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Ruth M. J. Byrne

Ruth M. J. Byrne

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
38
Citations
10560
World Ranking
8717
National Ranking
23

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Ruth M. J. Byrne is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on aspects of cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work frequently appears in academic venues such as Memory & Cognition, Cognitive Science, Thinking & Reasoning, arXiv (Cornell University), and the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. This distribution reflects a diverse engagement with both experimental and theoretical approaches within psychology and decision sciences.

Recent publications include:

  • Preference for SMS versus telephone calls in initiating romantic relationships, 2024, Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • Possibilities and the parallel meanings of factual and counterfactual conditionals, 2020, Memory & Cognition
  • How people reason with counterfactual and causal explanations for Artificial Intelligence decisions in familiar and unfamiliar domains, 2023, Memory & Cognition
  • Features of Explainability: How users understand counterfactual and causal explanations for categorical and continuous features in XAI, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Suppression of Inferences From Counterfactual Conditionals, 2020, Cognitive Science

Frequent coauthors of this researcher include:

  • Orlando Espino
  • P. N. Johnson-Laird
  • Greta Warren
  • Mark T. Keane
  • Sangeet Khemlani

Their work centers on key subfields that include:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • General Decision Sciences
  • Philosophy

Main topics addressed in their research cover areas such as:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Cognitive Science and Mapping

In 2007, this researcher was recognized as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, an acknowledgment of their standing in the academic community.

Best Publications

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

    Philip Johnson-Laird;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality

    Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • Human Reasoning: The Psychology Of Deduction

    Jonathan St. B. T. Evans;Stephen E. Newstead;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • Suppressing valid inferences with conditionals

    Ruth M.J. Byrne

  • Propositional reasoning by model.

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

  • Counterfactual Thought.

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  • Mental models and counterfactual thoughts about what might have been

    Ruth M.J. Byrne

  • Counterfactuals in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Evidence from Human Reasoning.

    Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • 'If' and the problems of conditional reasoning.

    Ruth M.J. Byrne;P.N. Johnson-Laird

  • Deductive reasoning with factual, possible, and counterfactual conditionals.

    Ruth M. J. Byrne;Alessandra Tasso

  • Counterexamples and the Suppression of Inferences

    Ruth M.J. Byrne;Orlando Espino;Carlos Santamaria

  • Reasoning by model: The case of multiple quantification.

    P. N. Johnson-Laird;Ruth M. J. Byrne;Patrizia Tabossi

  • Cognitive Processes in Counterfactual Thinking about what Might Have Been

    Ruth M.J. Byrne

  • Counterfactual thinking about actions and failures to act.

    Ruth M. J. Byrne;Alice McEleney

  • Reasoning counterfactually: Making inferences about things that didn't happen.

    Valerie A. Thompson;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • Counterfactual thinking about controllable events.

    Rachel McCloy;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • Facts and Possibilities: A Model‐Based Theory of Sentential Reasoning

    Sangeet S. Khemlani;Ruth M. J. Byrne;Philip N. Johnson‐Laird;Philip N. Johnson‐Laird

  • Précis of The rational imagination: how people create alternatives to reality.

    Ruth Mary Josephine Byrne

  • Counterfactual and semifactual conditionals prime alternative possibilities.

    Carlos Santamaría;Orlando Espino;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • The temporality effect in counterfactual thinking about what might have been

    Ruth M. J. Byrne;Susana Segura;Ronan Culhane;Alessandra Tasso

  • Can valid inferences be suppressed

    Ruth M.J. Byrne

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip N. Johnson-Laird
Philip N. Johnson-Laird Princeton University
Simon J. Handley
Simon J. Handley Macquarie University
Vittorio Girotto
Vittorio Girotto Università Iuav di Venezia
Valerie A. Thompson
Valerie A. Thompson University of Saskatchewan
Pablo Fernández-Berrocal
Pablo Fernández-Berrocal University of Malaga
Mike Oaksford
Mike Oaksford Birkbeck, University of London
Nick Chater
Nick Chater University of Warwick
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont

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