Research


Research interests

  • Evidence based practice in child and adolescent mental health (CAMH), for instance how to use routine outcome monitoring in clinical practice, at CAMH service level, and at national levels of analysis
  • How people reason about uncertain information - increasingly including applied aspects of how best to explain uncertainty
  • Individual differences in reasoning, especially explaining the qualitatively different ways that people interpret and think about information
  • The broader autism spectrum, i.e., characteristics of people who do not necessarily meet clinical criteria for autism spectrum condition (ASC) but who show ASC-like patterns of thinking, feeling, and interaction.

Research output

See the original published article before citing, but the papers below are pretty much the final version, modulo layout and a typo or two.

Journal articles

Book chapters and papers published in proceedings

Reports and other stuff

Conference, workshop, and invited presentations

  • Andy Fugard, Jenna Bradley, Dion Terrelonge, Emily Stapley, Miranda Wolpert & CORC (2012). Making sense of children and young people's mental health outcomes in naturalistic settings. Invited talk at the Psychology Department, University of Stirling, 23 Feb 2012.
  • Miranda Wolpert, Andy Fugard, Halina Flannery, Jenna Bradley, and Jessica Deighton (2011). Using Routinely Collected Outcomes to Transform Practice. Talk at the First CORC International Conference, London, 11 July 2011.
  • "Empirical constraints on how the mind computes a Ramsey test."  Invited talk at the the DIP Colloquium, of the Logic and Language group at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam, 18 Feb 2011.
  • "Reasoning about uncertain conditionals in frontal and hypoxic-ischemic brain injury patients."  Poster at the 29th European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, 23-28 January 2011. Work with Guilherme Wood and Harald Zauner.
  • "Towards a rational use of mathematics in the psychology of reasoning."  Talk at the British Psychological Society, Mathematics, Statistics & Computing Section Meeting, Nottingham, UK, 14 December 2010.
  • "The psychology of deduction in a probabilistic setting."  Talk at the symposium "What is a deduction? Integrating logical, psychological and philosophical perspectives", at the Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Bochum and Essen, Germany, 25-28 August 2010.  Work with Niki Pfeifer.  (Slides.)
  • Participant at the Impulses from Salzburg conference "Resilience and Unemployment", 18-21 May 2010. Organised by the Center for Ethics and Poverty Research and the ifz – International Research Center.
  • "How people converge on an interpretation of conditionals." Talk at ProbNet10, 25-28 February 2010.  Work with Pfeifer, Mayerhofer, Kleiter.  (Slides.)
  • "What does probability have to do with how people reason?" Salzburger Gesellschaft für Psychologie, 13 Jan 2010. Jointly given with Niki Pfeifer.
  • "How people interpret an uncertain if". Talk at WUPES, Liblice, 19-23rd Sept 2009. Work with Niki Pfeifer, Bastian Mayerhofer, and Gernot Kleiter.
  • "Modelling reasoning processes as a function of autistic-like traits". Talk at ESPP, Budapest, 27-30 August 2009. Work with Mary Stewart and Keith Stenning. (Slides.)
  • "Conditional interpretation in a generalized probabilistic truth table task". Talk at the 4th London Reasoning Workshop, 27-28th July, Birkbeck College, London. Work with Niki Pfeifer, Bastian Mayerhofer, and Gernot Kleiter.  (Slides.)
  • "Embracing individual differences in reasoning". Talk at ProbNet09, 19th–23rd February 2009, University of Salzburg.
  • "Exploring quantifier reasoning and autistic-like traits". Poster with Keith Stenning and Mary Stewart at the International Conference on Thinking, Venice, Italy, 21-23 August 2008
  • "Autistic traits moderate closed world interpretation in conditional reasoning". Poster with Keith Stenning and Mary Stewart at the International Conference on Thinking, Venice, Italy, 21-23 August 2008
  • "How do autistic traits relate to reasoning processes?" Poster with Keith Stenning, Bob Logie, and Mary Stewart at the Experimental Psychology Society meeting, joint with the Psychonomics Society, Edinburgh, 4-7 July 2007

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