Location:
Symposium Organizers
Professor Mike Oaksford (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Ms Jane Emralino, (Birkbeck College, University of London)
(j.emralino@bbk.ac.uk).
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7HX
Location: Room 532
The 6th London Reasoning Workshop: 3rd to the 4th of August 2011(Rm. 532)
Mondayththe 27th to Tuesday the 28th of July 2009
The 6 London Reasoning Workshop
Wednesday the 3rd of August 2011
09:30-10:00
Tea & Coffee in room 541. Welcome by Mike Oaksford
Symposium 1: Argumentation and Belief Bias
10:40—11:20
Mike Oaksford & Ulrike Hahn: Why are we convinced by the ad hominem argument: Bayesian
source reliability and pragma-dialectical discussion rules
Erin Beatty & Valerie Thompson: An investigation of perspective and belief bias.
11:20—11:50
Tea & Coffee in room 541
10:00—10:40
Symposium 3: Dual Processes & Probabilities
11:50 —12:30
Valerie Thompson & Stephen Johnson: Metacognition and the monitoring and control of
reasoning: Individual differences, conflict detection, and the feeling of rightness
12:30—13:10
Sunny Khemlani, Max Lotstein, & Phil Johnson-Laird: What makes intensional estimates of
probabilities inconsistent?
13:10—14:30
Lunch
14:30—15:10
15:10-—15:50
Shira Elqayam* & David Over: Beliefs, probabilities and dual processing: The new paradigm in
psychology of reasoning.
Dries Trippas: Base rate "neglect": A conflict between two Type 1 processes?
15:50—16:20
Tea & Coffee in room 541
Symposium 2: Conditionals
16:20—17:00
Gernot Kleiter: The conditional event interpretation of conditionals in children and adults
17:00—17:40
David Over* & Thomas Charreau: The de Finetti table and conditional bets
17:40
Wine reception (Dinner at Paradiso, 19:30)
* Indicates speaker
The 6th London Reasoning Workshop
Thursday the 4th of August 2011
BBK, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX
Location: Room TBA
09:15-09:30
Tea & Coffee in room 541
Symposium 4: “Interested” Reasoning
09:30—10:10
Bastien Trémolière: Thinking About Death Makes People Less Utilitarian
10:10—10:50
Jonathan Nelson* & Bjoern Meder: Information search under asymmetric reward
conditions
10:50—11:20
Tea & Coffee in room 541
Symposium 5: Open Session
11:20-12:00
Hiroshi Yama: Culture and inference: High context and low context
12:00-12:40
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau: Einstellung Defused: Interactivity and Mental Set
12:40—14:00
Lunch
Symposium 6: Causal Reasoning
14:00—14:40
Tobias Gerstenberg*, David A. Lagnado, Joshua B. Tenenbaum: Noisy Newtons: People's
intuitive understanding of physics explains their cause and prevention judgments
14:40-—15:20
Denis Hilton* & John McClure: Acting knowingly: Effects of awareness of an
opportunity on causal attributions, responsibility judgments and blame.
15:20—16:00
Ro'i Zultan*, Tobias Gerstenberg, David Lagnado: The Role of Causality and
Counterfactual Thinking in Responsibility Attributions in Teams
16:00
Close (Pub)
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