Ruth M. J. Byrne
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- PhD Psychology National University of Ireland
- Bachelors Psychology National University of Ireland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ruth M.J. Byrne, FTCD, MRIA, is an Irish cognitive scientist and author of several books on human reasoning. She is the Professor of Cognitive Science, in the School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin. She is the former Vice Provost of Trinity College Dublin.
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Published Works
- Human Reasoning: The Psychology Of Deduction (1993) (795)
- Suppressing valid inferences with conditionals (1989) (478)
- Précis of The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality (2007) (462)
- Propositional reasoning by model. (1992) (438)
- Conditionals: A Theory of Meaning, Pragmatics, and Inference (2002) (393)
- Conditionals: a theory of meaning, pragmatics, and inference. (2002) (381)
- Counterfactual Thought. (2016) (240)
- Mental models and counterfactual thoughts about what might have been (2002) (224)
- Counterfactuals in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Evidence from Human Reasoning (2019) (184)
- ‘If’ and the problems of conditional reasoning (2009) (171)
- Reasoning by model: The case of multiple quantification. (1989) (156)
- Deductive reasoning with factual, possible, and counterfactual conditionals (1999) (116)
- Reasoning counterfactually: making inferences about things that didn't happen. (2002) (113)
- Counterfactual thinking about controllable events (2000) (112)
- Counterexamples and the Suppression of Inferences (1999) (107)
- Counterfactual thinking about actions and failures to act. (2000) (101)
- Cognitive Processes in Counterfactual Thinking about what Might Have Been (1997) (88)
- Facts and Possibilities: A Model-Based Theory of Sentential Reasoning (2018) (81)
- Modal reasoning, models, and Manktelow and Over (1992) (80)
- Counterfactual and semifactual conditionals prime alternative possibilities. (2005) (80)
- Meta-logical problems: Knights, knaves, and rips (1990) (78)
- Can valid inferences be suppressed? (1991) (77)
- Précis of Deduction (1993) (75)
- The Spontaneous Use of Propositional Connectives (1992) (74)
- The temporality effect in counterfactual thinking about what might have been (2000) (72)
- Semifactual “even if” thinking (2002) (70)
- Spontaneous counterfactual thoughts and causal explanations (2006) (70)
- Why models rather than rules give a better account of propositional reasoning: A reply to Bonatti and to O'Brien, Braine, and Yang (1994) (65)
- Reasoning strategies for suppositional deductions (1997) (47)
- Counterfactual and prefactual conditionals. (2004) (44)
- In Defense of Reasoning: A Reply to Greene (1992) (1992) (42)
- Reasoning with deontic and counterfactual conditionals (2003) (40)
- Causal conditionals and counterfactuals (2012) (39)
- Counterfactual thinking: The temporal order effect (2004) (38)
- Attention and Working Memory in Insight Problem-Solving (2005) (37)
- The Mental Model Theory of Conditionals: A Reply to Guy Politzer (2009) (34)
- If and or: Real and counterfactual possibilities in their truth and probability. (2019) (33)
- Counterfactual Thinking: From Logic to Morality (2017) (33)
- How people think “if only …” about reasons for actions (2007) (33)
- Counterfactual thoughts about experienced, observed, and narrated events (2011) (33)
- A model point of view (1995) (27)
- Short article: People think about what is true for conditionals, not what is false: Only true possibilities prime the comprehension of “if” (2009) (27)
- Temporal and causal order effects in thinking about what might have been (2002) (27)
- Moral fatigue: The effects of cognitive fatigue on moral reasoning (2018) (27)
- Reasoning from Suppositions (1995) (26)
- “If only” counterfactual thoughts about exceptional actions (2011) (25)
- Models and deductive rationality. (1993) (25)
- Inferences from semifactual 'even if' conditionals. (2008) (25)
- Dual processes of emotion and reason in judgments about moral dilemmas (2014) (24)
- The consistency of disjunctive assertions (2012) (22)
- When Falsification is the Only Path to Truth (2005) (22)
