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Mary Parkinson has published several experiments from her PhD research in: Parkinson, M. & Byrne, R.M.J. (2017). Moral judgments of risky choices: a moral echoing effect. Judgment & Decision Making, 12, 3, 236-252. The abstract is as follows: “Two experiments … Continue reading →

Mary Parkinson has published some of the experiments from her PhD: Parkinson, M., & Byrne, R. M. (2017). Judgments of Moral Responsibility and Wrongness for Intentional and Accidental Harm and Purity Violations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, in press. The … Continue reading →

Marta Couto has published some of the experiments she carried out for her PhD: Couto, M., Quelhas, A. C., & Byrne, R. M. (2017). Advice conditionals about tips and warnings: interpretations and inferences. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, in press. The … Continue reading →

Lunch in the Dining Hall in Trinity after Orlando Espino’s talk,  from left: Orlando Espino (La Laguna University, Tenerife, Spain), Shane Timmons (Trinity), Isabel Orenes (UNED, Madrid, Spain), David Beltran (La Laguna University, Tenerife, Spain), Evie Alkin (Trinity), Madhav Bhargav … Continue reading →

Patricia Ganea, Daphna Buchsbaum, and Angela Nyhout organised a wonderful workshop at the University of Toronto on November 4th and 5th 2016.  The line-up for both days contained a fantastic set of talks about counterfactuals from many different perspectives within … Continue reading →

Fiora Sallis organised a very interesting workshop on the scientific imagination and epistemic representations at the London School of Economics on 28th October 2016. The program brought together philosophers and psychologists for a set of stimulating and detailed discussions: Programme … Continue reading →

International Conference on Thinking Members of the lab gave talks at the International Conference on Thinking at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in August. Shane Timmons gave a talk (Timmons & Byrne) on ‘Cognitive fatigue and moral reasoning’. Sabrina … Continue reading →

The summer school in cognitive sciences at the University of Quebec at Montreal organised by Serge Robert, began with a session on reasoning chaired by Henry Markovits and featuring talks by Ruth Byrne, Geoff Goodwin, Henry Markvits, David Over and … Continue reading →

Shane Timmons, Raluca Briazu, Alessandra Tasso, and Ruth Byrne attended the meeting on Counterfactual Thinking in Causality, Emotion, Communication, and Behaviour sponsored by the European Association for Social Psychology. It was held in Aix en Provence, France, at La Baume … Continue reading →

The Center for Logic, Language and Cognition at the University of Turin, Italy hosted an invited talk by Ruth Byrne on ‘How people think about counterfactual possibilities’ on April 21st 2016.