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Books

Adler, J. E., & Rips, L. J. (eds.) (2008). 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 Articles and Chapters

 

Rips, L. J., Bloomfield, A., & Asmuth, J. (in press). From numerical concepts to concepts of number. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Rips, L. J. (2008). Causal thinking. In J. E. Adler & L. J. Rips (Eds.), Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and Its Foundation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Rips, L. J., Asmuth, J., & Bloomfield, A. (2008). Do children learn the integers by induction? Cognition, 106, 940-951.

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, UK: 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). Necessity and natural categories. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 827-852.

Rips, L. J. (2001). Two kinds of reasoning. Psychological Science, 12, 129-134.

Brem, S. K., & Rips, L. J. (2000). Evidence and explanation in informal argument. Cognitive Science, 24, 573-604.

Rips, L. J. (2000). The cognitive nature of instantiation. Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 20-43.