- Everyday Reasoning with Conditional Sequences (1989) (22)
- Reasoning about intentions: counterexamples to reasons for actions. (2015) (20)
- Cognitive change in insight problem solving: Initial model errors and counterexamples (2013) (20)
- Inferences from counterfactual threats and promises. (2012) (19)
- Thinking About the Opposite of What Is Said: Counterfactual Conditionals and Symbolic or Alternate Simulations of Negation (2018) (18)
- Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making in Autism (2019) (18)
- Mental models or formal rules (1993) (16)
- It is not the case that if you understand a conditional you know how to negate it (2012) (16)
- Indicative and counterfactual 'only if' conditionals. (2009) (15)
- Cognitive Processes in Counterfactual Thinking (2008) (14)
- Judgments of moral responsibility and wrongness for intentional and accidental harm and purity violations (2017) (14)
- Conditionals and possibilities (2010) (13)
- The compatibility heuristic in non-categorical hypothetical reasoning: Inferences between conditionals and disjunctions (2013) (13)
- Understanding cumulative risk (2010) (13)
- RESOLVING CONTRADICTIONS by (2006) (12)
- Children’s reasoning about other’s intentions: False-belief and counterfactual conditional inferences (2016) (12)
- Models, necessity, and the search for counterexamples (1994) (11)
- Counterfactual and semi-factual thoughts in moral judgements about failed attempts to harm (2017) (11)
- Models Rule, OK? A Reply to Fetzer (1999) (10)
- The effects of reasons for acting on counterfactual thinking (2007) (10)
- Features of Explainability: How users understand counterfactual and causal explanations for categorical and continuous features in XAI (2022) (10)
- Mental models and syllogisms (1996) (9)
- Moral hindsight for good actions and the effects of imagined alternatives to reality (2018) (9)
- The Temporal Order Effect in Children's Counterfactual Thinking (2005) (9)
- Contradictions and Counterfactuals: Generating Belief Revisions in Conditional Inference (2019) (8)
- Chess Masters' Hypothesis Testing (2004) (8)
- The Comprehension of Counterfactual Conditionals: Evidence From Eye-Tracking in the Visual World Paradigm (2019) (8)
- Possibilities and the parallel meanings of factual and counterfactual conditionals (2020) (7)
- Temporal and causal order effects in counterfactual thinking (2000) (7)
- Advances in the psychology of reasoning: meta-deduction (1992) (7)
- The Suppression of Inferences From Counterfactual Conditionals (2020) (7)
- Moral judgments of risky choices: A moral echoing effect (2017) (6)
- Prepositional Reasoning by Model (2004) (6)
- Why Models Rather Than Rules Give a Better Account of Prepositional Reasoning : A Reply to Bonatti and to O ' Brien , (1995) (6)
- Corrigendum: ‘If’ and the problems of conditional reasoning [Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13 (2009), 282–287] (2009) (5)
- Spatial Mental Models in Counterfactual Thinking About What Might Have Been (1998) (5)
- Counterfactual Explanations for Prediction and Diagnosis in XAI (2022) (5)
- Similarities and differences in understanding negative and affirmative counterfactuals and causal assertions: Evidence from eye-tracking (2021) (5)
- The Construction of Explanations (1991) (5)
- A Computational Model of Counterfactual Thinkin: The Temporal Order Effect (2001) (5)
- Inferences from disclosures about the truth and falsity of expert testimony (2018) (5)
- Counterfactual Reasoning: Inferences from Hypothetical Conditionals (2019) (4)
- Who is Telling the Truth…… Cognitive Processes in Meta-Deductive Reasoning (1993) (4)
- Models redux: Response to Evans and Over (2010) (4)
- The contextual nature of conditional reasoning (1986) (4)
- How Children with Autism Reason about Other’s Intentions: False-Belief and Counterfactual Inferences (2017) (4)
- The rational imagination and other possibilities (2007) (4)
- Mental models and pragmatics (2000) (3)
- Counterfactual and Causal Thoughts about Exceptional Events (2011) (3)
- Imagined alternatives to episodic memories of morally good acts (2021) (3)
- How people keep track of what is real and what is imagined: The epistemic status of counterfactual alternatives to reality. (2020) (3)
- Priming Causal Conditionals (2006) (3)
