School of Psychology

Full List of Publications

Forthcoming

Hahn, U. & Oaksford, M. (in prep.) The Fallacies. Contracted by Oxford University Press.

Jarvstad, A, Rushton, S., Warren, P. & Hahn, U. (in press) Knowing When to Move On: Cognitive and Perceptual Decisions in Time. Psychological Science.

Hahn, U. & Oaksford, M. (in press). Rational Argument. In, Morrison and Holyoak (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning.

Hahn, U. (in press) The Gambler's Fallacy. Oxford Bibliographies Online.

Pothos, E.M. Perlman, A. & Hahn, U (in press) Further attempts to clarify the importance of category variability for categorization. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. Hahn, U. (in press). Why rational norms are indispensible. Commentary on Elqayam and Evans. Behavioral and Brains Sciences.

2011

Harris, A.J.L. & Hahn, U. (2011). Unrealistic optimism about future life events: A cautionary note. Psychological Review, 118, 135-154.

Corner, A.J., Hahn, U. & Oaksford, M. (2011). The psychological mechanism of the slippery slope argument. Journal of Memory and Language, 64, 153-170.

Hahn, U. (2011) Circularity in argument, explanation, and evidence. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 172-182.

Jarvstad, A. & Hahn, U. (2011) Source reliability and the conjunction fallacy. Cognitive Science, 35, 682-711.

2010

Hahn, U. and Warren, P.A. (2010). Why three heads are a better bet than four: A reply to Sun, Tweney and Wang. Psychological Review, 117, 706-711.

Hahn, U. and Warren, P.A. (2010). Postscript: All together now: “Three heads are better than four”. Psychological Review, 117, 711.

Hahn, U., Prat-Sala, M., Pothos, E.M. & Brumby, D.P. (2010) Exemplar similarity and rule application. Cognition, 114, 1-18. [pdf]

Corner, A.J. & Hahn, U. (2010) Message Framing, Normative Advocacy & Persuasive Success. Argumentation, 24, 153-163.

Pothos, E.M., Hahn, U. & Prat-Sala, M. (2010) Contingent necessity vs. logical necessity in categorization. Thinking & Reasoning, 16, 45-64.

Close, J., Hahn, U., Hodgetts, C. & Pothos, E.M. (2010) Rules versus similarity in concept learning, In, D. Mareschal, P.C. Quinn & S. Lea (eds.) The making of human concepts. Oxford University Press.
Chater, N., Oaksford, M., Heit, E., & Hahn, U. (2010). Inductive logic and empirical psychology. In S. Hartmann, & J. Woods (Eds.), The Handbook of Philosophical Logic (Volume 10), Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Close, J., Hahn, U. & Honey, R. (2010) The Influence of Within-Category Structure on Stimulus Similarity and Stimulus Generalization. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Corner, A.J., Harris, A.J.L. & Hahn, U. (2010) Conservatism in Belief Revision and Participant Skepticism. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

2009

Hahn, U. & Warren, P.A. (2009) Perceptions of randomness: Why three heads are better than four. Psychological Review. 116, 454-461.  [pdf]

Pothos, E.M., Hahn, U. & Prat-Sala, M. (2009) Similarity chains in the transformational paradigm. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29, 1100-1120.

Hodgetts, C.J., Hahn, U. & Chater, N. (2009) Transformation and alignment in similarity. Cognition, 113, 62-79.  [pdf]

Harris, A.J.L. & Hahn, U. (2009) Bayesian rationality in evaluating multiple testimonies: Incorporating the role of coherence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 35, 1366-73.

Maio, G.R., Hahn, U., Frost, J.-M. & Cheung, W.-Y. (2009) Applying the Value of Equality Unequally: Effects of Value Instantiations that Vary in Typicality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 598-614.

Close, J., Hahn, U. & Honey, R. (2009) Contextual modulation of stimulus generalization in rats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, 509-515.

