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Staff details Jonathan Evans
Role Professor of Cognitive Psychology (since 1985) Director of the Centre for Thinking and Language (since 1998) Head of School of Psychology (1999-2005) Qualifications & background BSc Psychology (1) University College London, 1972 PhD Psychology, University College London, 1972 Lecturer in Psychology, City of London Polytechnic, 1971-1974 Senior Lecturer/Reader at Plymouth Polytechnic 1974-1985 Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Plymouth Polytechnic/University of Plymouth 1985 on Professional membership Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society Member of the Experimental Psychology Society Roles on external bodies Editor, Thinking & Reasoning since 1995. Editorial Board, Cognition, since 1982. Research interests Deductive reasoning - especially the study of biases, linguistic and pragmatic factors. Rationality and reasoning. Dual process theory. Decision making and judgement - heuristics and biases in probability judgement; judgement analysis; medical decision making. Since 2000, I have been awarded four project grants from ESRC, as well as a personal research fellowship, with a total value of over £400,000. The project grants are for research on multicue judgement, judgement under uncertainty and for study of reasoning with and comprehension of conditional statements. I have developed a new theory of conditionals (Evans & Over, If, Oxford University Press, in press) which is the major focus of recent grant awards. Publication highlights in the past five years include a major review of the deductive reasoning field published in Psychological Bulletin, two experimental papers in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition; two papers in Memory & Cognition and a review of dual process theory published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. I have also developed a new version of my heuristic-analytic theory of reasoning which has recently been published Psychonomic Bulletin and Review and forms the basis for a new book on Hypothetical Thinking, in press with Psychology Press. Other research Conference papers and colloquia since 2001 Evans, J.St.B.T. (2008). Exploring the two minds hypothesis. De Montfort University, January. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2007). How many dual process theories do we need? One, two or many? Princeton University, October. UCL, November. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2007). The ghost at the banquet: type 3 processes. Workshop on dual process models in cognitive and social psychology. Universtiy of Charlottesville, VA. November. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2007). Dual-process theories in cognitive and social psychology: A comparison. University of Toulouse, France, May. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2006). Dual system theories of cognition: Some issues. Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, July. Also presented at the University of Leuven, May. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2006). The multiplicity of mind. International conference on ‘In two minds: Dual process theories of reasoning and rationality.’ Cambridge, July. Evans, J.St.B.T., Over, D.E. & Handley, S.J. (2004). Towards a suppositional theory of conditionals. BPS 5th International Conference on Thinking, Leuven, Belgum, July. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2004). A suppositional account of causal conditionals. International Workshop on Causal Cognition, University of Leuven, Beligum, July. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2004). Towards a suppositional theory of conditionals. Invited presentation, University of Caen, France, April. Evans, J.St.B.T., Handley, S.J. & Over, D.E. (2003). Towards a theory of conditionals. 2nd International Conference on Reasoning and Decision Making, Padua, Italy, March. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2003). Probabilities not possibilities: An account of thematic conditionals. International Workshop on Causal and Conditional Reasoning. Aix-en-Provence, France, March. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2002). The probability of conditionals. International conference on ‘The shape of thought’, University of Venice, August. Evans, J.St.B.T. & Clibbens, J. (2002). Explicit and implicit processes in multi-cue judgement. Experimental Psychology Society, January. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2001). Conditionals and conditional probability. Departmental seminar, University of Lancaster, October. