Jean Francois Bonnefon

..The authors' findings illustrate a form of social rationality common in everyday interaction, which broadens normative conceptions of conditionals...

..In line with the target article, we expect that this dilemma will be solved by a fixed individual strategy rather than a case-by-case rational calculation...

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..Thus, an adequate account of utility-informed inferences conditional reasoning requires three components: utility, probability, and causal structure...

..The current balance between normativism and descriptivism is illustrated by three approaches to reasoning about decisions...

..The theory of utility conditionals significantly extends the scope of current theories of conditional inference and moves reasoning research toward a greater integration with decision-making research...

..These findings are considered from the perspective of Relevance Theory as well as that of the Generalized Conversational Inference approach...

..The authors discuss how these results can enrich current approaches of conditional inference on the basis of mental models, complementary necessary conditions, and conditional probabilities...

..An analysis of interpretations of probability expressions using a membership-function approach validates this account. We discuss the consequences of this bias for the communication of risk within and outside the medical domain...

..The first experiment manipulated the threat level of a correction through the portrayed personality of the person being corrected; the second experiment manipulated the affective distance between the corrector and the corrected...

..The 1-in-X effect generalizes to different populations, probabilities, and medical conditions. Further-more, the effect is not attenuated by a communicative intervention (verbal analogy), but it disappears with an icon array visual aid...

..Based on a sociolinguistic analysis of the way these uncertainty terms are used, we predicted that they would be interpreted differently by patients as a function of whether they qualified good news or bad news...

..This account receives indirect support from the extant literature and direct support from a mixed Rasch model of responses given to 18 syllogisms by 486 adult reasoners...

..g., assisted suicide) often involve matters of life and death...

..A board game paradigm is developed to allow for a clean, orthogonal manipulation of all variables. The results wholly support the utilitarian relevance approach and offer new perspectives on the face management approach...

..When forming their subjective representation of a probability, pregnant women may focus on inappropriate factors and ignore the appropriate factors...