Role
Scientific Officer
Qualifications & background
MSc Cognitive Neuropsychology, Lorand Eotvos University, Hungary
PhD Cognitive Psychology, University of Plymouth, UK
Teaching interests
I teach statistics and research methods for undergraduate psychology students.
Research interests
the development of reasoning heuristics, autism, probabilistic reasoning, feelings and reasoning
UoP Research group membership
Cognition
Grants & contracts
Externally funded projects
2011-2012 ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (£101, 000)
2011-2013 Royal Society International Joint Project (£12,000; with Simon Handley, Caterina Primi, Francesca Chiesi and Silvia Galli)
2008-2009 Higher Education Academy project: Undoing the side-effects of statistics education (£6,000; with Simon Handley)
The project report (together with web-based training materials) is available at: http://www.psychology.heacademy.ac.uk/s.php?p=256&db=78
Grants and awards
- 2010 - School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Post-doctoral Career Development Fellowship (£2,000)
- 2009 - Robert J. Glushko and Pamela Samuelson Foundation Student Travel Grant for Outstanding Student Paper at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society ($500)
- 2008 - International Conference on Cognitive Science, Moscow. Student travel award (200 Euro)
- 2007 - Study visit grant from the Experimental Psychology Society, UK. University of California, Los Angeles, mentor: Professor Keith J. Holyoak (£980)
- 2004 - Austria-Hungary Action Foundation (Aktion Osterreich-Ungarn Stiftung). Study visit grant for M.Sc. project (title: Possible links between the impairment of language and cognition in aphasia.) Mentor: Dr. Jacqueline A. Stark, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (800 Euro).
Publications
Morsanyi, K., Primi, C., Handley, S.J., Chiesi, F. & Galli, S. (2011). Are systemizing and autistic traits related to talent and interest in mathematics and engineering? Testing some of the central claims of the empathizing-systemizing theory. British Journal of Psychology. (in press)
Chiesi, F., Ciancaleoni, M., Galli, S., Morsanyi, K. & Primi, C. (2011). Item Response Theory analysis and Differential Item Functioning across age, gender and country of a short form of the Advanced Progressive Matrices. Learning and Individual Differences. (in press)
Thompson, V.A. & Morsanyi, K. (2011). Analytic thinking: Do you feel like it? Mind & Society. (in press)
Morsanyi, K., & Handley, S.J. (2011). Logic feels so good -I like it! Evidence for intuitive detection of logicality in syllogistic reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition. (in press)
Chiesi, F., Primi, C. & Morsanyi, K. (2011). Developmental changes in probabilistic reasoning: The role of cognitive capacity, instructions, thinking styles and relevant knowledge. Thinking and Reasoning, 17, 315-350.
Morsanyi, K. Handley, S.J. & Evans, J.S.B.T. (2010). Decontextualised minds: Adolescents with autism are less susceptible to the conjunction fallacy than typically developing adolescents. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40, 1378-1388 .
Morsanyi, K. & Holyoak, K.J. (2010). Analogical reasoning ability in autistic and typically-developing children. Developmental Science, 13, 578-587.
Morsanyi, K., Primi, C., Chiesi, F., & Handley, S.J. (2009). The effects and side-effects of statistics education. Psychology students’ (mis-)conceptions of probability. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 34, 210-220.
Morsanyi, K., Handley, S.J. & Evans J.S.B.T. (2009). Heuristics and biases in autism: Less biased but not more logical. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 75-80). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Morsanyi, K., & Handley, S.J. (2008). How smart do you need to be to get it wrong? The role of cognitive capacity in the development of heuristic-based judgment. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 99, 18-36.
Reports & invited lectures
Conferences:
Awares, Autism 2010 and 2011 conferences
Departmental seminars:
Queen's University (host: Dr. Aidan Feeney)
University of Cambridge (host: Dr. Denes Szucs)
Conferences organised
Member of the International Scientific Commitee of the World Conference on Psychology, Counselling and Guidance, 21-25th April 2010. Antalya, Turkey
Other academic activities
Ad-hoc reviewer for the British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Learning and Individual Differences, Mind and Language, and Review of Psychology.
