Philip N. Johnson-Laird
Princeton University
294 Papers
3.5K Citations
Philip N. Johnson-Laird is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deductive reasoning & Inference. The author has an hindex of 73, co-authored 285 publications. Previous affiliations of Philip N. Johnson-Laird include University of London & University College London.
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Reasoning, Imagining, and Creating
Philip N. Johnson-Laird
- 01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The authors argue that people are not very good at generating new ideas because they are too logical: their thoughts run only along well-worn rational tracks, and that reasoning is an imaginative process.
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Are Conjunctive Inferences Easier than Disjunctive Inferences? A Comparison of Rules and Models:
TL;DR: The experiments showed that the inferences were equally easy when the participants evaluated given conclusions, but that the conjunctive inferences weren’t easier than the disjunction inferences when participants drew their own conclusions.
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The probability of conditionals
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how naive reasoners evaluate the probability that a conditional assertion is true and the conditional probability that the consequent of the conditional is true given that the antecedent is true.
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Peirce, logic diagrams, and the elementary operations of reasoning
TL;DR: This paper describes Peirce's systems of logic diagrams, focusing on the so-called ''existential'' graphs, which are equivalent to the first-order predicate calculus, and analyses their implications for the nature of mental representations, particularly mental models with which they have many characteristics in common.
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Counterexamples in sentential reasoning
TL;DR: This work reported three experiments in which the strategies that individuals use to refute invalid inferences based on sentential connectives were examined, and it showed that participants used counterexamples more often than any other strategy.