Members of the lab gave several talks at the International Thinking Conference in Milan in June 2024. Xinyue Dai gave a talk at the conference titled  “A controllability bias in causal explanation” co-authored with Mark Keane, Laurence Shalloo, Elodie Ruelle and Ruth Byrne.

With Kai Epstude from Groningen, Ruth Byrne co-organised a symposium at the conference on “Everyday applications of counterfactual thinking”. It included talks by Patrizia Catellani and Mauro Bertolotti on pre-bunking fake news;   Kai Epstude, Daniel Effron, and Neal Roese on partisanship; Rachel Smallman and Sherecce Fields on health decisions; and Paul Henne on causation. Ruth gave a talk in the symposium on “Counterfactual explanations for human and AI risky decisions”, co-authored with Xinyue Dai, Laurence Shalloo, Elodie Ruelle, Mark Keane.

With Sunny Khemlani from Washington, Ruth also co-organised a symposium at the conference on “What are explanations for?”. It included talks by Jeff Zemla and Daniel Corral on mechanistic thinking; Laura Kelly and Sunny on temporal explanations; and Emily Liquin, Frederick Callaway and Tania Lombrozo on curiosity.  Ruth gave a talk in the symposium on “Preferences for simple explanations in diagnosis and prediction” co-authored with Greta Warren and Mark Keane.

Sunny also gave a talk a the conference titled “Human verifications: Computable with truth values outside logic” co-authored with Phil Johnson-Laird and Ruth Byrne.