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2001). Rethinking the model theory of conditionals. International workshop on mental models, Brussels, March. Research degrees awarded to supervised students Grants & contracts Evans, J.St.B.T. Developing the dual system theory of cognition. ESRC £193,417 (research fellowship). November 2005 - April 2008. Elqayam,S., Evans, J.St.B.T. and Over D.E. To be or not to be: A suppositional account of disjunctives. ESRC £44,644. November 2005 - October 2006. Evans, J.St.B.T., Bacon, A. & Handley, S.J. An investigation of dual processes in conditional reasoning. ESRC. £44,500. September 2005 - August 2006. Evans, J.St.B.T., Handley, S.J. & Over, D.E. Hypothetical thinking with conditional statements. ESRC. £99,493. December 2004 - May 2007. Handley, S.J., Elqayam, S. & Evans, J.St.B.T. Semantic illusions in hypothetical thinking. ESRC. £44,730. April 2004 - June 2005. Evans, J.St.B.T. & Clibbens, J. Implicit and explicit processes in multicue judgement. ESRC. £40,476. April 2000 - February 2002. Evans, J.St.B.T., Over, D.E. & Handley, S.J. Belief revision and uncertain reasoning. ESRC. £70,000. November 2002 - October 2003. Publications Since 2001 a)Books Evans, J.St.B.T. (2005). How to do research: A psychologist’s guide. Psychology Press. Evans, J.St.B.T. & Over, D.E., (2004). If. Oxford University Press. b) Refereed journal articles Evans, J. St. B. T., Handley, S., & Bacon, A. M. (in press). Reasoning under time pressure: A study of causal conditional inference. Experimental Psychology, xx, xx. Evans, J.St.B.T., Neilens, H., Handley, S.J. & Over, D.E. (in press). When can we say if? Cogniiton. Feeney, A., Evans, J. St. B. T. & Venn, S. (in press). Pseudodiagnosticity and Bayesian reasoning. Thinking & Reasoning. Evans, J.St.B.T., Handley, S.J., Neilens, H. & Over, D.E. (in press). Belief in causal conditionals: A study of individual differences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Evans, J. St. B. T. (2007). On the resolution of conflict in dual-process theories of reasoning. Thinking & Reasoning, 13, 321-329. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2008). Dual-processing accounts of reasoning, judgement and social cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 255-278. Elqayam, S., Evans, J. St. B.T. & Handley, S.J. (2008). On some limits of hypothetical thinking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 748-808. Evans, J.St.B.T. & Elqayam, S. (2007). Dual-processing explains base-rate neglect, but which dual-process theory and how? Behavioral and Brain Sceinces, 30, 261-262. Hadjichristidis, C., Handley, S., Sloman, S. A., Evans, J. St. B. T., Over, D. E., & Stevenson, R. J. (2007). Iffy beliefs: Conditional thinking and belief change. Memory & Cognition, 35, 2052-2059. Evans, J.St.B.T (2006). The heuristic-analytic theory of reasoning: Extension and evaluation. Psychnomic Bulletin and Review, 13, 378-395.. Handley,S.J., Evans, J.St.B.T. & Thompson, V. (2006). The negated conditional: Litmus test for the ssuppositional conditional? Jounal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 13, 378-395. Evans, J.St.B.T. & Curtis-Holmes, J. (2005). Rapid responding increases belief bias: evidence for the dual process theory of reasoning. Thinking & Reasoning, 11, 382-389. Evans, J.ST.B.T., Over, D.E. & Handley, S.J. (2005). Supposition, extensionality and conditionals: A critique of the mental model theory of Johnson-Laird and Byrne (2002). Psychological Review, 112, 1042-1052. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2005). The social and communicative function of conditionals. Mind and Society, 4, 97-114. .Evans, J.St.B.T., Clibbens, J. & Harris, A. (2005). Prior belief and polarity in multicue learning Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 651-666. Evans, J.St.B.T. & Thompson, V. (2004). Informal reasoning: Theory and method. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 69-74. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2004). Academic psychology in the UK: President?s Address 2038. The Psychologist, 17, 510=511. Evans, J.St.B.T. & Over, D.E. (2002). The role of language in the dual process theory of thinking. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 648-645 (Comment on Carruthers). Morley, N.J., Evans, J.St.B.T. & Handley, S.J. (2004). Belief bias and figural bias in syllogistic reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57A, 666-692. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2003). In two minds: dual process accounts of reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 454-459. Evans, J.St.B.T. , Clibbens, J., Cattani, A., Harris, A. & Dennis, I. (2003). Explicit and implicit processes in multi-cue judgment. Memory & Cognition, 31, 608-618. Over, D.E. & Evans, J.St.B.T. (2003). The probability of conditionals: The psychological evidence. Mind and Language, 18, 340-358. Evans, J.St.B.T., Handley, S.J. & Over, D.E. (2002). Conditionals and conditional probability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. 