Journal Articles
Roulstone, A,
Morsanyi, K, Bahnmueller, J (2024)
Performance on curriculum-based mathematics assessments in developmental dyscalculia: the effect of content domain and question format,
Psychological Research, ISSN: 0340-0727. DOI:
10.1007/s00426-024-02015-x.
Morsanyi, K, Peters, J, Battaglia, E, Sasanguie, D, Reynvoet, B (2023)
The causal role of numerical and non-numerical order processing abilities in the early development of mathematics skills: evidence from an intervention study,
Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 6, 100144, DOI:
10.1016/j.crbeha.2023.100144.
O’Connor, PA,
Morsanyi, K, McCormack, T (2023)
Basic symbolic number skills, but not formal mathematics performance, longitudinally predict mathematics anxiety in the first years of primary school,
Journal of Intelligence, 11(11), 211, DOI:
10.3390/jintelligence11110211.
Ackerman, R and
Morsanyi, K (2023)
We know what stops you from thinking forever: A metacognitive perspective,
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e112, ISSN: 0140-525X. DOI:
10.1017/S0140525X22003065.
Morsanyi, K and Hamilton, J (2023)
The Development of Intuitive and Analytic Thinking in Autism: The Case of Cognitive Reflection,
Journal of Intelligence, 11(6), 124, DOI:
10.3390/jintelligence11060124.
Terry, J, Ross, RM, Nagy, T, Wege, T,
Morsanyi, K, Xenidou-Dervou, I, Bahnmueller, J (2023)
Data from an international multi-centre study of statistics and mathematics anxieties and related variables in university students (the SMARVUS dataset),
Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(1), pp.1-25, DOI:
10.5334/jopd.80.
Wong, TT-Y and
Morsanyi, K (2022)
The link between transitive reasoning and mathematics achievement in preadolescence: the role of relational processing and deductive reasoning,
Thinking and Reasoning, 29(4), pp.531-558, ISSN: 1354-6783. DOI:
10.1080/13546783.2022.2095031.
Morsanyi, K, Hamilton, J, Stamenković, D, Holyoak, K (2022)
Linking metaphor comprehension with analogical reasoning: Evidence from typical development and autism spectrum disorder,
British Journal of Psychology, 113(2), pp.479-495, ISSN: 0007-1269. DOI:
10.1111/bjop.12542.
Morsanyi, K and Stamenković, D (2021)
Idiom and proverb processing in autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis,
Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 5(3), pp.367-387, ISSN: 2520-100X. DOI:
10.1007/s41809-021-00079-4.
Tomasetto, C,
Morsanyi, K, Guardabassi, V, O’Connor, PA (2020)
Math anxiety interferes with learning novel mathematics contents in early elementary school,
Journal of Educational Psychology, 113(2), pp.315-329, ISSN: 0022-0663. DOI:
10.1037/edu0000602.
Morsanyi, K, Stamenković, D, Holyoak, KJ (2020)
Metaphor processing in autism: A systematic review and meta-analysis,
Developmental Review, 57, 100925, ISSN: 0273-2297. DOI:
10.1016/j.dr.2020.100925.
Morsanyi, K, van Bers, BMCW, O'Connor, PA, McCormack, T (2020)
The role of numerical and non-numerical ordering abilities in mathematics and reading in middle childhood,
Contemporary Educational Psychology, 62, 101895, ISSN: 0361-476X. DOI:
10.1016/j.cedpsych.2020.101895.
Primi, C, Donati, MA, Izzo, VA, Guardabassi, V, O’Connor, PA, Tomasetto, C,
Morsanyi, K (2020)
The Early Elementary School Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (the EES-AMAS): A New Adapted Version of the AMAS to Measure Math Anxiety in Young Children,
Frontiers in Psychology, 11, DOI:
10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01014.
Rolison, JJ,
Morsanyi, K, Peters, E (2020)
Understanding Health Risk Comprehension: The Role of Math Anxiety, Subjective Numeracy, and Objective Numeracy,
Medical Decision Making, 40(2), pp.222-234, ISSN: 0272-989X. DOI:
10.1177/0272989X20904725.
Donati, MA, Boncompagni, J, Scabia, A,
Morsanyi, K, Primi, C (2019)
Using the Adolescent Time Inventory—Time Attitudes (ATI-TA) to assess time attitudes in Italian adolescents and young adults: Psychometric properties and validity,
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 43(5), pp.424-435, ISSN: 0165-0254. DOI:
10.1177/0165025418797020.