Hahn, U., Harris, A.J.L., & Corner, A.J. (2009). Argument Content and Argument Source: An Exploration. Informal Logic, 29, 337-367.

Corner, A.J. & Hahn, U. (2009) Evaluating Science Arguments: Evidence, Uncertainty & Argument Strength. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 15, 199-212.

Hahn, U., Close, J. & Graf, M. (2009) Transformation direction influences shape similarity judgments. Psychological Science, 20, 447-454.  [pdf]

Harris, A.J.L., Corner, A. & Hahn, U. (2009) Estimating the Probability of Negative Events. Cognition, 10, 51-64. [pdf]

Hahn, U, (2009) Explaining more by drawing on less. Commentary on Oaksford, M. & Chater, N. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 90-91.

Walsh, C.R., DeGregorio, L. & Hahn, U. (2009) Severe Outcomes and their Influence on Judgments of Causation. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Harris, A.J., Corner, A.J. & Hahn, U. (2009) "Damned by Faint Praise": A Bayesian account. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Jarvstad, A. & Hahn, U. (2009) Unreliable sources and the conjunction fallacy. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Hodgetts, C. , Hahn, U. & Chater, N. (2009) Transformations and Asymmetry. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Hodgetts, C. , Hahn, U. & Chater, N. (2009) The role of transformations and structure in the same-different paradigm. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

2008

Hahn, U. & Oaksford, M. (2008) Inference from absence in language and thought. In , N. Chater and M. Oaksford (eds.) The Probabilistic Mind. Oxford University Press.

Oaksford, M., Chater, N., & Hahn, U. (2008). Human reasoning and argumentation: The probabilistic approach. In J. Adler, & L. Rips (Eds.), Reasoning: Studies of human inference and its foundations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2007

Hahn, U. & Oaksford, M. (2007) The Rationality of Informal Argumentation: A Bayesian Approach to Reasoning Fallacies. Psychological Review, 114, 704-732. [pdf]

Hahn, U. & Oaksford, M. (2007). The burden of proof and its role in argumentation. Argumentation.21, 39-61.

Prat-Sala, M. & Hahn, U. (2007) Catalan children’s sensitivity to the discourse constraints imposed by different kinds of questions. Language Learning, 57, 443-467.

Corner, A. & Hahn, U. (2007). Evaluating the Meta-Slope: Is there a Slippery Slope Argument against Slippery Slope Arguments? Argumentation, 21, 349-359.

Oaksford, M. & Hahn U. (2007) Induction, Deduction and Argument Strength in Human Reasoning and Argumentation. In A., Feeney & E., Heit (Eds.) Inductive reasoning. Cambridge University Press.

Brumby, D.P. & Hahn, U. (2007). Rules and Exemplars in Categorization: A Computational Exploration. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Harris, A., Corner, A. & Hahn, U. (2007). Estimating the probability of negative events. In S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser, & A. Protopapas (Eds.), Proceedings of EuroCogSci07: The European Cognitive Science Conference (pp. 353-358). Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

2006

Hahn, U. & Oaksford, M. (2006) Why a normative theory of argument strength and why might one want it to be Bayesian? Informal Logic, 26,1-24.

Oaksford, M. & Hahn, U. (2006). Non-monotonicity and Informal Reasoning: Comment on Ferguson (2003). Argumentation, 20, 245-251.

Hahn, U. & Oaksford, M. (2006) A Bayesian Approach to Informal Reasoning Fallacies. Synthese, 152, 207-23.

Corner, A., Hahn, U. & Oakfsord, M. (2006) The Slippery Slope Argument – Probability, Utility & Category Reappraisal. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

2005

Bailey, T.M & Hahn, U. (2005) Phoneme similarity and confusability. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 339-362.

Hahn, U. & Bailey, T.M. (2005) What makes words sound similar. Cognition, 97, 227-267. [pdf]

Hahn, U., Bailey, T.M., Elvin, L.B.C. (2005) Effects of category coherence on category learning, memory, and generalization. Memory & Cognition, 33, 289-302.

