Welcome

Dear Dr. Verbal,

Welcome! I have created this online space to share with you (and others who may be interested) the implementations of the theoretical models that we developed together in our Dialogue 1 and Dialogue 4 in this paper.

You can browse the Table of Contents on the sidebar. Check out the different individual models and explore different parameter settings. You can also run the Scala code and perform some simulations. Have a look at the simulation results to better understand differences between the models and how you may be able to test and compare them empirically.

Sincerely, Dr. Formal.

License

This site is released under a CC-BY 4.0 license and the Scala software used herein is released under a UGN GPL v3 license or any later version. You are free to reuse, revise, and adapt this content, in whole or in part, as long as appropriate credit is given to its authors.

This site is created with Jekyll using the Jekyll-Hydeout theme released under an MIT license. The source code is available on Github here.

Main paper

van Rooij, I., & Blokpoel, M. (2020). Formalizing verbal theories: A tutorial by dialogue. Social Psychology 51(5), 285-298. 10.1027/1864-9335/a000428

About the authors

Iris van Rooij is a psychologist and cognitive scientist. Mark Blokpoel is a computer scientist and computational cognitive scientist.

Both authors are based at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University. Van Rooij and Blokpoel previously co-authored Cognition and Intractability with Johan Kwisthout and Todd Wareham. You can download Chapter 1 for free.

Acknowledgements

This work has been made possible by a Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship (DLF) awarded by NIAS and the Lorentz Center to Van Rooij and a Language in Interaction grant (nr. 024.001.006) supporting Blokpoel.