New 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...
Read MoreLatest results: Reverberi, Pischedda, Burigo & Cherubini, 2012
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted November 23, 2012
Carlo Reverberi, Doris Pischedda, Michele Burigo, and Paolo Cherubini have discovered that when people are given information such as, ‘If there is a 3 then there is an 8. There is a 3’ they make the simple modus ponens inference ‘therefore there is an 8’...
Read MoreLatest results: Orenes & Johnson-Laird 2012
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted October 29, 2012
Isabel Orenes and Phil Johnson-Laird have discovered that people do not tend to accept ‘paradoxical’ inferences. Their experiments examined the ‘paradoxes of material implication’ such as the inference ‘Lucia didn’t wear the shoes. Therefore, If Lucia wore...
Read MoreLatest results: Ferrante, Girotto, Straga & Walsh 2012
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted October 10, 2012
Donatella Ferrante, Vittorio Girotto, Marta Stragà, and Clare Walsh have discovered that people focus on different aspects of an event when they imagine the way it could turn out differently in the future, compared to when they...
Read MorePhil Johnson-Laird becomes Professor Emeritus
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted October 9, 2012
Phil Johnson-Laird retired on July 1st and assumed an Emeritus position. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Psychology at New York University.
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