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Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2020) New paradigms in the psychology of reasoning. Annual Review of Psychology 71 , pp. 305-330. ISSN 0066-4308.

Chater, N. and Felin, T. and Funder, D.C. and Gigerenzer, G. and Koenderink, J.J. and Krueger, J.I. and Noble, D. and Nordli, S.A. and Oaksford, Mike and Schwartz, B. and Stanovich, K.E. and Todd, P.M. (2018) Mind, rationality, and cognition: an interdisciplinary debate. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 25 (2), pp. 793-826. ISSN 1069-9384.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2017) Theories or fragments? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40 (e253), pp. 30-31. ISSN 0140-525X.

Hall, Simon and Ali, N. and Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2016) Discounting and augmentation in causal conditional reasoning: causal models or shallow encoding? PLoS ONE , ISSN 1932-6203.

Tsetsos, Kostantinos and Moran, R. and Moreland, J. and Chater, N. and Usher, Marius and Summerfield, C. (2016) Economic irrationality is optimal during noisy decision making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (11), pp. 3102-3107. ISSN 0027-8424.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2016) Probabilities, causation, and logic programming in conditional reasoning: reply to Stenning and Van Lambalgen (2016). Thinking & Reasoning 22 (3), pp. 336-354. ISSN 1354-6783.

Tsetsos, Kostantinos and Moran, R. and Moreland, J.C. and Chater, N. and Usher, Marius and Summerfield, C. (2016) Reply to Davis-Stober et al.: Violations of rationality in a psychophysical task are not aggregation artifacts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (33), E4764-E4766. ISSN 0027-8424.

Tsetsos, Konstantinos and Chater, N. and Usher, Marius (2015) Examining the mechanisms underlying contextual preference reversal: comment on Trueblood, Brown, and Heathcote (2014). Psychological Review 122 (4), pp. 838-847. ISSN 0033-295X.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2014) Probabilistic single function dual process theory and logic programming as approaches to non-monotonicity in human vs. artificial reasoning. Thinking & Reasoning 20 (2), pp. 269-295. ISSN 1354-6783.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2013) Programs as causal models: speculations on mental programs and mental representation. Cognitive Science 37 (6), pp. 1171-1191. ISSN 0364-0213.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2013) Dynamic inference and everyday conditional reasoning in the new paradigm. Thinking and Reasoning 19 (3-4), pp. 346-379. ISSN 1354-6783.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2012) Dual processes, probabilities, and cognitive architecture. Mind & Society 11 (1), pp. 15-26. ISSN 1593-7879.

Tsetsos, Konstantinos and Chater, N. and Usher, Marius (2012) Salience driven value integration explains decision biases and preference reversal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (24), pp. 9659-9664. ISSN 0027-8424.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2011) The "is-ought fallacy" fallacy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (5), pp. 262-263. ISSN 0140-525X.

Nilufa, A. and Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2011) The mental representation of causal conditional reasoning: mental models or causal models. Cognition 119 (3), pp. 403-418. ISSN 0010-0277.

Chater, N. and Goodman, N. and Griffiths, T. and Kemp, C. and Oaksford, Mike and Tenenbaum, J. (2011) The imaginary fundamentalists: the unshocking truth about Bayesian cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (04), pp. 194-196. ISSN 0140-525X.

Tsetsos, K. and Usher, Marius and Chater, N. (2010) Preference reversal in multiattribute choice. Psychological Review 117 (4), pp. 1275-1293. ISSN 0033-295X.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike and Hahn, Ulrike and Heit, E. (2010) Bayesian models of cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 1 (6), pp. 811-823. ISSN 1939-5078.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2010) Human rationality and the psychology of reasoning: Where do we go from here? British Journal of Psychology 92 (1), pp. 193-216. ISSN 0007-1269.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2010) Causation and conditionals in the cognitive science of human reasoning. The Open Psychology Journal 3 , pp. 105-118. ISSN 1874-3501.

