Books

Rips, L. J. (in press). Taking Shape: Mental Concepts of Physical Objects. Oxford University Press.

Rips, L. J. (2011). Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology. Oxford University Press.

Adler, J. E., & Rips, L. J. (eds.) (2008). Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and its Foundations. Cambridge University Press.

Tourangeau, R., Rips, L. J., & Rasinski, K. (2000). The Psychology of Survey Response. Cambridge University Press.

Sloman, S. A., & Rips, L. J. (eds.) (1998). Similarity and Symbols in Human Thought. MIT Press.

Rips, L. J. (1994). The Psychology of Proof: Deduction in Human Thinking. MIT Press.

Recent Articles and Chapters

De Freitas, J., & Rips, L. J. (in press). Is personal identity intransitive. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Salomon-Amend, M. M., & Rips, L. J. (2023). How do we regard fictional people? How do they regard us? Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02317-y

Cariani, F., & Rips, L. J. (2023). Experimenting with (conditional) perfection. In S. Kaufmann, D. Over, & G. Sharma (Eds.), Conditionals: Logic, Semantics, Psychology (pp. 235-274). Palgrave Macmillan.

Rips, L. J. (2020). Possible objects: Topological approaches to individuation. Cognitive Science, 44(11).

Rips, L. J., & Hespos, S. J. (2019). Concepts of objects and substances in language. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, 1238-1256.

Rips, L. J., & Leonard, N. (2019). Does the identity of an object depend on its category? The role of sortals in thought. In A. Goldman & B. McLaughlin (Eds.), Metaphysics and cognitive science. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Asmuth, J., Morson, E., & Rips, L. J. (2018). Children’s understanding of the natural numbers’ structure. Cognitive Science, 42, 1945-1973.

Wellwood, A., Hespos, S. J., & Rips, L. J. (2018). The object : substance :: event : process analogy. In J. Knobe, T. Lombrozo, & S. Nichols (Eds). Oxford studies in experimental philosophy (vol. 2, pp. 183-212). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Anderson, E. M., Hespos, S. J., & Rips, L. J. (2018). Five-month-old infants have expectations for the accumulation of nonsolid substances. Cognition, 175, 1-10. 

Rips, L. J. (2017). Core cognition and its aftermath. Philosophical Topics, 45, 157-179.

Dink, J. W., & Rips, L. J. (2017). Folk teleology and its implications. In D. Rose (Ed.), Experimental metaphysics (pp. 207-236). London: Bloomsbury Press.

Cariani, F., & Rips, L. J. (2017). Conditionals, context, and the suppression effect. Cognitive Science, 41, 540-589.

Hespos, S. J., Ferry, A. L., Anderson, E. M., Hollenbeck, E. N., & Rips, L. J. (2016). Five-month-old infants have general knowledge of how nonsolid substances behave and interact. Psychological Science, 27, 244-256.

Rips, L. J., & Hespos, S. J. (2015). Divisions of the physical world: Concepts of objects and substances. Psychological Bulletin, 141, 786-811.

Rips, L. J. (2015). Beliefs about the nature of number. In E. Davis & P. Davis (Eds.), Mathematics, substance and surmise (pp. 321-345). Berlin: Springer.

Leonard, N., & Rips, L. J. (2015). Identifying and counting objects: The role of sortal concepts. Cognition, 145, 89-103.

Johnson, S. G. B., & Rips, L. J. (2015). Do the right thing: The assumption of optimality in lay decision theory and causal judgment. Cognitive Psychology, 77, 42-76.

Sagi, E., & Rips, L. J. (2014). Identity, causality, and pronoun ambiguity. Topics in Cognitive Science, 6, 663-680.

Rips, L. J., & Thompson, S. (2014). Possible number systems. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience,  14, 3-23.

Rips, L. J. (2013). How many is a zillion? Sources of number distortion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39, 1257-1264.

Rips, L. J., & Edwards, B. J. (2013). Inference and explanation in counterfactual reasoning. Cognitive Science, 37, 1107-1135.

Rips, L. J., Asmuth, J., & Bloomfield, A. (2013). Can statistical learning bootstrap the integers? A response to Piantadosi, Tenenbaum, and Goodman. Cognition, 128, 320-330.

Hespos, S. J., Dora, B., Rips, L. J., & Christie, S. (2012). Infants make quantity discriminations for substances. Child Development, 83, 554-567.

Rips, L. J. (2011). Split identity: Intransitive judgments of the identity of objects. Cognition, 119. 356-373.

Rips, L. J. (2011). Causation from perception. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 77-97.

Bartels, D. M., & Rips, L. J. (2010). Psychological connectedness and intertemporal choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139, 49-69.

Rips, L. J. (2010). Two causal theories of counterfactual conditionals. Cognitive Science, 34, 175-221.

Hespos, S. J., Ferry, A. L., & Rips, L. J. (2009). Five-month-olds have different expectations for solids and liquids. Psychological Science, 20, 603-611.

Rips, L. J., Bloomfield, A., & Asmuth, J. (2008). From numerical concepts to concepts of number. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 623-687.

Rips, L. J. (2008). Causal thinking. In J. E. Adler & L. J. Rips (Eds.),Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and Its Foundation.Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Rips, L. J., Asmuth, J., & Bloomfield, A. (2008). Do children learn the integers by induction? Cognition, 106, 940-951.

Blok, S. V., Newman, G. E., & Rips, L. J. (2007). Out of sorts? Remedies for theories of object concepts. Psychological Review, 114, 1096-1102.

Rips, L. J., & Asmuth, J. (2007). Mathematical induction and induction in mathematics. In A. Feeney & E. Heit (Eds.), Induction (pp. 248-268). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Rips, L. J., Asmuth, J., & Bloomfield, A. (2006). Giving the boot to the bootstrap: How not to learn about the natural numbers. Cognition, 101, B51-B60.

Rips, L. J., Blok, S., & Newman, G. (2006). Tracing the identity of objects. Psychological Review, 113, 1-30.

Blok, S., Newman, G., & Rips, L. J. (2005). Individuals and their concepts. In W-k. Ahn, R. L. Goldstone, B. C. Love, A. B. Markman, & P. Wolff (Eds.), Categorization inside and outside the lab (pp. 127-149). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Rips, L. J., Conrad, F. G., & Fricker, S. S. (2003). Straightening the seam effect in panel surveys. Public Opinion Quarterly, 67, 522-554.

Rips, L. J. (2002). Circular reasoning. Cognitive Science, 26, 767-795.

Rips, L. J. (2001). Necessity and natural concepts. Psychological Bulletin, 127, 827-852.

Rips, L. J. (2001). Two kinds of reasoning. Psychological Science, 12,129-134.

Brem, S. K., & Rips, L. J. (2000). Evidence and explanation in informal argument. Cognitive Science, 24, 573-604.

Rips, L. J. (2000). The cognitive nature of instantiation. Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 20-43.