Shira Elqayam

Reader in Cognitive Science, De Montfort University

Head of Research, Division of Psychology

Research interests

My research interests are in higher mental processes and primarily in reasoning, decision making, and their linguistic aspects. The main themes in my work are normative rationality and thinking, disjunctive thinking, dual process theories, and iterative and interactive processes in hypothetical thinking.

Dr Shira Elqayam

School of Applied Social Sciences

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

De Montfort University

The Gateway

Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK

selqayam at dmu.ac.uk                         ^Top

Selected recent publications

Elqayam, S. (2012). Grounded rationality: Descriptivism in epistemic context. Synthese, 189, 39-49.

Elqayam, S., & Over, D.E. (2012). New paradigm in psychology of reasoning: Probabilities, beliefs, and dual processing. Mind & Society, 11, 27-40.

Elqayam, S. & Evans, St.B.T. (2011). Subtracting 'ought' from 'is': Descriptivism versus normativism in the study of the human thinking. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34 (5), 233-248. (Target article).

Manktelow, K.I., Over, D.E., & Elqayam, S. (Eds.) (2011). The Science of Reason: A Festschrift in Honour of Jonathan St.B.T. Evans. Hove: Psychology Press.

Elqayam, S., Ohm, E., Evans, J.St.B.T., & Over, D.E. (2010). First things first: Order bias in deontic disjunctions. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 375-401.

 

Selected grants

Elqayam, S., Thompson, V., Over, D.E. & Evans, J.St.B.T. (2012). Generative capacity of norms: A theory of inference from 'is' to 'ought'. Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant, £75,450.

Huitink, J., Elqayam, S., & Over, D.E. (2010). Iterated conditionals. As ordinary as can be? EURO-XPRAG research travel grant, €4,000.

Elqayam, S., Thompson, V., Over, D.E. & Evans, J.St.B.T. (2009) Deontic introduction: How to infer the ‘ought’ from the ‘is’. EPS research grant, £2,000.

 

Last updated October 2013