cristina Quelhas, Célia Rasga, and Phil Johnson-Laird describes the relation between factual conditionals and counterfactual conditionals.
Read MorePeople become more logical without feedback
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted June 19, 2018
Most theories of reasoning assume that human reasoning ability is stable over time, but few studies have investigated the matter. We analyzed a study in which 20 participants drew their own conclusions to the 64 sorts of...
Read MoreHuman reasoning violates all normal modal logics
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted June 13, 2018
Marco Ragni and Phil Johnson-Laird have a new paper in CogSci 2018 that shows how human reasoning violates all orthodox systems of modal logic. You can read the paper here.
Read MoreThe interpretation of disjunctions depends on the contents of its clauses
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted January 10, 2017
Christina Quelhas and Phil Johnson-Laird published a recent paper in QJEP on how disjunctive assertions are modulated by the contents of their clauses. You can read the paper here, and the abstract is below.
Read MoreObituary for Vittorio Girotto in T&R
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 21, 2016
Paulo Legrenzi and Phil Johnson-Laird wrote an obituary for their close friend and colleague, Vittorio Girotto. The obituary will be published in Thinking & Reasoning soon, but we have included a preprint here for those interested.
Read MoreCongrats to Professor Mascarenhas!
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 1, 2016
Congratulations to Salvador Mascarenhas, who will be joining the faculty of Ecole Normale Superieure as an Assistant Professor this fall!
Read MoreVittorio Girotto (1957-2016)
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted May 12, 2016
Vittorio Girotto passed away on Saturday, April 23rd, 2016. He was a close collaborator with many members of the lab, and he will be missed.
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Mental Models and Reasoning Symposium at ICT 2016
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in Events
- posted April 13, 2016
A symposium highlighting recent research on mental models and reasoning will be held at the International Conference on Thinking 2016, at Brown University. Speakers at the symposium include: Sangeet Khemlani and Phil Johnson-Laird Markus Knauff Ruth Byrne...
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