Morsanyi, K, Cheallaigh, NN, Ackerman, R (2019)
Mathematics anxiety and metacognitive processes: Proposal for a new line of inquiry,
Psihologijske Teme, 28(1), pp.147-169, ISSN: 1332-0742. DOI:
10.31820/pt.28.1.8.
O'Connor, PA,
Morsanyi, K, McCormack, T (2019)
The Stability of Individual Differences in Basic Mathematics-Related Skills in Young Children at the Start of Formal Education,
Mind, Brain, and Education, 13(3), pp.234-244, ISSN: 1751-2271. DOI:
10.1111/mbe.12190.
Donati, MA, Sottili, E,
Morsanyi, K, Primi, C (2019)
Time perspectives and gambling in adolescent boys: Differential effects of present- and future-orientation,
Journal of Gambling Studies, 35(1), pp.107-124, ISSN: 1050-5350. DOI:
10.1007/s10899-018-9780-0.
Morsanyi, K, van Bers, BMCW, McCormack, T, McGourty, J (2018)
The prevalence of specific learning disorder in mathematics and comorbidity with other developmental disorders in primary school-age children,
British Journal of Psychology, 109(4), pp.917-940, ISSN: 0007-1269. DOI:
10.1111/bjop.12322.
Chiesi, F,
Morsanyi, K, Donati, MA, Primi, C (2018)
Applying item response theory to develop a shortened version of the need for cognition scale,
Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 14(3), pp.75-86, ISSN: 1895-1171. DOI:
10.5709/acp-0240-z.
Morsanyi, K, van Bers, BMCW, O’Connor, PA, McCormack, T (2018)
Developmental Dyscalculia is Characterized by Order Processing Deficits: Evidence from Numerical and Non-Numerical Ordering Tasks,
Developmental Neuropsychology, 43(7), pp.595-621, ISSN: 8756-5641. DOI:
10.1080/87565641.2018.1502294.
Morsanyi, K, McCormack, T, O'Mahony, E (2018)
The link between deductive reasoning and mathematics,
Thinking and Reasoning, 24(2), pp.234-257, ISSN: 1354-6783. DOI:
10.1080/13546783.2017.1384760.
Morsanyi, K, Prado, J, Richland, LE (2018)
Editorial: The role of reasoning in mathematical thinking,
Thinking and Reasoning, 24(2), pp.129-137, ISSN: 1354-6783. DOI:
10.1080/13546783.2018.1435425.
Primi, C, Donati, MA, Chiesi, F,
Morsanyi, K (2018)
Are there gender differences in cognitive reflection? Invariance and differences related to mathematics,
Thinking and Reasoning, 24(2), pp.258-279, ISSN: 1354-6783. DOI:
10.1080/13546783.2017.1387606.
O'Connor, PA,
Morsanyi, K, McCormack, T (2018)
Young children's non‐numerical ordering ability at the start of formal education longitudinally predicts their symbolic number skills and academic achievement in maths,
Developmental Science, 21(5), e12645, ISSN: 1363-755X. DOI:
10.1111/desc.12645.
Doumas, M,
Morsanyi, K, Young, WR (2018)
Cognitively and socially induced stress affects postural control,
Experimental Brain Research, 236(1), pp.305-314, ISSN: 0014-4819. DOI:
10.1007/s00221-017-5128-8.
Morsanyi, K, O’Mahony, E, McCormack, T (2017)
Number comparison and number ordering as predictors of arithmetic performance in adults: Exploring the link between the two skills, and investigating the question of domain-specificity,
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(12), pp.2497-2517, ISSN: 1747-0218. DOI:
10.1080/17470218.2016.1246577.
Primi, C,
Morsanyi, K, Donati, MA, Galli, S, Chiesi, F (2017)
Measuring Probabilistic Reasoning: The Construction of a New Scale Applying Item Response Theory,
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30(4), pp.933-950, ISSN: 0894-3257. DOI:
10.1002/bdm.2011.
Morsanyi, K, Chiesi, F, Primi, C, Szűcs, D (2017)
The illusion of replacement in research into the development of thinking biases: the case of the conjunction fallacy,
Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29(2), pp.240-257, ISSN: 2044-5911. DOI:
10.1080/20445911.2016.1256294.
Primi, C,
Morsanyi, K, Chiesi, F, Donati, MA, Hamilton, J (2016)
The Development and Testing of a New Version of the Cognitive Reflection Test Applying Item Response Theory (IRT),
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 29(5), pp.453-469, ISSN: 0894-3257. DOI:
10.1002/bdm.1883.
