Ruth M.J. Byrne

Ruth M.J. Byrne

Trinity College

H-index: 49

North America-United States

About Ruth M.J. Byrne

Ruth M.J. Byrne, With an exceptional h-index of 49 and a recent h-index of 27 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Trinity College, specializes in the field of Cognitive Science, Reasoning, Imagination.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

How people think about the truth of hypothetical impossibilities

Categorical and continuous features in counterfactual explanations of AI systems

Human verifications: Computable with truth values outside logic

Good Explanations in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Evidence from Human Explanatory Reasoning

How people reason with counterfactual and causal explanations for artificial intelligence decisions in familiar and unfamiliar domains

How people think about possibilities

How People Think about Moral Excellence

Similarities and differences in understanding negative and affirmative counterfactuals and causal assertions: Evidence from eye-tracking

Ruth M.J. Byrne Information

University

Position

Professor of Cognitive Science

Citations(all)

15357

Citations(since 2020)

3751

Cited By

12677

hIndex(all)

49

hIndex(since 2020)

27

i10Index(all)

106

i10Index(since 2020)

55

Email

University Profile Page

Trinity College

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Ruth M.J. Byrne Skills & Research Interests

Cognitive Science

Reasoning

Imagination

Top articles of Ruth M.J. Byrne

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

How people think about the truth of hypothetical impossibilities

Memory & Cognition

Ruth MJ Byrne

2024/1

Categorical and continuous features in counterfactual explanations of AI systems

Greta Warren

Ruth M J Byrne

Mark T Keane

2023/3

Human verifications: Computable with truth values outside logic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Philip N Johnson-Laird

Ruth MJ Byrne

Sangeet S Khemlani

2023/10/3

Good Explanations in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Evidence from Human Explanatory Reasoning

Ruth M.J. Byrne

2023

How people reason with counterfactual and causal explanations for artificial intelligence decisions in familiar and unfamiliar domains

Memory & Cognition

Lenart Celar

Ruth MJ Byrne

2023/10

How people think about possibilities

Possibility Studies & Society

Ruth MJ Byrne

2023/6

How People Think about Moral Excellence

Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Action

Shane Timmons

Ruth MJ Byrne

2023/4/20

Similarities and differences in understanding negative and affirmative counterfactuals and causal assertions: Evidence from eye-tracking

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Isabel Orenes

Orlando Espino

Ruth MJ Byrne

2022/4

Counterfactual explanations for prediction and diagnosis in XAI

Xinyue Dai

Mark T Keane

Laurence Shalloo

Elodie Ruelle

Ruth MJ Byrne

2022/7/26

Cognitive processes in imaginative moral shifts: How judgments of morally unacceptable actions change

Memory & cognition

Beyza Tepe

Ruth MJ Byrne

2022/7

“If only” counterfactual thoughts about cooperative and uncooperative decisions in social dilemmas

Thinking & Reasoning

Stefania Pighin

Ruth MJ Byrne

Katya Tentori

2022/4/3

Conditional and Counterfactual Reasoning

The Handbook of Rationality

Ruth MJ Byrne

Orlando Espino

2021/12/14

How people keep track of what is real and what is imagined: The epistemic status of counterfactual alternatives to reality.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Orlando Espino

Ruth MJ Byrne

2021/4

Imagined alternatives to episodic memories of morally good acts

The Journal of Positive Psychology

Shane Timmons

Eoin Gubbins

Tiago Almeida

Ruth MJ Byrne

2021/3/4

If and or: Real and counterfactual possibilities in their truth and probability.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Ruth MJ Byrne

Philip N Johnson-Laird

2020/4

The counterfactual imagination: The impact of alternatives to reality on morality.

Ruth MJ Byrne

2020

Possibilities and the parallel meanings of factual and counterfactual conditionals

Memory & Cognition

Orlando Espino

Ruth MJ Byrne

Philip N Johnson-Laird

2020/10

The suppression of inferences from counterfactual conditionals

Cognitive science

Orlando Espino

Ruth MJ Byrne

2020/4

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Co-Authors

H-index: 105
Philip Johnson-Laird

Philip Johnson-Laird

Princeton University

H-index: 58
Mark T Keane

Mark T Keane

University College Dublin

H-index: 47
Simon Handley

Simon Handley

Macquarie University

H-index: 45
Valerie A Thompson

Valerie A Thompson

University of Saskatchewan

H-index: 31
Walter Schaeken

Walter Schaeken

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

H-index: 17
Clare Walsh

Clare Walsh

University of Plymouth

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