Mental Models and Reasoning Lab

In Press

• Goodwin, G., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Conceptual illusions.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., The truth about conditionals.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Mental models and language.
• Fumero, A., Santamaría, C., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Formas de pensar: efecto de la personalidad en el razonamiento.
• Girotto, V., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Conditionals and probability.
• Byrne, R.M.J., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Conditionals and possibilities.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Reasoning.

2009

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Deductive reasoning.
• McCloy, R., Byrne, R.M.J., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Understanding cumulative risk.
• Byrne, R.M.J., Johnson-Laird, P.N., ‘If’ and the problems of conditional reasoning.
• Knauff, M., A neuro-cognitive theory of deductive relational reasoning with mental models and visual images.
• Walsh, C., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Changing your mind.
• Khemlani, S., Johnson-Laird, P.N. Disjunctive illusory inferences and how to eliminate them.
• Johnson-Laird, Byrne, R.M.J., Girotto, V. The mental models theory of conditionals.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Reasoning.

2008

• Kroger, J., Nystrom, L., Cohen, J., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Distinct neural substrates for deductive and mathematical processing.
• Goodwin, G.P., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Transitive and pseudo-transitive inferences.
• Bucciarelli, M., Khemlani, S., Johnson-Laird, P.N., The psychology of moral reasoning.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Mental models and deductive reasoning.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Yang, Y., Mental logic, mental models, and computer simulations of human reasoning.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Oatley, K., Emotions, music, and literature.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., How we reason: A view from psychology.
• Khemlani, S., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Illusory inferences about embedded disjunctions.
• Lee, N.Y.L., Goodwin, G.P., Johnson-Laird, P.N., The psychological puzzle of Sudoku

2007

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Goldvarg-Steingold, E. Models of cause and effect.
• Girotto, V., Ferrante, D., Pighin, S., Gonzalez, M., Post-decisional counterfactuals by actors and readers.
• Jahn, G., Knauff, M., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Preferred mental models in reasoning about spatial relations.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Goldvarg-Steingold, E., Models of cause and effect.
• Mancini, F., Gangemi A., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Il ruolo del ragionamento nella Psicopatologia secondo la Hyper Emotion Theory.
• Frosch, C.A., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Cowley, M., It’s not my fault, your Honor, I’m only the enabler.
• Girotto, V., Gonzalez, M., Children’s understanding of posterior probability.
• Khemlani, S., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Thinking about algorithms.

2006

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Models and heterogeneous reasoning.
• Frosch, C.A., Johnson-Laird, P.N., The revision of beliefs about causes and enabling conditions.
• Goodwin, G.P., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Reasoning about the relations between relations.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Mancini, F., Gangemi, A., A hyper-emotion theory of psychological illnesses.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., How we reason.
• Lee, N.Y.L., Goodwin, G.P., Johnson-Laird, P.N., The psychology of Su Doku problems.
• Lee, N.Y.L., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Are there cross-cultural differences in reasoning?.
• Newsome, M.R., Johnson-Laird, P.N., How falsity dispels fallacies.

2005

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Flying bicycles: How the Wright brothers invented the airplane.
• Quelhas, A.C., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Modulaçã semântica no raciocínio condicional.
• Jahn, G., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Knauff, M., Reasoning about consistency with spatial mental models.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., The shape of problems.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Mental models and thought.
• Bucciarelli, M., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Naive deontics: A theory of meaning, representation, and reasoning.
• Goodwin, G.P., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Reasoning about relations.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., The history of mental models.
• Goodwin, G.P., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Diagnosis of ambiguous faults in simple networks.
• Hasson, U., Walsh, C., Johnson-Laird, P.N., What underlies the assessment of conditionals?
• Jahn, G., Knauff, M., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Preferred mental models in spatial reasoning.
• Lee, N.Y.L., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Synthetic reasoning and reverse engineering.
• Legrenzi, P., Johnson-Laird, P.N., The evaluation of diagnostic explanations for inconsistencies.

2004

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Reasoning with mental models.
• Quelhas, A.C., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Conhecimentos, modelos, e raciocínio condicional.
• Girotto, V., Johnson-Laird, P.N., The probability of conditionals.
• Walsh, C., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Co-reference and reasoning.
• Lee, N.Y.L, Johnson-Laird, P.N., Creative strategies in problem solving.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Legrenzi, P., Girotto, V., How we detect logical inconsistencies.
• Cherubini, P., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Does everyone love everyone? The psychology of iterative reasoning.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Girotto, V., Legrenzi, P., Reasoning from inconsistency to consistency.

2003

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Logic and reasoning.
• Haught, C., and Johnson-Laird, P.N., Creativity and constraints: The production of novel sentences.
• Hasson, U., and Johnson-Laird, P.N., Why believability cannot explain belief revision.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Hasson, U., Counterexamples in sentential reasoning.
• Legrenzi, P., Girotto, V., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Models of consistency.
• Knauff, M., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Reasoning and the visual-impedance hypothesis.
• Knauff, M., Fangmeier, T., Ruff, C., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Reasoning, models, and images: Behavioral measures and cortical activity.
• Barres, P., and Johnson-Laird, P.N., On imagining what is true (and what is false).

2002

• Van der Henst, J., Yang, Y., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Strategies in sentential reasoning.
• Knauff, M., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Imagery can impede inference.
• Razonamiento con condicionales multiples
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R., Conditionals: A theory of meaning, pragmatics, and inference.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., How jazz musicians improvise.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Peirce, logic diagrams, and the elementary operations of reasoning.

