Experimental pragmatics, risk communication, and reasoning
Last updated on
Aug 11, 2022

This research programme focuses on the pragmatic processes involved in communicating uncertainties, quantities and risk as well as in logical reasoning. It includes experimental studies examining pragmatic influences on how people interpret verbal probabilities and quantifiers and how they draw inferences.
Social cognition
Conversational pragmatics
Judgement & Decision-making
Risk communication
Problem-solving
Reasoning

Fanni Szigetvari
PhD student & BeSci lab manager
I am a research associate within the TORR research project. As an aspiring Behavioural Scientist, I am interested in the psychology of human behaviour and decision-making, and in understanding people as they are, not as they ‘should be'.
Publications
Verbal probabilities are a common mean for communicating risk and uncertainties in many decision-making settings (e.g., finance, …
Marie Juanchich, Miroslav Sirota, Tzur M. Karelitz, Gaëlle Villejoubert
Accounts of the scalar inference from ‘some X-ed’ to ‘not all X-ed’ are central to the debate between contemporary theories of …
Jean-François Bonnefon, Aidan Feeney, Gaëlle Villejoubert
When a statement about the occurrence of a medical condition is qualified by an expression of probability, such as the word possible, …
Jean-François Bonnefon, Gaëlle Villejoubert
We argue that logical expressions in human language enable speakers to perform particular acts as well as stating propositions which …
Denis Hilton, Gaëlle Villejoubert, Jean-François Bonnefon