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Research Interests
My current interests include concepts (especially concepts of individual objects and events as they change in time), reasoning (especially reasoning about new mathematical systems), and autobiographical memory.
Selected Publications
Books:
Adler, J. E., & Rips, L. J. (eds.) (in press). Reasoning: Studies of human inference and its foundations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Tourangeau, R., Rips, L. J., & Rasinski, K. (2000). The psychology of survey response. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Sloman, S. A., & Rips, L. J. (eds.) (1998). Similarity and symbols in human thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Rips, L. J. (1994). The psychology of proof: Deduction in human thinking. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Recent Journal articles:
Rips, L. J., Asmuth, J., & Bloomfield, A. (in press). Do children learn the integers by induction? Cognition.
Rips, L. J. (in press). Causal thinking. In J. E. Adler & L. J. Rips (Eds.), Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and Its Foundation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Blok, S. V., Newman, G. E., & Rips, L. J. (2007). Out of sorts? Remedies for theories of object concepts: A reply to Rhemtulla and Xu. Psychological Review, 114, 1096-1102 .
Rips, L. J., & Asmuth, J. (2007). Mathematical induction and induction in mathematics. In A. Feeney & E. Heit (Eds.), Induction (pp. 248-268). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Rips, L. J., Asmuth, J., & Bloomfield, A. (2006). Giving the boot to the bootstrap: How not to learn the natural numbers. Cognition, 101, B51-B60.
Rips, L. J., Blok, S., & Newman, G. (2006). Tracing the identity of objects. Psychological Review, 113, 1-30.
Blok, S., Newman, G., & Rips, L. J. (2005). Individuals and their concepts. In W-k. Ahn, R. L. Goldstone, B. C. Love, A. B. Markman, & P. Wolff (Eds.), Categorization inside and outside the lab (pp. 127-149). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Rips, L. J., Conrad, F. G., & Fricker, S. S. (2003). Straightening the seam effect in panel surveys. Public Opinion Quarterly, 67, 522-554.
Rips, L. J. (2002). Circular reasoning. Cognitive Science, 26, 767-795.
Rips, L. J. (2001). Two kinds of reasoning. Psychological Science, 12, 129-134..
Rips, L. J. (2001). Necessity and natural categories. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 827-852.
Rips, L. J. (2001). Reasoning imperialism. In R. Elio (Ed.), Common sense, reasoning, and rationality (pp. 215-235). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
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