Paper 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...
Read MoreHow children and adults keep track of real information when thinking counterfactually
- by Sergio Moreno-Ríos
- in News
- posted December 4, 2020
Researchers at the University of Granada recently published a paper in PLOS ONE on how children and adults keep track of real information when they think about counterfactuals. The authors, who include Jesica Gómez-Sánchez, José Antonio Ruiz-Ballesteros,...
Read MoreEspino and Byrne on counterfactuals, reality monitoring, and imagination
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted November 4, 2020
Orlando Espino and Ruth Byrne published a paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition on how people comprehend counterfactuals such as, “If it had been a good year, there would have been roses.” To...
Read MoreThe model theory explains how people reason about durations
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 29, 2020
A paper by Laura Kelly, myself, and Phil Johnson-Laird is now out in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. It’s part of the journal’s special issue of Mental Models in Time, which was organized by Virginie van Wassenhove. The...
Read MoreNew theory on explanatory completeness
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 1, 2020
Joanna Korman and I recently published a paper in Acta Psychologica that introduces a new model-based theory on how people judge whether one explanation is more complete than another. The paper introduces both the theory as well as five...
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