Usher, Marius and Tsetsos, Konstantinos and Chater, N. (2010) Postscript: contrasting predictions for preference reversal. Psychological Review 117 (4), pp. 1291-1293. ISSN 0033-295X.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2009) Local and global inferential relations: response to Over (2009). Thinking and Reasoning 15 (4), pp. 439-446. ISSN 1354-6783.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2009) Precis of Bayesian Rationality: the probabilistic approach to human reasoning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (1), pp. 69-84. ISSN 0140-525X.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2009) The uncertain reasoner: Bayes, logic, and rationality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (1), pp. 105-120. ISSN 0140-525X.

Hodgetts, C.J. and Hahn, Ulrike and Chater, N. (2009) Transformation and alignment in similarity. Cognition 113 (1), pp. 62-79. ISSN 0010-0277.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2003) Conditional probability and the cognitive science of conditional reasoning. Mind & Language 18 (4), pp. 359-379. ISSN 0268-1064.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2003) Optimal data selection: Revision, review, and reevaluation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 10 (2), pp. 289-318. ISSN 1069-9384.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike and Nakisa, R. and Redington, M. (2003) Fast, frugal, and rational: How rational norms explain behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 90 (1), pp. 63-86. ISSN 0749-5978.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2003) Computational levels and conditional inference: reply to Schroyens and Schaeken. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 29 (1), pp. 150-156. ISSN 0278-7393.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2003) Modeling probabilistic effects in conditional inference: Validating search or conditional probability. Revista Psychologica 32 , pp. 217-242. ISSN 1647-8606.

Oaksford, Mike and Roberts, L. and Chater, N. (2002) Relative informativeness of quantifiers used in syllogistic reasoning. Memory & Cognition 30 (1), pp. 138-149. ISSN 0090-502X.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2001) The probabilistic approach to human reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 5 (8), pp. 349-357. ISSN 1364-6613.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2000) The rational analysis of mind and behavior. Synthese 122 (1/2), pp. 93-131. ISSN 0039-7857.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. and Larkin, J. (2000) Probabilities and polarity biases in conditional inference. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 26 (4), pp. 883-899. ISSN 0278-7393.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (1999) The probability heuristics model of syllogistic reasoning. Cognitive Psychology 38 (2), pp. 191-258. ISSN 0010-0285.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (1999) Ten years of the rational analysis of cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3 (2), pp. 57-65. ISSN 1364-6613.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (1999) Information gain and decision-theoretic approaches to data selection: response to Klauer (1999). Psychological Review 106 (1), pp. 223-227. ISSN 0033-295X.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. and Grainger, B. (1999) Probabilistic effects in data selection. Thinking and Reasoning 5 (3), pp. 193-243. ISSN 1354-6783.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. and Grainger, B. and Larkin, J. (1997) Optimal data selection in the reduced array selection task (RAST). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 23 (2), pp. 441-458. ISSN 0278-7393.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (1996) Deontic reasoning, modules and innateness: a second look. Mind & Language 11 (2), pp. 191-202. ISSN 0268-1064.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (1996) Rational explanation of the selection task. Psychological Review 103 (2), pp. 381-391. ISSN 0033-295X.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (1995) Theories of reasoning and the computational explanation of everyday inference. Thinking and Reasoning 1 (2), pp. 121-152. ISSN 1354-6783.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (1995) Two and three stage models of deontic reasoning. Thinking and Reasoning 1 (4), pp. 350-357. ISSN 1354-6783.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (1994) A rational analysis of the selection task as optimal data selection. Psychological Review 101 (4), pp. 608-631. ISSN 0033-295X.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (1994) Another look at eliminative and enumerative behaviour in a conceptual task. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 6 (2), pp. 149-169. ISSN 0954-1446.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (1993) Logicism, mental models and everyday reasoning: reply to Garnham. Mind & Language 8 (1), pp. 72-89. ISSN 0268-1064.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (1993) Holism and eclecticism in the theory of concepts. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology 5 (2), pp. 173-182. ISSN 0954-1446.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (1992) Bounded rationality in taking risks and drawing inferences. Theory & Psychology 2 (2), pp. 225-230. ISSN 0959-3543.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (1991) Against Logicist Cognitive Science. Mind & Language 6 (1), pp. 1-38. ISSN 0268-1064.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (1990) Autonomy, implementation and cognitive architecture: A reply to Fodor and Pylyshyn. Cognition 34 (1), pp. 93-107. ISSN 0010-0277.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. and Stenning, K. (1990) Connectionism, classical cognitive science and experimental psychology. AI & Society 4 (1), pp. 73-90. ISSN 0951-5666.

