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Philip N. Johnson-Laird

Philip N. Johnson-Laird

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Psychology

D-Index
92
Citations
76669
World Ranking
858
National Ranking
543

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Mind & Brain Prize, University and Polytechnic of Turin
  • 1991 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1974 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Philip N. Johnson-Laird is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with significant work in subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Decision Sciences, and History and Philosophy of Science.

Their research topics cover areas including Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, Philosophy and History of Science, Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference, Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Cognitive Science and Mapping, and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms.

Recent papers by Philip N. Johnson-Laird include:

  • How poetry evokes emotions, 2022, published in Acta Psychologica
  • Reasoning about properties: A computational theory, 2021, Psychological Review
  • Reasoning about epistemic possibilities, 2020, Acta Psychologica
  • Possibilities and the parallel meanings of factual and counterfactual conditionals, 2020, Memory & Cognition
  • The probability of conditionals: A review, 2021, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated on multiple research projects are:

  • Sangeet Khemlani
  • Lindsey Drayton
  • Rolf Van Der Sanden
  • Patrick Scheffmann
  • Ralph Adolphs

Common publication venues for their work include:

  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Acta Psychologica
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Journal of Cognitive Psychology
  • Thinking & Reasoning

Throughout their career, Philip N. Johnson-Laird has received several awards such as the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2010, election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007, the Mind & Brain Prize from the University and Polytechnic of Turin in 2004, Fellowship of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 1991, and the Spearman Medal from the British Psychological Society in 1974.

Best Publications

  • Mental models in cognitive science

    P. N. Johnson-Laird

  • Mental models

    P. N. Johnson-Laird

  • Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness

    Marilyn Ford;Philip N. Johnson-Laird

  • Language and Perception

    George Armitage Miller;Philip Johnson-Laird

  • Psychology of Reasoning: Structure and Content

    Peter Cathcart Wason;P. N. Johnson-Laird

  • Towards a Cognitive Theory of Emotions

    Keith Oatley;P. N. Johnson-laird

  • Mental models: towards a cognitive science of language, inference, and consciousness

    P. N. Johnson-Laird

  • The Computer and the Mind : An Introduction to Cognitive Science

    Philip N. Johnson-Laird

  • The language of emotions: An analysis of a semantic field

    P. N. Johnson-laird;Keith Oatley

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

    Philip Johnson-Laird;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • How We Reason

    Philip N. Johnson-Laird

  • REASONING AND A SENSE OF REALITY

    P. N. Johnson-Laird;Paolo Legrenzi;Maria Sonino Legrenzi

  • Propositional reasoning by model.

    Philip N. Johnson-Laird;Ruth M. Byrne;Walter Schaeken

  • Basic emotions, rationality, and folk theory

    P. N. Johnson-laird;Keith Oatley

  • Mental models and human reasoning

    Philip N. Johnson-Laird

  • Mental models and deduction

    Philip N. Johnson-Laird

  • Thinking; Readings in Cognitive Science

    P. N. Johnson-Laird;Peter Cathcart. Wason

  • Naive Probability: A Mental Model Theory of Extensional Reasoning

    Philip Johnson-Laird;Paolo Legrenzi;Vittorio Girotto;Maria Sonino Legrenzi

  • How Diagrams Can Improve Reasoning

    Malcolm I. Bauer;P. N. Johnson-Laird

  • Focussing in reasoning and decision making

    P. Legrenzi;V. Girotto;Philip N. Johnson-Laird

  • Mental Models : Towards a Cognitive Science of Language

    P. N. Johnson-Laird

  • Mental Models : Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Interface, and Consciousness

    Philip N. Johnson-Laird

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth M. J. Byrne
Ruth M. J. Byrne Trinity College Dublin
Vittorio Girotto
Vittorio Girotto Università Iuav di Venezia
Keith Oatley
Keith Oatley University of Toronto
Jane Oakhill
Jane Oakhill University of Sussex
Eldar Shafir
Eldar Shafir Princeton University
Alan Garnham
Alan Garnham University of Sussex
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Andrew W. Ellis
Andrew W. Ellis University of York
Earl Hunt
Earl Hunt University of Washington
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker Harvard University

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