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| Jonathan S t B T EvansSummaryAffiliation: University of Plymouth Country: UK Publications
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Background beliefs in Bayesian inferenceJonathan St B T Evans
Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, England
Mem Cognit 30:179-90. 2002..We found that both prior probabilities and diagnostic information significantly influenced judgments, whether supplied by beliefs or by statistical information, but that belief-based information tended to dominate the judgments made...- On the basis of belief in causal and diagnostic conditionalsJonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 60:635-43. 2007..This new finding presents a major challenge for theoretical accounts of the mental processing of conditional statements... - Suppositions, extensionality, and conditionals: a critique of the mental model theory of Johnson-Laird And Byrne (2002)Jonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England
Psychol Rev 112:1040-52. 2005..The Johnson-Laird and Byrne theory is critically examined with respect to its account of basic conditionals, nonbasic conditionals, and counterfactuals... - The heuristic-analytic theory of reasoning: extension and evaluationJonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, England
Psychon Bull Rev 13:378-95. 2006..Evidence for this theory is provided by a review of a wide range of literature on thinking and reasoning... - Dual-processing accounts of reasoning, judgment, and social cognitionJonathan St B T Evans
Center for Thinking and Language, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 59:255-78. 2008.... 
Do people reason on the Wason selection task? A new look at the data of Ball et al. (2003)Jonathan St B T Evans
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 63:434-41. 2010..These findings strongly support a two-stage account in which attention is necessary but not sufficient for card selections. Hence, reasoning does indeed affect participants' choices on this task...- The influence of cognitive ability and instructional set on causal conditional inferenceJonathan St B T Evans
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 63:892-909. 2010..Two different models of belief-based reasoning were found to fit the data according to the kind of instructions and the type of inference under consideration... - Understanding causal conditionals: a study of individual differencesJonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 61:1291-7. 2008..The results are discussed with reference to the suppositional theory of conditionals and our more general account of hypothetical thinking... - When can we say 'if'?Jonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, England, UK
Cognition 108:100-16. 2008..All predictions were strongly confirmed, suggesting that such conditionals may best be asserted when they are of high relevance to the goals of the listener... - Thinking about conditionals: a study of individual differencesJonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England
Mem Cognit 35:1772-84. 2007..The results include several novel findings and post challenges to contemporary psychological theories of conditionals... - Prior belief and polarity in multicue learningJonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and I anguage, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
Q J Exp Psychol A 58:651-65. 2005..The results are discussed with reference to the cognitive processes involved in MCPL and closely related tasks... - Informal reasoning: theory and methodJonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth Devon, UK
Can J Exp Psychol 58:69-74. 2004 - Conditionals and conditional probabilityJonathan S t B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, England
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 29:321-35. 2003..Individual difference analyses showed that half of the participants used conditional probability and that most of the remaining participants used conjunctive probability as the basis of their judgments... - The negated conditional: a litmus test for the suppositional conditional?Simon J Handley
Centre for Thinking and Language, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 32:559-69. 2006..In 4 experiments, the authors compare the contrasting predictions that arise from each of these accounts. The findings are consistent with the suppositional theory but are incongruent with the mental model theory of conditionals... - Conditional reasoning in autism: activation and integration of knowledge and beliefRebecca McKenzie
School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Drakes Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
Dev Psychol 46:391-403. 2010..These findings are discussed with reference to weak central coherence theory and the conditional reasoning literature... - Reasoning under time pressure. A study of causal conditional inferenceJonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, UK
Exp Psychol 56:77-83. 2009..These findings suggest that the belief bias in conditional inference is less open to volitional control than that associated with syllogistic reasoning... - Reasoning is for thinking, not just for arguingJonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
Behav Brain Sci 34:77-8. 2011..However, if it did, the facility became exapted to the function of supporting uniquely human abilities for reflective thinking and consequential decision making... - Belief bias and figural bias in syllogistic reasoningNicola J Morley
Department of Psychology, Fylde College, Lancaster University, UK
Q J Exp Psychol A 57:666-92. 2004..The findings highlight that different task characteristics influence performance dependent upon the nature of task presentation. These findings are discussed in the context of current theories of belief bias in syllogistic reasoning... - Explicit and implicit processes in multicue judgmentJonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England
Mem Cognit 31:608-18. 2003..These findings explain why studies of expert judgment often show only moderate levels of self-insight, since people have only partial access to the processes determining their judgments... - Logic and human reasoning: an assessment of the deduction paradigmJonathan St B T Evans
Centre for Thinking and Language, Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, England
Psychol Bull 128:978-96. 2002..It is suggested that the methods used for studying reasoning be reviewed, especially the instructional context, which necessarily defines pragmatic influences as biases...