Hahn, U., Frost, J.M., Maio, G.R. (2005) What’s in a heuristic. Commentary on Sunstein, C. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 551-552.

Hahn, U. (2005) Is this what the debate on rules was about? Commentary on Pothos, E. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 45-46.

Hahn, U., Oaksford, M. & Bayindir, H. (2005) How convinced should we be by negative evidence? Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Hahn, U., Oaksford, M. & Corner, A. (2005) Circular arguments, begging the question and the formalization of argument strength. Proceedings of AMKCL05 –Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Helsinki.

2004

Oaksford, M., & Hahn, U. (2004). A Bayesian approach to the argument from ignorance. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58, 121-131.

Heit, E.  Hahn, U. & Feeney, A. (2004) Defending Diversity. In W. Ahn, R. L. Goldstone, B. C. Love, A. B.  Markman, & P. Wolff, (Eds.), Categorization inside and outside of the lab: Festschrift in honor of Douglas L. Medin. APA Press.

Hahn, U. (2004) Review of ‘The Verdict of the Court: Passing Judgment in Law and Psychology by Jenny McEwan’. Journal of Law and Society, 31, 629-632.

Hahn, U. (2004) Review of Dietrich & Markman “Cognitive  dynamics: Conceptual and representational change in humans and machines.  European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 16, 473-475.

2003

Hahn, U., Chater, N., & Richardson, L.B.C. (2003).  Similarity as Transformation. Cognition, 87, 1-32. [pdf]

Hahn, U. (2003) Information, Information Transfer  and Information Processing. Commentary on Shanker & King: The  emergence of a new paradigm in ape language research. Behavioral  and Brain Sciences, 626-627.

2002

Hahn, U. and Heit, E. (2002). Semantic Similarity.  International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Elsevier.

Hahn, U. (2002). Rule-based Thought. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. MacMillan.

Hahn, U. (2002). Similarity. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. MacMillan.

Hahn, U. and Greenhow, J. (2002). Kategorisierung: Exemplar- vs. Prototypen-Modelle. In, D. Janetzko, M. Hildebrandt & H.A. Meyer (eds.) Das Experimental-psychologische Praktikum im Labor und WWW. Hogrefe

Nakisa, R.C., Plunkett, K., & Hahn, U. (2000). A Cross-linguistic Comparison of Single and Dual-Route Models of Inflectional Morphology. In P. Broeder, & J. Murre (Eds.), Cognitive Models of Language Acquisition. Oxford University Press.

Hahn, U., Prat-Sala, M., & Pothos, E. (2002). How Similarity Affects the Ease of Rule Application. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

2001

Heit, E. & Hahn, U. (2001). Diversity based reasoning in children. Cognitive Psychology, 43, 243-273. [pdf]

Bailey, T.M., & Hahn, U. (2001). Determinants of wordlikeness: Phonotactics or lexical neighbourhoods? Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 568-591.

Hahn, U., & Ramscar, M. (Eds.) (2001).  Similarity and Categorization. Oxford University Press.

Hahn, U., Chater, N., & Richardson, L.B. (2001). Similarity: A transformational approach. In Proceedings of the 23 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

2000

Hahn, U., & Nakisa, R.C. (2000). German Inflection: Single or Dual Route? Cognitive Psychology, 41, 313-360.

Pothos, E., & Hahn, U. (2000). So concepts aren't definitions, but do they have necessary *or* sufficient features? British Journal of Psychology, 91, 439-450.

1999

Hahn, U. (1999). Language Acquisition Also Needs Non-Connectionist Models. Journal of Child Language 26, 245-248.

Hahn, U. (1999). The dual-route account of German - Where it's not a schema theory it's probably wrong. Open peer commentary on Clahsen, H. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 22, 1024.

Heit, E. and Hahn, U. (1999) Diversity-Based Reasoning in Children Age 5 to 8.Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahawah, NJ: Erlbaum.