Rolison, JJ,
Morsanyi, K, O'Connor, PA (2016)
Can i Count on Getting Better? Association between Math Anxiety and Poorer Understanding of Medical Risk Reductions,
Medical Decision Making, 36(7), pp.876-886, ISSN: 0272-989X. DOI:
10.1177/0272989X15602000.
Trippas, D, Handley, SJ, Verde, MF,
Morsanyi, K (2016)
Logic brightens my day: Evidence for implicit sensitivity to logical validity,
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 42(9), pp.1448-1457, ISSN: 0278-7393. DOI:
10.1037/xlm0000248.
Morsanyi, K, Mammarella, IC, Szücs, D, Tomasetto, C, Primi, C, Maloney, EA (2016)
Editorial: Mathematical and statistics anxiety: Educational, social, developmental and cognitive perspectives,
Frontiers in Psychology, 7(JUL), DOI:
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01083.
Clinton, V,
Morsanyi, K, Alibali, MW, Nathan, MJ (2016)
Learning about Probability from Text and Tables: Do Color Coding and Labeling through an Interactive-user Interface Help?,
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30(3), pp.440-453, ISSN: 0888-4080. DOI:
10.1002/acp.3223.
Gauvrit, N and
Morsanyi, K (2014)
The equiprobability bias from a mathematical and psychological perspective,
Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 10(4), pp.119-130, ISSN: 1895-1171. DOI:
10.5709/acp-0163-9.
Morsanyi, K, Busdraghi, C, Primi, C (2014)
Mathematical anxiety is linked to reduced cognitive reflection: A potential road from discomfort in the mathematics classroom to susceptibility to biases,
Behavioral and Brain Functions, 10(1), DOI:
10.1186/1744-9081-10-31.
Morsanyi, K and Fogarasi, E (2014)
Thinking about the past, present and future in adolescents growing up in Children's Homes,
Journal of Adolescence, 37(7), pp.1043-1056, ISSN: 0140-1971. DOI:
10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.07.011.
Primi, C, Busdraghi, C, Tomasetto, C,
Morsanyi, K, Chiesi, F (2014)
Measuring math anxiety in Italian college and high school students: Validity, reliability and gender invariance of the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS),
Learning and Individual Differences, 34, pp.51-56, ISSN: 1041-6080. DOI:
10.1016/j.lindif.2014.05.012.
Morsanyi, K, Handley, SJ, Serpell, S (2013)
Making heads or tails of probability: An experiment with random generators,
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 83(3), pp.379-395, ISSN: 0007-0998. DOI:
10.1111/j.2044-8279.2012.02067.x.
Morsanyi, K, Devine, A, Nobes, A, Szudouble acutecs, D (2013)
The link between logic, mathematics and imagination: Evidence from children with developmental dyscalculia and mathematically gifted children,
Developmental Science, 16(4), pp.542-553, ISSN: 1363-755X. DOI:
10.1111/desc.12048.
Vergauwe, E, Gauffroy, C,
Morsanyi, K, Dagry, I, Barrouillet, P (2013)
Chronometric evidence for the dual-process mental model theory of conditional,
Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 25(2), pp.174-182, ISSN: 2044-5911. DOI:
10.1080/20445911.2012.744743.
Morsanyi, K and Handley, SJ (2012)
Reasoning on the basis of fantasy content: Two studies with high-functioning autistic adolescents,
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(11), pp.2297-2311, ISSN: 0162-3257. DOI:
10.1007/s10803-012-1477-0.
Morsanyi, K, Primi, C, Handley, SJ, Chiesi, F, Galli, S (2012)
Are systemizing and autistic traits related to talent and interest in mathematics and engineering? Testing some of the central claims of the empathizing-systemizing theory,
British Journal of Psychology, 103(4), pp.472-496, ISSN: 0007-1269. DOI:
10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02089.x.
Thompson, V and
Morsanyi, K (2012)
Analytic thinking: Do you feel like it?,
Mind and Society, 11(1), pp.93-105, ISSN: 1593-7879. DOI:
10.1007/s11299-012-0100-6.
Morsanyi, K and Handley, SJ (2012)
Logic feels so good-I like it! evidence for intuitive detection of logicality in syllogistic reasoning,
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 38(3), pp.596-616, ISSN: 0278-7393. DOI:
10.1037/a0026099.
Chiesi, F, Ciancaleoni, M, Galli, S,
Morsanyi, K, Primi, C (2012)
Item Response Theory analysis and Differential Item Functioning across age, gender and country of a short form of the Advanced Progressive Matrices,
Learning and Individual Differences, 22(3), pp.390-396, ISSN: 1041-6080. DOI:
10.1016/j.lindif.2011.12.007.
