Vittorio Girotto insegna Psicologia Cognitiva presso la Facoltà di Disegno e Arti e dell’Università IUAV di Venezia.

In passato ha insegnato nelle Università di Trieste, Milano (San Raffaele) e Siena, ed è stato ricercatore al CNR (Roma) e al CNRS (Aix-en-Provence).

I suoi principali interessi di ricerca riguardano il giudizio probabilistico, il pensiero controfattuale e il ragionamen-to deduttivo. In particolare, i suoi lavori più recenti sono volti ad indagare le capacità di ragionamento probabilistico dei bambini e gli effetti del ruolo nella costruzione di alternative mentali alla realtà.

 

 

Alcune pubblicazioni recenti/Some recent publications

 

Girotto, V. & Tentori, K. (in press) Is domain-general thinking a domain-specific adaptation? Mind and Society?

 

Byrne, R.M. & Girotto, V. (in press) Cognitive processes in counterfactual thinking. In K.D. Markman, W.M.P. Klein, & J.A. Surh (Eds.) The handbook of imagination and mental simulation. New York: Psychology Press.

 

Girotto, V. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (in press) Conditionals and probability. In M. Oaksford (Ed.) The psychology of conditionals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Girotto, V. & Gonzalez, M. (2008) Children’s understanding of posterior probability. Cognition, 106,325-344.

 

Teglas, E., Girotto, V., Gonzalez, M., & Bonatti, L.L. (2007) Intuitions of probabilities shape expectations about the future at 12 months and beyond. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 104, 19156, 19159.

 

Girotto, V. & Gonzalez, M. (2007) How to elicit sound probabilistic reasoning: Beyond word problems. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 268.

 

Girotto, V., Ferrante, D., Pighin, S., & Gonzalez, M. (2007) Postdecisional counterfactual thinking by actors and readers. Psychological Science, 18, 510-515.

 

Girotto, V. & Gonzalez, M. (2007). Extensional reasoning about chances. In W. Schaeken, A. Vandierendonck, W. Schroyens, & G. d'Ydewalle. (Eds.), The mental models theory of reasoning, Mahwah, N.J., Erlbaum.

 

Girotto, V. & Gonzalez, M. (2006). Norms and intuitions about chance. In L. Smith, & J. Voneche. (Eds.). Norms and development, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

 

Girotto, V. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2005). The shape of reason. Hove: Psychology Press.

 

Girotto, V. (2004). Task understanding. In J. Leighton & R. Sternberg (Eds.), The nature of reasoning. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

 

Girotto, V. & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2004). The probability of conditionals. Psychologia (special issue on Reasoning), 47, 207-225.

 

Girotto, V. & Legrenzi, P. (2004). Social factors in thinking and reasoning: The contribution of Willem Doise. New European Review of Social Psychology, 3, 88-93.

 

Johnson-Laird, P.N., Girotto, V. & Legrenzi, P. (2004) Reasoning from inconsistency to consistency. Psychological Review, 111, 640-661

 

Johnson-Laird, P.N., Legrenzi, P., & Girotto, V. (2004) How we detect logical inconsistencies. Current Direction in Psychological Science, 13, 41-45.

 

Zorzi, M. & Girotto, V. (2004). Fondamenti di psicologia generale. Bologna: Il Mulino

 

Girotto, V. (2003). L’effetto Bozzi: Cambiando l’ordine degli addendi, la somma cambia. Rivista di Estetica, 24, 77-79.

 

Legrenzi, P., Girotto, V., & Johnson-Laird, P.N. (2003). Models of consistency. Psychological Science, 14, 131-137.

 

Sperber, D. & Girotto, V. (2003) Does the selection task detects cheater-detector? In J. Fitness, J. & K. Sterelny (Eds.), From mate to mentality. Evaluating evolutionary psychology. New York: Psychology Press.

 

Girotto, V. & Gonzalez, M. (2002). Chances and frequencies in probabilistic reasoning: Rejoinder to Hoffrage, Gigerenzer, Krauss and Martignon. Cognition, 84, 353-359.

 

Sperber, D. & Girotto,V.  (2002). Use or misuse of the selection task? Cognition, 85, 277-290.

 

Girotto, V. & Gonzalez, M. (2001). Solving probabilistic and statistical problems: A matter of question form and information structure. Cognition, 78, 247-276.

 

Girotto, V., Kemmelmeir, M., Sperber, D, & van der Henst, J.B. (2001). Inept reasoners or pragmatic virtuosos? Relevance and the deontic selection task. Cognition, 81, 69-76.

 

Rossi, S., Caverni, J.P., & Girotto, V. (2001). Hypothesis testing in a rule discovery problem: When a focused procedure is effective, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54, 263-267.

 

Johnson-Laird, P.N., Legrenzi, P., Girotto, V. & Sonino, M. (2000) Illusions in reasoning about consistency. Science, 288, 531-532.

 

 

Link a siti dedicati alla teoria dei modelli mentali/Links to sites about the mental model theory:

 

http://www.tcd.ie/Psychology/Ruth_Byrne/mental_models/.

 

http://webscript.princeton.edu/~mentmod/index.php)

 

 

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