👋🏽 Branden Bio starts his postdoc at NRL!
I’m extremely excited that Branden Bio began his postdoc at NRL this week! Dr. Bio is coming from Princeton’s Psychology Department, where he worked on studying attention, awareness, and its...
View Article🎉 Congrats to Reasoning Lab alumni Hillary Harner and Laura Kelly!
Hillary Harner and Laura Kelly successfully completed their NRC Postdoctoral Fellowships this Fall — congratulations to them both! Throughout their years at NRL, Laura and Hillary made some important...
View Article📄 New paper on recursion out in PBR
Phil Johnson-Laird, along with his collaborators Monica Bucciarelli, Robert Mackiewicz, and myself, published a paper in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review that reviewed research into how humans...
View Article💬 Interview with Künstliche Intelligenze
I was recently interviewed by Nina Bonderup Dohn and Marco Ragni at KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, a German journal of artificial intelligence. You can check out that interview here.
View Article📄 Cognitive Science paper on reasoning about desires
Hillary Harner and I have a new theoretical paper out in Cognitive Science on the processes and mental representations people rely on to reason about desire. The paper shows that people think of...
View Article📄 Now in Psych Review: Computational model of 200+ reasoning problems
Phil Johnson-Laird and I have a new paper the describes a theory and computational model of how people reason about properties. The theory holds that people construct small-scale mental simulations of...
View ArticleJEP: General paper on temporal explanations
It may require some effortful thinking and some background knowledge to construct a plausible explanation from scratch, so you need a good reason to do so. One of the most important reasons for why...
View ArticleResearch on mental state reasoning published at CogSci 2023
Branden Bio and I recently published two papers at CogSci 2023 that focus on how people reason about mental states. The papers focus on two patterns we recently discovered: people’s online and offline...
View ArticlePNAS paper on truth values outside logic
Phil Johnson-Laird, Ruth Byrne and I recently published a paper in PNAS on how people base their verifications of assertions (such as Tom visited Florida or Wyoming) on non-logical truth values: while...
View ArticleNew feature in The Reasoner on the Handbook of Rationality
I recently wrote a feature for The Reasoner (edited by Hykel Hosni) that described the introductory chapter of The Handbook of Rationality (MIT Press). Both the feature (http://www.thereasoner.org/)...
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