2001

• Goldvarg, E., Johnson-Laird, P.N. Naive causality: a mental model theory of causal meaning and reasoning.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Mental models and deduction.
• Yang, Y., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Mental models and logical reasoning problems in the GRE.
• Garcia-Madruga, J.A., Moreno, S., Carriedo, N., Guiterrez, F., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Are conjunctive inferences easier than disjunctive inferences? A comparison of rules and models.

2000

• Yang, Y., Johnson-Laird, P.N., How to eliminate illusions in quantified reasoning.
• Santamaria, C., Johnson-Laird, P.N., An antidote to illusory inferences.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Illusions and models: a reply to Barrouillet and Lecas.
• Jonson-Laird, P.N., Legrenzi, P., Legrenzi, M., Illusions in reasoning about consistency.

1999

• Evans, J. St. B., Handley, S., Harper, C., Johnson-Laird, P., Reasoning about necessity and possibility.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Legrenzi, P., Girotto, V., Legrenzi, M., Caverni, J., Naive probability: A mental model theory of extensional reasoning.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., Models rule, OK? A reply to Fetzer.
• Bucciarelli, M., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Strategies in syllogistic reasoning.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Savary, F., Illusory inferences.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Deductive reasoning.

1998

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Imagery, visualization, and thinking.
• Santamaria, C., Garcia-Madruga, J., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Reasoning from double conditionals: The effects of logical structure and believability.
• Schaeken, W., Girotto, V., Johnson-Laird, P.N., The effect of an irrelevant premise on temporal and spatial reasoning.
• Bell, V.A., Johnson-Laird, P.N., A model theory of modal reasoning.

1997

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., An end to the controversy? A reply to Rips.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Rules and illusions: A critical study of Rips’s The Psychology of Proof.

1996

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Savary, F., Illusory inferences about probabilities.
• Schaeken, W., Johnson-Laird, P.N., d’Ydewalle, G., Tense, aspect, and temporal reasoning.
• Schaeken, W., Johnson-Laird, P.N., d’Ydewalle, G., Mental models and temporal reasoning.

1995

• Bara, B., Bucciarelli, M., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Development of syllogistic reasoning.

1994

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Mental models and probabilistic thinking.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., Schaeken, W., Why models rather than rules give a better account of propositional reasoning.

1993

• Bauer, M., Johnson-Laird, P.N., How diagrams can improve reasoning
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Shafir, E., The interaction between reasoning and decision-making: an introduction.
• Legrenzi, P., Girotto, V., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Focussing and reasoning and decision-making.

1992

• Johnson-Laird, P.N, Byrne, R.M.J., Modal reasoning, models, and Manktelow and Over.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., Schaeken, W., Propositional reasoning by model.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., Tabossi, P., In defense of reasoning: A reply to Greene (1992).

1991

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Rhythm and meter: A theory at the computational level.

1990

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., Meta-logical problems: Knights, knaves, and Rips.

1989

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., Tabossi, P., Reasoning by model: The case of multiple quantification.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Byrne, R.M.J., Only reasoning.
• Byrne, R.M.J., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Spatial reasoning.
• Oakhill, J., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Garnham, A., Believability and syllogistic reasoning.

1987

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., The mental representation of the meaning of words.

1986

• Black, A., Freeman, P., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Plausibility and the comprehension of text.

1985

• Oakhill, J., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Rationality, memory, and the search for counterexamples.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Human and computer reasoning.

1984

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Herrman, D.J., Chaffin, R., Only connections: A critique of semantic networks.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Bara, B., Logical expertise as a cause of error: A reply to Boolos.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Bara, B., Syllogistic inference.

1983

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Mental models: Towards a cognitive science of language, inference, and consciousness.

1982

• Ehrlich, K., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Spatial descriptions and referential continuity.
• Mani, K., Johnson-Laird, P.N., The mental representation of spatial descriptions.
• Garnham, A., Oakhill, J., Johnson-Laird, P.N., Referential continuity and the coherence of discourse.

1981

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Cognition, computers, and mental models.

1980

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Garnham, A., Descriptions and discourse models.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Mental models in cognitive science.

1979

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Will there be any neat solutions to small problems in cognitive science?

1978

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., The meaning of modality.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., What’s wrong with Grandma’s guide to procedural semantics: A reply to Jerry Fodor.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Steedman, M., The psychology of syllogisms.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Bethell-Fox, C., Memory for questions and amount of processing.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Gibbs, G., de Mowbray, J., Meaning, amount of processing, and memory for words.

1977

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Procedural semantics.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., The passive paradox: A reply to Costermans and Hupet.
• Wykes, T., Johnson-Laird, P.N., How do children learn the meaning of verbs?

1976

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Quinn, J.G., To define true meaning.

1975

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Models of deduction.

1974

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Robins, C., Velicogna, L. Memory for words.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Experimental psycholinguistics.

1972

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Legrenzi, P., Legrenzi, M., Reasoning and a sense of reality.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Steedman, M., The three-term series problem.

1970

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Wason, P.C., A theoretical analysis of insight into a reasoning task.
• Wason, P.C., Johnson-Laird, P.N., A conflict between selecting and evaluating information in an inferential task.

1969

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., On understanding logically complex sentences.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Tagart, J., How implication is understood.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., Reasoning with ambiguous sentences.

1968

• Johnson-Laird, P.N., The choice of the passive voice in a communication task.
• Johnson-Laird, P.N., The interpretation of passive voice.