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The Design Stance, Intentional Stance, and Teleological Beliefs About Biological and Nonbiological Natural Entities by Roberts, Andrew J., Handley, Simon J., Polito, Vince

“…Teleology involves an appeal to function to explain why things are the way they are. Among scientists and philosophers, teleological explanations are widely…”
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Eye Movements, Pupil Dilation, and Conflict Detection in Reasoning: Exploring the Evidence for Intuitive Logic by Purcell, Zoe A., Roberts, Andrew J., Handley, Simon J., Howarth, Stephanie

“…A controversial claim in recent dual process accounts of reasoning is that intuitive processes not only lead to bias but are also sensitive to the logical…”
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The logic-bias effect: The role of effortful processing in the resolution of belief–logic conflict by Howarth, Stephanie, Handley, Simon J., Walsh, Clare

“…According to the default interventionist dual-process account of reasoning, belief-based responses to reasoning tasks are based on Type 1 processes generated…”
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Logic, Beliefs, and Instruction: A Test of the Default Interventionist Account of Belief Bias by Handley, Simon J, Newstead, Stephen E, Trippas, Dries

“…According to dual-process accounts of thinking, belief-based responses on reasoning tasks are generated as default but can be intervened upon in favor of…”
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Fluency and belief bias in deductive reasoning: new indices for old effects by Trippas, Dries, Handley, Simon J, Verde, Michael F

“…Models based on signal detection theory (SDT) have occupied a prominent role in domains such as perception, categorization, and memory. Recent work by Dube et…”
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The Goldilocks Placebo Effect: Placebo Effects Are Stronger When People Select a Treatment from an Optimal Number of Choices by Hafner, Rebecca J., White, Mathew P., Handley, Simon J.

“…People are often more satisfied with a choice (e.g., chocolates, pens) when the number of options in the choice set is “just right” (e.g., 10–12), neither too…”
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Illusory intuitive inferences: Matching heuristics explain logical intuitions by Ghasemi, Omid, Handley, Simon J., Howarth, Stephanie

“…The capacity to evaluate logical arguments intuitively is a fundamental assumption of recent dual-process theories. One observation supporting this effect is…”
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Spoilt for choice: The role of counterfactual thinking in the excess choice and reversibility paradoxes by Hafner, Rebecca J., White, Mathew P., Handley, Simon J.

“…Contrary to popular belief many choice options and the ability to reverse one's initial choice are sometimes associated with decreased chooser satisfaction…”
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Thinking about conditionals : A study of individual differences by EVANS, Jonathan St. B. T, HANDLEY, Simon J, NEILENS, Helen, OVER, David E

“…Recent studies have shown the existence of two qualitatively distinct groups of people based on how they judge the probability of a conditional statement. The…”
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When fast logic meets slow belief: Evidence for a parallel-processing model of belief bias by Trippas, Dries, Thompson, Valerie A., Handley, Simon J.

“…Two experiments pitted the default-interventionist account of belief bias against a parallel-processing model. According to the former, belief bias occurs…”
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Base Rates: Both Neglected and Intuitive by Pennycook, Gordon, Trippas, Dries, Handley, Simon J, Thompson, Valerie A

“…Base-rate neglect refers to the tendency for people to underweight base-rate probabilities in favor of diagnostic information. It is commonly held that…”
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Logic Brightens My Day: Evidence for Implicit Sensitivity to Logical Validity by Trippas, Dries, Handley, Simon J, Verde, Michael F, Morsanyi, Kinga

“…A key assumption of dual process theory is that reasoning is an explicit, effortful, deliberative process. The present study offers evidence for an implicit,…”
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Modeling causal conditional reasoning data using SDT: caveats and new insights by Trippas, Dries, Verde, Michael F, Handley, Simon J, Roser, Matthew E, McNair, Nicolas A, Evans, Jonathan St B T

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Investigating reasoning with multiple integrated neuroscientific methods by Roser, Matthew E, Evans, Jonathan St B T, McNair, Nicolas A, Fuggetta, Giorgio, Handley, Simon J, Carroll, Lauren S, Trippas, Dries

“…Analyses may focus on the time-courses of activation within brain regions (Rodriguez-Moreno and Hirsch, 2009), identifying subsets of regions involved at…”
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Logic Feels so Good--I Like It! Evidence for Intuitive Detection of Logicality in Syllogistic Reasoning by Morsanyi, Kinga, Handley, Simon J

“…When people evaluate syllogisms, their judgments of validity are often biased by the believability of the conclusions of the problems. Thus, it has been…”
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The SDT Model of Belief Bias: Complexity, Time, and Cognitive Ability Mediate the Effects of Believability by Trippas, Dries, Handley, Simon J, Verde, Michael F

“…When people evaluate conclusions, they are often influenced by prior beliefs. Prevalent theories claim that "belief bias" affects the quality of syllogistic…”
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The story of some: everyday pragmatic inference by children and adults by Feeney, Aidan, Scrafton, Susan, Duckworth, Amber, Handley, Simon J

“…The statement, some elephants have trunks, is logically true but pragmatically infelicitous. Whilst some is logically consistent with all, it is often…”
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Working memory, inhibitory control and the development of children's reasoning by Handley, Simon J, Capon, A, Beveridge, M, Dennis, I, Evans, J St BT

“…The ability to reason independently from one's own goals or beliefs has long been recognised as a key characteristic of the development of formal operational…”
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Better but still biased: Analytic cognitive style and belief bias by Trippas, Dries, Pennycook, Gordon, Verde, Michael F., Handley, Simon J.

“…Belief bias is the tendency for prior beliefs to influence people's deductive reasoning in two ways: through the application of a simple belief-heuristic…”
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Using forced choice to test belief bias in syllogistic reasoning by Trippas, Dries, Verde, Michael F., Handley, Simon J.

“…•Major reasoning theories posit that beliefs can qualitatively affect the reasoning process.•SDT (ROC) analysis has suggested that beliefs do not have an…”
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