29, 321-335. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2002). Logic and human reasoning: An assessment of the deduction paradigm. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 978-996. Evans, J.St.B.T., Handley, S.J., Over, D.E. & Perham, N. (2002). Background beliefs in Bayesian reasoning. Memory & Cognition, 30, 179-190. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2002). Matching bias and set sizes: A discussion of Yama (2001). Thinking and Reasoning. 8, 97-164. Evans, J.St.B.T., Feeney, A. and Venn, S. (2002). Implicit and explicit processes in an hypothesis testing task. British Journal of Psychology, 93, 31-46. Evans, J.St.B.T,, Handley, S.J. & Harper,C. (2001). Necessity, possibility and belief: A study of syllogistic reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 54A, 935-958. (c) Book chapters Evans, J.St.B.T. (in press). How many dual process theories do we need; One, two or many? In J.St.B.T. Evans & . Frankish (Eds) (in press). In two minds: Dual processes and beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Over, D.E., Evans, J.St.B.T. & Elqayam, S. (in press). Conditionals and non-constructive reasoning. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Evans, J. St. B. T. & Coventry, K. R. (2006). A dual process approach to behavioural addiction: The case of gambling. In R. W. Wiers & A. Stacy (Eds.), Handbook of Implicit Processes in Addictive Behaviors: Developments in Memory, Cognition, Emotion, and Social Cognition Research. Sage. Evans, J. St. B. T, Over, D. E., & Handley, S. (in press). Rethinking the model theory of conditionals. In W. Schaeken, A. Vandierendonck, W. Schroyens, & G. d'Ydewalle (Eds.), The Mental models theory of reasoning: Refinements and extensions. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2005). Insight and self-insight in reasoning and decision making. In V.Girotto and P.N. Johnson-Laird (Eds). The shape of reason: essays in honours of Paolo Legrenzi (pp.27-47). Hove, UK. Psychology Press.Evans, J.St.B.T. (2005). Deductive reasoning. In K Holyoak (Ed). The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2004). Bias in deductive reasoning. In R Pohl (Ed) Cognitive Illusions. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2004). History of the dual process theory of reasoning. In K Manktelow and M C Chung (Eds). Psychology of Reasoning: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. Evans, J.St.B.T, & Feeney, A. (2004). The role of prior belief in reasoning. In Leighton, J.P. & R.J.Sternberg (Ed). The nature of reasoning. (pp.78-102). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Evans, J.St.B.T. (2003). The influence of prior belief on scientific thinking. In P Carruthers & M Siegal (Eds). The cognitive basis of science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Evans, J.St.B.T., Over, D.E. & Handley, S.J. (2003). A theory of hypothetical thinking. In D. Hardman & L. Maachi (Eds). The psychology of reasoning and decision making. (pp. 3-21). Chichester: Wiley. Newstead, S., Bradon, P., Handley, S., Evans, J. & Dennis, I. (2002) Using the psychology of reasoning to predict the difficulty of analytical reasoning problems. (pp.35-52). In S.H.Irvine and P.Kyllonen (Eds.) Item generation and test development. London: Erlbaum. Dennis, I., Handley, S., Bradon, P., Evans, J. & Newstead, S. (2002) Approaches to modelling item-generative tests. (pp.53-72). In S.H.Irvine and P.Kyllonen (Eds.) Item generation and test development. London:Erlbaum. Reports & invited lectures Keynote addresses since 2001 Evans, J.St.B.T. (2008). Exploring the two minds hypothesis. Keynote address. British Psychological Society, Scottish Branch. Edinburgh, February. Evans, J.St.B.T. (2005). The role of knowledge and belief in human reaosning. International Conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Helsinki (keynote address).Evans, J.St.B.T. (2004). Modelling thinking and reasoning: The challenge ahead. 9th Neural Compuation and Psychology Workshop, University of Plymouth, September. (keynote speaker). Invited speaker at International meeting Causal Cognition, University of Leuven, July 2004. Other invited papers presented at meetings in Brussels (March 2001), Venice (August 2002), Aix-en-Provence (March 2003) Padua (2003) and Caen (2004). Conferences organised EPS Conference. Plymouth, July 2006. Local organizer and symposium convener. |
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