Latest news: The Development of Thinking
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted June 13, 2013
Pierre Barrouillet and Caroline Gauffroy have edited a book ‘The Development of Thinking and Reasoning’ (2013, Routledge) which is described as follows: “The first part of the book illustrates how modern approaches to the study of thinking...
Read MoreLatest discovery: Vergauwe, E., Gauffroy, C., Morsanyi, K., Dagry I., & Barrouillet, P. (2013).
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted April 29, 2013
Evie Vergauwe, Caroline Gauffroy, Kinga Morsanyi, Isabelle Dagry and Pierre Barrouillet have discovered that when people think about a conditional such as, ‘if the circle is red then the star is yellow’, they take a long time...
Read MoreCongratulations to Professor Koralus!
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted April 18, 2013
Philipp Koralus has accepted the position on the faculty at Oxford University. He will be the Fulford Clarendon University Lecturer and Fulford Tutorial Fellow at St. Catherine’s College. We wish him many congratulations and best of luck on...
Read MoreTheory of reverse engineering now out in JCP
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted April 9, 2013
Louis Lee and Phil’s paper on a new theory of reverse engineering is now published in the latest issue of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
Read MoreLatest news
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted April 4, 2013
Monica Bucciarelli, Amelia Gangemi and Walter Schaeken are the guest editors of a special issue of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology (2013, volume 25, issue 2) on ‘Mental models in cognitive change’. In the introductory article to...
Read MoreSpecial issue of JCP on mental models in cognitive change now out
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted March 26, 2013
The latest issue of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology is out, and it is a special issue on “Mental Models in Cognitive Change”. Abstracts from three contributions of the lab are available below.
Read MoreLatest 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...
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