Latest results: Brambilla, Sacchi, Rusconi, Cherubini & Yzerbyt 2012
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted March 25, 2013
Marco Brambilla, Simona Sacchi, Patrice Rusconi, Paolo Cherubini & Vincent Yzerbyt have found that our impressions of others are based more strongly on information about their morality than on information about their sociability or competence. Their results...
Read MoreSet membership talk at the London Reasoning Workshop
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted March 14, 2013
I will be talking at the London Reasoning Workshop on my work with Phil and Max Lotstein that concerns new studies and the computational modeling of set membership inferences. The talk is titled, “The psychology of set membership”, and...
Read More‘The probabilities of unique events’ now out in PLOS ONE
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted March 14, 2013
Our paper describing a new theory of how people estimate the probabilities of unique events, e.g., the probability that Hillary Clinton will run for President in 2016, has been published in PLOS ONE.
Read MorePhil to talk at the London Reasoning Workshop
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted March 13, 2013
Phil will give a talk at the London Reasoning Workshop (organized annually by Mike Oaksford) on recent research with Monica Bucciarelli, Robert Mackiewicz, and Sunny Khemlani on mental simulation. His talk is titled, “Simulation in thinking”, and the...
Read MoreNew homepage design
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted March 13, 2013
I just refreshed the new homepage to use the same theme that I use on my personal site. It’s based on Andre Gagnon’s Aware theme. One of the things I like about the theme is that its...
Read MoreLatest results: Wolf, Rieger & Knauff 2012
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted March 12, 2013
Ann Wolf, Susann Rieger and Markus Knauff have found that people’s belief in a conditional such as ‘if Chris goes to work then he will take the car’ dropped when it was uttered by an individual with...
Read MoreLatest discovery: Gómez-Veiga, I., García-Madruga, J. A., & Moreno-Ríos, S. 2012
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted February 25, 2013
Isabel Gómez-Veiga, Juan García-Madruga, and Sergio Moreno-Ríos have shown that people think about more possibilities when they understand conditionals based on ‘unless’ compared to conditionals based on ‘if’. Their results are published in the Journal of Cognitive...
Read MoreLatest results: Khemlani, S. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2012)
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted February 10, 2013
Sunny Khemlani, & Phil Johnson-Laird discuss the evidence to support existing theories of syllogisms in their paper ‘Theories of the syllogism: a meta-analysis’ published in 2012 in Psychological Bulletin (138, 3, 427–457). Their abstract summarizes their results:...
Read MoreLatest discovery: Egan & Byrne 2012
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted February 1, 2013
Suzanne Egan and Ruth Byrne have found that people interpret counterfactual threats e.g., ‘if you had hit your brother I would have grounded you’ as threatening for the future, whereas they do not interpret counterfactual promises, e.g.,...
Read More2012 in review
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted January 28, 2013
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,000 views in 2012. If every person...
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