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Overview

Henry Markovits is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research focuses predominantly on psychology, with an emphasis on decision sciences and cognitive processes. Their work spans a range of subfields including general decision sciences, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research topics broadly cover decision-making and behavioral economics, cognitive science and mapping, child and animal learning development, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, neural and behavioral psychology studies, experimental behavioral economics studies, and evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Henry Markovits include:

  • Reasoning strategies predict use of very fast logical reasoning, 2020, Memory & Cognition
  • Girls exhibit greater empathy than boys following a minor accident, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Reasoning strategy vs cognitive capacity as predictors of individual differences in reasoning performance, 2021, Cognition
  • Reasoning strategies and semantic memory effects in deductive reasoning, 2020, Memory & Cognition
  • Reasoning strategies explain individual differences in social reasoning., 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Frequent collaborators with Markovits include Joyce F. Benenson, Gaëtan Béghin, Valerie A. Thompson, Janie Brisson, and Émilie Gagnon-St-Pierre.

Their research outputs have been frequently published in journals such as

  • Memory & Cognition
  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cognition
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Best Publications

  • Conditionals: A Theory of Meaning, Pragmatics, and Inference

    Philip Johnson-Laird;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • The Development of Conditional Reasoning: A Mental Model Account

    Henry Markovits;Pierre Barrouillet

  • The belief-bias effect in the production and evaluation of logical conclusions.

    Henry Markovits;Guilaine Nantel

  • The development of reasoning with causal conditionals.

    Geneviève Janveau-Brennan;Henry Markovits

  • Conditional reasoning, representation, and level of abstraction

    Henry Markovits;Robert Vachon

  • Social Exclusion: More Important to Human Females Than Males

    Joyce Frances Benenson;Henry Markovits;Brittney Hultgren;Tuyet Nguyen

  • The Development of Conditional Reasoning and the Structure of Semantic Memory

    Henry Markovits;Marie-Léda Fleury;Stéphane Quinn;Michèle Venet

  • Males' Greater Tolerance of Same-Sex Peers

    Joyce Frances Benenson;Joyce Frances Benenson;Henry Markovits;Caitlin Fitzgerald;Diana Geoffroy

  • Conditional reasoning, causality, and the structure of semantic memory: strength of association as a predictive factor for content effects

    Stéphane Quinn;Henry Markovits

  • Reasoning with contrary-to-fact propositions.

    Henry Markovits;Robert Vachon

  • Awareness of the ‘possible’ as a mediator of formal thinking in conditional reasoning problems

    Henry Markovits

  • Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes

    Joyce F. Benenson;Henry Markovits

  • Evidence That Children and Adolescents Have Internal Models of Peer Interactions That Are Gender Differentiated

    Henry Markovits;Joyce Benenson;Eva Dolenszky

  • A mental model analysis of young children's conditional reasoning with meaningful premises

    Henry Markovits

  • The relation between accuracy of self‐perception and cognitive development

    Thérêse Bouffard;Henry Markovits;Carole Vezeau;Martine Boisvert

  • Individual differences in working memory and conditional reasoning with concrete and abstract content

    Henry Markovits;Celine Doyon;Michael Simoneau

  • Reasoning with premises that are not empirically true: evidence for the role of inhibition and retrieval.

    Michael Simoneau;Henry Markovits

  • Reasoning in Young Children: Fantasy and Information Retrieval

    Henry Markovits;Michele Venet;Geneviève Janveau‐Brennan;Nicole Malfait

  • Efficiency of retrieval correlates with “logical” reasoning from causal conditional premises

    Henry Markovits;Stéphane Quinn

  • Understanding Uncertainty with Abstract Conditional Premises

    Michele Venet;Henry Markovits

Frequent Co-Authors

Joyce F. Benenson
Joyce F. Benenson Harvard University
Valerie A. Thompson
Valerie A. Thompson University of Saskatchewan
Pierre Barrouillet
Pierre Barrouillet University of Geneva
Simon J. Handley
Simon J. Handley Macquarie University
Wim De Neys
Wim De Neys Université Paris Cité
Linden J. Ball
Linden J. Ball University of Central Lancashire
Beate Sodian
Beate Sodian Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Olivier Klein
Olivier Klein Université Libre de Bruxelles

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