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Simon J. Handley

Simon J. Handley

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Psychology

D-Index
41
Citations
6289
World Ranking
7962
National Ranking
474

Overview

Simon J. Handley is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their research expertise spans across social sciences and neuroscience, focusing particularly on cognitive neuroscience and decision sciences. Their works have contributed to understanding the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms underlying decision-making and social processes.

The main research topics addressed by Handley include:

  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology

They have published frequently in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)
  • Memory & Cognition
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Recent papers by Handley include:

  • Logical intuition is not really about logic., 2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • The bright homunculus in our head: Individual differences in intuitive sensitivity to logical validity, 2021, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Illusory intuitive inferences: Matching heuristics explain logical intuitions, 2023, Cognition
  • Uncontrolled logic: intuitive sensitivity to logical structure in random responding, 2021, Thinking & Reasoning
  • The design stance, intentional stance, and teleological beliefs about biological and nonbiological natural entities., 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of Handley's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Stephanie Howarth
  • Omid Ghasemi
  • Vince Polito
  • Andrew Roberts
  • Ian R. Newman

Best Publications

  • Conditionals and conditional probability.

    Jonathan S t B T Evans;Simon J Handley;David E Over

  • The probability of causal conditionals.

    David E. Over;Constantinos Hadjichristidis;Jonathan St. B.T. Evans;Simon J. Handley

  • Frequency versus probability formats in statistical word problems.

    Jonathan St.B.T Evans;Simon J Handley;Nick Perham;David E Over

  • : Working memory, inhibitory control and the development of children's reasoning

    Simon J. Handley;A. Capon;M. Beveridge;I. Dennis

  • Individual differences in deductive reasoning

    Stephen E. Newstead;Simon J. Handley;Clare Harley;Helen Wright

  • Suppositions, extensionality, and conditionals: a critique of the mental model theory of Johnson-Laird And Byrne (2002).

    Jonathan St. B. T. Evans;David E. Over;Simon J. Handley

  • Logic, beliefs, and instruction: a test of the default interventionist account of belief bias.

    Simon J. Handley;Stephen E. Newstead;Dries Trippas

  • The story of some: everyday pragmatic inference by children and adults.

    Aidan Feeney;Susan Scrafton;Amber Duckworth;Simon J. Handley

  • The influence of cognitive ability and instructional set on causal conditional inference.

    Jonathan St. B. T. Evans;Simon J. Handley;Helen Neilens;David Over

  • Base rates: both neglected and intuitive.

    Gordon Pennycook;Dries Trippas;Simon J. Handley;Valerie A. Thompson

  • Thinking about conditionals: A study of individual differences

    Jonathan St. B. T. Evans;Simon J. Handley;Helen Neilens;David E. Over

  • Necessity, possibility and belief: a study of syllogistic reasoning.

    Jonathan St. B.T. Evans;Simon J. Handley;Catherine N. J. Harper

  • Dual Processes and the Interplay between Knowledge and Structure: A New Parallel Processing Model

    Simon J. Handley;Dries Trippas

  • Logic Feels so Good--I Like It! Evidence for Intuitive Detection of Logicality in Syllogistic Reasoning.

    Kinga Morsanyi;Simon J Handley

  • The Role of Negation in Conditional Inference

    Jonathan St.B.T. Evans;Simon J. Handley

  • When fast logic meets slow belief: Evidence for a parallel-processing model of belief bias.

    Dries Trippas;Valerie A. Thompson;Simon J. Handley

  • In search of counter-examples: deductive rationality in human reasoning.

    Walter Schroyens;Walter Schaeken;Simon Handley

  • Working memory and reasoning: An individual differences perspective

    Alison Capon;Simon Handley;Ian Dennis

  • Conditional reasoning and the Tower of Hanoi: the role of spatial and verbal working memory.

    Simon J. Handley;A. Capon;C. Copp;C. Harper

  • How smart do you need to be to get it wrong? The role of cognitive capacity in the development of heuristic-based judgment.

    Kinga Morsanyi;Simon J. Handley

  • Reasoning about Necessity and Possibility: A Test of the Mental Model Theory of Deduction

    Jonathan St. B. T. Evans;Simon J. Handley;Catherine N. J. Harper;Phillip N. Johnson-Laird

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Valerie A. Thompson
Valerie A. Thompson University of Saskatchewan
Ruth M. J. Byrne
Ruth M. J. Byrne Trinity College Dublin
Mathew P. White
Mathew P. White University of Vienna
Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook Cornell University
Steven A. Sloman
Steven A. Sloman Brown University
Timothy J. Perfect
Timothy J. Perfect Plymouth University
Henry Markovits
Henry Markovits University of Quebec at Montreal
Robert W. Kentridge
Robert W. Kentridge Durham University
Philip N. Johnson-Laird
Philip N. Johnson-Laird Princeton University

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