Book Section

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2021) Bayesian rationality in the psychology of reasoning. In: Knauff, M. and Spohn, W. (eds.) Handbook of Rationality. Cambridge, U.S.: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262045070. (In Press)

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2021) Reasoning and argumentation. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190236557.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2020) Integrating Causal Bayes Nets and inferentialism in conditional inference. In: Elqayam, S. and Douven, I. and St B T Evans, J. and Cruz, Nicole (eds.) Logic and Uncertainty in the Human Mind: A Tribute to David E. Over. Routledge. ISBN 9781138084254. (In Press)

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2017) Probabilities and Bayesian Rationality. In: Ball, L.J. and Thompson, V.A. (eds.) International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. Routledge International Handbooks. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138849303.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2017) Causal Models and Conditional Reasoning. In: Waldmann, M. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning. Oxford Library of Psychology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199399550.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2016) Dynamic inference and everyday conditional reasoning in the new paradigm. In: Elqayam, S. and Bonnefon, J.-F. and Over, D.E. (eds.) New Paradigm Psychology of Reasoning: Basic and applied perspectives. Hove, UK: Psychology Press, pp. 101-133. ISBN 9781138673465.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2012) Normative systems: logic, probability, and rational choice. In: Holyoak, K. and Morrison, R. (eds.) The Oxford handbook of thinking and reasoning. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 11-21. ISBN 9780199313792.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. and Stewart, N. (2012) Reasoning and decision making. In: Frankish, K. and Ramsey, W. (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 131-150. ISBN 9780521691901.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike and Hahn, Ulrike and Heit, E. (2011) Inductive logic and empirical psychology. In: Gabbay, D.M. and Hartmann, S. and Woods, J. (eds.) Inductive Logic. Handbook of the History of Logic 10. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier, pp. 549-620. ISBN 9780444529367.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2010) Dual systems and dual processes but a single function. In: Manktelow, K. and Over, D. and Elqayam, S. (eds.) The Science of Reason: A Festschrift for Jonathan St. BT Evans. Psychology Press Festschrifts. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. ISBN 9781848720152.

Ali, N. and Schlottman, A. and Shaw, A. and Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2010) Causal discounting and conditional reasoning in children. In: Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (eds.) Cognition and Conditionals: Probability and Logic in Human Thinking. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 117-134. ISBN 9780199233298.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2010) Cognition and conditionals: an introduction. In: Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (eds.) Cognition and Conditionals: Probability and Logic in Human Thinking. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-36. ISBN 9780199233298.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2010) Conditional inference and constraint satisfaction: reconciling mental models and the probabilistic approach? In: Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (eds.) Cognition and Conditionals: Probability and Logic in Human Thinking. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 309-334. ISBN 9780199233298.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2010) Open issues in the cognitive science of conditionals. In: Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (eds.) Cognition and Conditionals: Probability and Logic in Human Thinking. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 389-402. ISBN 9780199233298.

Hodgetts, C. and Hahn, Ulrike and Chater, N. (2009) Transformations and asymmetry. In: Taatgen, N. and van Rijn, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2968-2973. ISBN 9780976831853.

