Latest results: Roca, Castro, Bueno, & Moreno-Ríos 2012
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted September 27, 2012
Javier Roca, Cándida Castro, Mercedes Bueno and Sergio Moreno-Ríos have discovered that drivers construct different mental models of the events and objects that surround them as they interact with the road environment when they make inferences based...
Read MoreTheory of how reasoners estimate probabilities of unique events in press
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted September 26, 2012
PLOS ONE will publish a new model-based theory of how reasoners make estimates of unique probabilities, e.g., the probability that Obama will win the 2012 election.
Read MoreLatest results: Juhos, Quelhas & Johnson-Laird 2012
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted September 6, 2012
Csongor Juhos, Cristina Quelhas , and Phil Johnson-Laird have discovered that the inferences people make reflect their assumptions about whether the conclusion pertains to past, present or future events. They report their results in the article ‘Temporal...
Read MoreLatest results: Khemlani & Johnson-Laird 2012
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted August 7, 2012
Sangeet Khemlani and Phil Johnson-Laird have discovered that when people create explanations for logical inconsistencies, they subsequently fail to detect them. They report their results in ‘Hidden conflicts: Explanations make inconsistencies harder to detect’ (Acta Psychologica, 2012, ...
Read MoreMental models website: Updated!
- by Ruth Byrne
- in News
- posted August 2, 2012
The information in this blog originates from the Mental Models Website developed initially in the late 1990’s. It aims to provide an introduction to the psychological theory that people reason by constructing mental models. It also contains...
Read MoreMental models symposia at the International Conference on Thinking
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 2, 2012
Ruth Byrne organized two symposia on mental models at the International Conference on Thinking, London, July 2012.
Read MoreMental models special issue of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted July 2, 2012
Monica Bucciarelli, Amelia Gangemi, and Walter Schaeken, are editing a special issue of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology on mental models and cognitive change, which will be published in 2013.
Read MoreLotstein to leave the lab for Freiburg
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted February 14, 2012
Congratulations to Max Lotstein! Max will finish his tenure at the MMR Lab and leave for the University of Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany on April 28th, 2012. There he’ll work with Marco Ragni in the Human Reasoning...
Read MoreProf. Madruga visiting the MMR Lab
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted September 16, 2011
Professor Juan García Madruga of UNED Madrid is visiting the lab for the month of November.
Read MoreGubbins to visit the MMR Lab
- by Sunny Khemlani
- in News
- posted August 27, 2011
Eoin Gubbins, a graduate student with Professor Ruth Byrne (Trinity College, University of Dublin) is visiting the lab (from October 6th until November 19th) to research moral reasoning.
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