Our Scientific Reasoning Publications

Seifert, C. M., Harrington, M., Michal, A. L., & Shah, P. (2022). Causal theory error in college students’ understanding of science studies. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications7(1), 4.

Fansher, M., Adkins, T. J., & Shah, P. (2022). Graphs do not lead people to infer causation from correlation. Journal of experimental psychology: applied28(2), 314.

Michal, A. L., Zhong, Y., & Shah, P. (2021) When and why do people act on flawed science? Effects of anecdotes and prior beliefs on evidence-based decision-making. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.

Franconeri, S., Hullman, J., Padilla, L., Shah, P., & Zacks, J. (2021). The science of visual data communication: What works.  Psychological Science in the Public Interest. 

Nancekivell, S. E., Sun, X., Gelman, S. A., & Shah, P. (2021). A Slippery Myth: How Learning Style Beliefs Shape Reasoning about Multimodal Instruction and Related Scientific Evidence. Cognitive Science45(10), e13047. 

Subramonyam, H., Seifert, C., Shah, P., & Adar, E. (2020).  texSketch: Active diagramming through pen-and-ink annotations.  ACM Proceedings.

Shah, P., Michal, A., Ibrahim, A., Rhodes, R., & Rodriguez, F. (2017). What makes everyday scientific reasoning so challenging?  B. Ross (Ed). The Psychology of Learning and Motivation,66, 251-299.

Rodriguez, F., Ng, A., & Shah, P. (2016).  Do college students notice errors in evidence when evaluating research findings? Journal of Excellence in College Teaching, 27, 63-68

Rodriguez, F., Rhodes, R., Miller, K., & Shah, P. (2016). Examining the influence of anecdotal stories and the interplay of individual differences on reasoning. Thinking and Reasoning, 22, 274-296. 

Rhodes, R., Rodriguez, F., & Shah, P. (2014).  Explaining the alluring influence of neuroscience in scientific reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 40, 1432-1440.

Burrage, M., Epstein, M., & Shah, P. (2007).  Learning and making decision about data (pp. 441-452).  In M. Lovett & P. Shah (Eds). Thinking with data.  Mahweh, NJ: Erlbaum.