Chiesi, F, Primi, C,
Morsanyi, K (2011)
Developmental changes in probabilistic reasoning: The role of cognitive capacity, instructions, thinking styles, and relevant knowledge,
Thinking and Reasoning, 17(3), pp.315-350, ISSN: 1354-6783. DOI:
10.1080/13546783.2011.598401.
Morsanyi, K, Handley, SJ, Evans, JSBT (2010)
Decontextualised minds: Adolescents with autism are less susceptible to the conjunction fallacy than typically developing adolescents,
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40(11), pp.1378-1388, ISSN: 0162-3257. DOI:
10.1007/s10803-010-0993-z.
Morsanyi, K and Holyoak, KJ (2010)
Analogical reasoning ability in autistic and typically developing children,
Developmental Science, 13(4), pp.578-587, ISSN: 1363-755X. DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00915.x.
Morsanyi, K, Primi, C, Chiesi, F, Handley, S (2009)
The effects and side-effects of statistics education: Psychology students' (mis-)conceptions of probability,
Contemporary Educational Psychology, 34(3), pp.210-220, ISSN: 0361-476X. DOI:
10.1016/j.cedpsych.2009.05.001.
Morsanyi, K and Handley, SJ (2008)
How smart do you need to be to get it wrong? The role of cognitive capacity in the development of heuristic-based judgment,
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 99(1), pp.18-36, ISSN: 0022-0965. DOI:
10.1016/j.jecp.2007.08.003.
Conferences
Donati, MA, Primi, C, Chiesi, F,
Morsanyi, K (2015)
Interest in statistics: Examining the effects of individual and situational characteristics. In
, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (CERME9), pp.740-745.
Primi, C,
Morsanyi, K, Donati, MA, Chiesi, F (2014) Item Response Theory analysis of the Cognitive Reflection Test: Testing the psychometric properties of the original scale and a newly developed 8-item version. In
, Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014, pp.2799-2804.
Morsanyi, K, Busdraghi, C, Primi, C (2014) Does maths anxiety make people bad decision-makers? The link between mathematical anxiety and cognitive reflection. In
, Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014, pp.1042-1047.
Morsanyi, K and Handley, SJ (2012) Does thinking make you biased? The case of the engineers and lawyers problem. In
, Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012, pp.2049-2054.
Chapters
Morsanyi, K (2021) Math and logic: Relationships across development. In Fias, W and Henik, A (ed)
Heterogeneous Contributions to Numerical Cognition. Learning and Education in Mathematical Cognition, Academic Press, pp.?-?.
Morsanyi, K (2021) Les enfants percoivent-ils mal le hasard. In Honnorat, L (ed)
Pourqoui moi? Le hazard dans tous ses etats, Belin, pp.510-533.
Morsanyi, K (2021)
Maths and logic: Relationships across development. In
Heterogeneous Contributions to Numerical Cognition: Learning and Education in Mathematical Cognition, pp.45-70, DOI:
10.1016/B978-0-12-817414-2.00010-5.
Morsanyi, K (2020) Reasoning skills in individuals with mathematics difficulties. In Martin, AJ, Sperling, RA, Newton, KJ (ed)
Handbook of Educational Psychology and Students with Special Needs, Routledge, pp.510-533.
Morsanyi, K, Stamenkovic, D, Holyoak, K (2020) Analogical reasoning in autism. A systematic review and meta-analysis. In
Morsanyi, K and Byrne, R (ed)
Thinking, reasoning and decision making in autism, Psychology Press, Routledge, pp.59-87.
Morsanyi, K and Byrne, R (2020) How do individuals with autism think?. In
Morsanyi, K and Byrne, R (ed)
Thinking, reasoning and decision making in autism, Routledge, pp.1-12.
Morsanyi, K, Kahl, T, Rooney, R (2016)
The link between math and logic in adolescence: The effect of argument form. In
Individual Differences in Judgement and Decision-Making: A Developmental Perspective, pp.166-185, DOI:
10.4324/9781315636535.
Morsanyi, K and Szucs, D (2015)
Intuition in mathematical and probabilistic reasoning. In Cohen-Kadosh, R and Dowker, A (ed)
The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition, Oxford University Press, pp.180-200, DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642342.001.0001.
Morsanyi, K and Szucs, D (2014) The link between mathematics and logical reasoning: Implications for research and education. In
The Routledge International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties, Routledge, pp.101-114, ISBN: 9781317581000.
Morsanyi, K and Handley, SJ (2013)
Heuristics and biases: Insights from developmental studies. In
The Development of Thinking and Reasoning, pp.122-149, DOI:
10.4324/9780203068748.