Our
Team

  • Zach Horne

    Lecturer in Psychology
    Papers
    Open Science Framework

  • Emily Line

    Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow (Co-Supervised by Chiara Bonacchi)

  • John Martindale

    Leverhulme Postdoctoral fellow (co-supervised by Chiara Bonacchi)

  • Artemis Deligianni

    PhD student in natural language processing

    Interests: Using NLP tools to understand social cognition, including sexism in online environments

  • Nicolas Navarre

    PhD student in natural language processing

    Interests: Models of causal cognition and causal language

  • Julie Pedersen

    PhD student in Psychology

    Interests: Models of moral psychology and group identity

  • Mert Kobas

    PhD student in developmental psychology
    New York University

    Interests: cognitive development, explanatory reasoning

  • Faisal Mohammad

    PhD in Psychology

    University of Oxford

  • Trisevgeni Papakonstantinou

    PhD student in experimental psychology
    University College London

    Interests: Attitude change, causal reasoning, NLP applications to social media data

Research

  • Explanatory reasoning and scientific explanation

    We study how novices and practicing scientists explain the unfamiliar to examine the cognitive constraints on scientific explanation.

  • Statistical reasoning

    We investigate how people reason about statistics and the impact of data visualizations on their thinking. We’re particularly interested in these effects when the statistics communicate risk-related information, such as information about medical trials.

  • Attitude change outside the lab

    We use large scale social media data to understand the mechanisms of persuasion in more naturalistic settings.

Collaborators

  • Alberto Acerbi

    Associate Professor in Sociology

    University of Trento

  • April Bailey

    Lecturer in Social Psychology

    University of Edinburgh

  • Chiara Bonacchi

    Chancellor's Fellow in Heritage, Text and Data Mining and Senior Lecturer

    University of Edinburgh

  • Andrei Cimpian

    Professor of Psychology
    New York University

  • Martin Corley

    Professor of Speech, Language, and Cognition

    University of Edinburgh

  • Micah Goldwater

    Associate Professor in Psychology
    University of Sydney

  • Robert McIntosh

    Professor of Psychology

    University of Edinburgh

  • Robert Neal

    Machine Learning Engineer

    Apple

  • Derek Powell

    Research scientist
    GoFundMe

  • Hilary Richardson

    Lecturer in Psychology

    University of Edinburgh

  • Josh Rottman

    Associate Professor of Psychology
    Franklin & Marshall College

  • Joni Rustulka

    Director of Product Design

    LaunchDarkly

Lab Alum

  • Jana Tomastikova

    Graduated in 2025

    MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience

    University of Cambridge

  • Joshua Hew

    Graduated in 2025

    MSc in Cognitive Psychology

    University College London