Hodgetts, C. and Hahn, Ulrike and Chater, N. (2009) The role of transformations and structure in the same-different paradigm. In: Taatgen, N. and van Rijn, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1400-1405. ISBN 9780976831853.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. and Hahn, Ulrike (2008) Human reasoning and argumentation: the probabilistic approach. In: Adler, J.E. and Rips, L.J. (eds.) Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and its Foundations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 383-413. ISBN 9780521612746.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2008) Conclusion: where next? In: Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (eds.) The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian cognitive science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 497-510. ISBN 9780199216093.

Hahn, Ulrike and Oaksford, Mike (2008) Inference from absence in language and thought. In: Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (eds.) The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian cognitive science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 121-142. ISBN 9780199216093.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2008) Probability logic and the 'Modus Ponens - Modus Tollens' asymmetry. In: Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (eds.) The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian cognitive science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 97-120. ISBN 9780199216093.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2008) The probabilistic mind: prospects for a Bayesian cognitive science. In: Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (eds.) The Probabilistic Mind: Prospects for Bayesian cognitive science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 3-31. ISBN 9780199216093.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2006) Mental mechanisms: speculations on human causal learning and reasoning. In: Fiedler, K. and Juslin, P. (eds.) Information Sampling and Adaptive Cognition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 210-236. ISBN 9780521539333.

Chater, N. and Heit, E. and Oaksford, Mike (2005) Reasoning. In: Lamberts, K. and Goldstone, R. (eds.) Handbook of Cognition. London, UK: Sage, pp. 297-320. ISBN 9780761972778.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2004) Rationality, rational analysis and human reasoning. In: Manktelow, K. and Chung, M.C. (eds.) Psychology of Reasoning: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives. Hove, UK: Psychology Press, pp. 43-74. ISBN 9781841693101.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2003) Probabilities and pragmatics in conditional inference: suppression and order effects. In: Hardman, D. and Macchi, L. (eds.) Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making. Wiley, pp. 95-122. ISBN 9780471494577.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2003) Rational models of cognition. In: Nadel, L. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Nature Publishing Group, pp. 826-829. ISBN 9780333792612.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike (2002) The rational analysis of human cognition. In: Bermúdez, J.L. and Millar, A. (eds.) Reason and Nature: Essays in the Theory of Rationality. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 135-174. ISBN 9780199256839.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2002) Commonsense reasoning, logic, and human rationality. In: Elio, R. (ed.) Common Sense, Reasoning, and Rationality. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 174-214. ISBN 9780195147667.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (1998) An introduction to rational models of cognition. In: Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (eds.) Rational Models of Cognition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9780198524151.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (1998) A revised rational analysis of the selection task: exceptions and sequential sampling. In: Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (eds.) Rational Models of Cognition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 372-398. ISBN 9780198524151.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (1994) The probabilistic retreat from biases: implications for man-machine communication. In: Brouwer-Janse, M.D. and Harrington, T.L. (eds.) Human-Machine Communication for Educational Systems Design. Nato ASI Subseries F 129. Berlin, Germany: Springer, pp. 47-60. ISBN 9783642851063.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. and Stenning, K. (1992) Connectionism, classical cognitive science and experimental psychology. In: Clark, A. and Lutz, R. (eds.) Connectionism in Context. Artificial Intelligence and Society. Springer, pp. 57-74. ISBN 9783540197164.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike The falsity of folk theories: implications for psychology and philosophy. In: O'Donohue, W. and Kitchener, R. (eds.) The Philosophy of Psychology. London, UK: Sage, pp. 244-256. ISBN 9780761953050.

Book

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N., eds. (2010) Cognition and conditionals: probability and logic in human thinking. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199233298.

Chater, N. and Oaksford, Mike, eds. (2008) The probabilistic mind: prospects for Bayesian cognitive science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199216093.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (2007) Bayesian rationality: the probabilistic approach to human reasoning. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198524496.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N., eds. (1998) Rational models of cognition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198524151.

Oaksford, Mike and Chater, N. (1998) Rationality in an uncertain world: essays in the cognitive science Of human understanding. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. ISBN 9780863775345.