1998

Hahn, U., & Chater, N. (1998). Similarity and Rules: Distinct? Exhaustive? Empirically Distinguishable? Cognition, 65, 197-230.

Hahn, U., & Chater, N. (1998). Understanding Similarity: a Joint Project for Psychology, Case-Based Reasoning and Law. Artificial Intelligence Review, 12, 393-427.

Hahn, U., & Chater, N. (1998). Real-world categories don't allow uniform feature spaces - not just across categories but within categories also. Open peer commentary on Schyns, P.G., Goldstone, R.L., & Thibaut, J. The development of features in object concepts. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 21 (1), 28.

 Hahn, U., & Chater, N. (1998). The notion of distal similarity is ill-defined. Open peer commentary on Edelman, S. Representation is representation of similarities.  Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 21, 474.

Chater, N., & Hahn, U. (1998). What *is* the dynamical hypothesis? Open peer commentary on van Gelder, T. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 21, 633.

Ramscar, M.J.A. and Hahn, U. (1998). Wittgenstein and the onotological status of analogy. In Holyoak, K, Gentner, D and Kokinov, B (eds.) Advances in Analogy Research , New Bulgarian University Press, Sofia, Bulgaria, pp 390-402.

Hahn, U., Nakisa, R.C., Bailey, T.M., Holmes, M., Kemp, D. and Palmer, L. (1998) Experimental Evidence Against the Dual-Route Account of Inflectional Morphology. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Bailey, T.M and Hahn, U. (1998).  Determinants of Wordlikeness. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Ramscar, M. and Hahn, U. (1998). What family resemblances are not: The continuing relevance of Wittgenstein to the study of concepts and categories. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Hahn, U., and Chater, N. (1998) On following rules: When is behavior rule-guided. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

1997

Hahn, U., & Vogel, C. (1997). Notes on Logicism: Formalization and Legal Knowledge.  European Journal of Law, Philosophy and Computer Science, 1, 331-344.

Hahn, U., & Chater, N. (1997). Concepts and Similarity. In K. Lamberts and D. Shanks (Eds.), Knowledge, Concepts and Categories (pp. 43-92). Hove, Psychology Press: MIT Press.

Ramscar, M., Hahn, U., Pain, H., & Cambouropoulos, C. (Eds.) (1997). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Similarity and Categorization, University of Edinburgh 1997. Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.

Ramscar, M., Hahn, U., Pain, H., Cambouropoulos, C. (1997) Editors: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Similarity and Categorization, University of Edinburgh 1997. Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.

Vogel, C., Collin, C. and Hahn, U. (1997) A Dynamic Semantics for Sense Extension. Veale, T. (ed.) MIND II: Computational Models of Creative Computation.

Chater, N. and Hahn, U. (1997) Representational Distortion, Similarity and the Universal Law of Generalization. Proceedings of the International Interdisciplinary Workshop on Similarity and Categorization. University of Edinburgh.

Hahn, U., Nakisa, R. and Plunkett, K. (1997). The Dual-Route Model of the English Past Tense: Another case where defaults don't help. Proceedings of the GALA97 Conference on Language Acquisition, University of Edinburgh.

1996

Nakisa, R.C. and Hahn, U. (1996). Where Defaults Don't Help: the case of the German Plural System. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, San Diego.

Hahn, U., Chater, N. and Henley, R. (1996). Weighting in Similarity Judgements: an investigation of the "MAX Hypothesis". Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, San Diego.

1995

Bankowski, Z., White, I., & Hahn, U. (1995) Introduction. In, Z. Bankowski, I. White & U. Hahn (eds.) Informatics and the Foundations of Legal Reasoning, Kluwer. pp. 1-72.

Bankowski, Z., White, I., & Hahn, U. (eds) (1995) Informatics and the Foundations of Legal Reasoning, Kluwer

Vogel, C. and Hahn, U. and Branigan, H. (1995) Cross-serial Dependencies Are Not Hard to Process. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Dublin. 

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