- Counterfactual conditionals: reasoning latencies (2000) (3)
- Cognitive processes in imaginative moral shifts: How judgments of morally unacceptable actions change (2022) (2)
- The Nature and Development of Reasoning Strategies (1993) (2)
- Switching attention incurs a cost for counterfactual conditional inferences (2012) (2)
- Intentionality and choice (2013) (2)
- Counterfactual reasoning and imagination (2017) (2)
- Advice conditionals about tips and warnings: interpretations and inferences (2017) (2)
- Commentary on: Précis of deduction. Authors' reply (1994) (2)
- How people reason with counterfactual and causal explanations for Artificial Intelligence decisions in familiar and unfamiliar domains. (2023) (1)
- The Counterfactual Imagination: The Impact of Alternatives to Reality on Morality (2020) (1)
- Imagination and rationality (2016) (1)
- Categorical and Continuous Features in Counterfactual Explanations of AI Systems (2023) (1)
- Relational Inferences (2019) (1)
- Imagination is only as rational as the purpose to which it is put (2007) (1)
- Human Deductive Reasoning (1989) (1)
- Paraphrases of Counterfactual and Causal Conditionals (2005) (1)
- “If only” counterfactual thoughts about cooperative and uncooperative decisions in social dilemmas (2021) (1)
- Counterfactual Promises and Threats (2006) (1)
- Consistency in Degrees of Morality (2013) (0)
- Parkinson, M. & Byrne, R.M.J. (2017). Moral judgments of risky choices: a moral echoing effect. Judgment & Decision Making, 12, 3, 236-252. (2019) (0)
- Human Reasoning (2019) (0)
- Byrne, R.M.J. & Timmons, S. (2018). Moral hindsight for good actions and the effects of imagined alternatives to reality. Cognition. 178, 82-91 (2019) (0)
- How Children with Autism Reason about Other’s Intentions: False-Belief and Counterfactual Inferences (2017) (0)
- Author ’ s Response The Popperian framework , statistical significance , and rejection of chance (2000) (0)
- Cognitive processes in imaginative moral shifts: How judgments of morally unacceptable actions change (2022) (0)
- Tracking the temporal course of counterfactual understanding (2017) (0)
- Counterfactual thoughts and judgments about morally good actions (2017) (0)
- Possibilities and the parallel meanings of factual and counterfactual conditionals (2020) (0)
- Syllogistic Reasoning (2019) (0)
- Theories of Conditional Reasoning: Rules Versus Models (2019) (0)
- Overview and Conclusions (2019) (0)
- Espino, O. & Byrne, R.M.J. (2013). The Compatibility Heuristic in Non-Categorical Hypothetical Reasoning. Cognitive Psychology. 67, 3, 98-129. DATA ARCHIVE (2018) (0)
- Celebrating fifty years of psychology at trinity college Dublin (2012) (0)
- The Psychology of Counterfactual Conditionals (1999) (0)
- Conditional Reasoning (2019) (0)
- Thinking about What Might Have Been: If Only, Even If, Causality and Emotions (2020) (0)
- Orenes, I., Garcia-Madruga, J.A., Gomez-Veiga, I., Espino, O. & Byrne, R.M.J. (2019). The comprehension of counterfactual conditionals: evidence from eye-tracking in the visual world paradigm. DATA ARCHIVE (2019) (0)
- How People Think About Possibilities (2023) (0)
- If Only I Had Acted Differently: Reasons and Actions in Counterfactual Thinking (2019) (0)
- The Wason Selection Task (2016) (0)
- Hypothesis quality and testing strategies in the 2-4-6 task (2003) (0)
- Counterfactual 'if only' conditionals (2009) (0)
- The consistency of disjunctive assertions (2012) (0)
- Reasoning with Quantifiers: Beyond Syllogisms (2019) (0)
- Chess Masters' Hypothesis Testing (Presentation Slides) (2019) (0)
- Counterfactual ‘only if ’ conditionals (2003) (0)
- Counterfactual and false-belief reasoning in individuals with autism (2019) (0)
- Disjunctive Reasoning (2019) (0)
- Timmons, S. & Byrne, R.M.J. (2018). Moral Fatigue: The Effects of Cognitive Fatigue on Moral Reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. (2019) (0)
- 2011 Indexes (2011) (0)
- The coming of age of the psychology of thinking and reasoning (2013) (0)
- Counterfactual thinking and causal reasoning (2000) (0)
- How do individuals with autism think? (2019) (0)
- ‘If only’ counterfactuals and the exceptionality effect (2009) (0)
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