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Reasoning about time

Freiburg Geissen Leuven NRL NYU Princeton

Spatial reasoning

Freiburg Geissen NRL NYU Princeton SWPS Trinity

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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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