Journal Articles

Hegyi, P, Garami, A, Agusti, A, Agyemang, C, Anadon, A, Balla, J, Banach, M, Bennett, D, Brugha, TS, Buitelaar, J, Carvalho, F, Ceron, JJ, Cohen, A, Dalkara, T, Daly, AK, Dayan, P, de Herder, WW, Del Prato, S, Dobrev, D, Dorobantu, M, Esiri, M, Fauser, B, Ferdinandy, P, Filippatos, G, Fitzgerald, R, Gambari, R, Ganser, A, Giamarellou, H, Glover, V, Grzybowski, A, Gulyas, B, Hogendoorn, PCW, Holzer, P, Pol, HH, Joensuu, H, Juhasz, G, Kaprio, J, Kondorosi, E, Langs, G, Lau, CS, Laurence, JC, Levi-Schaffer, F, Lyons, RA, Lyu, A, Kumar, MNVR, Mancia, G, McCormack, B, McInnes, I, McKenna, H, Megraud, F, Misrahi, M, Peters, GJ, Petersen, OH, Piguet, V, Poynard, T, Qin, L, Reiner, Z, Reitsma, P, Rogler, G, Rossor, M, Sackley, C, Saunders, P, Schulz, R, Schwab, M, Sermeus, W, Shariat, S, Skakkebæk, NE, Steyerberg, EW, Swash, M, Szekanecz, Z, Thiery, JP, Thompson, DR, Varro, A, Vieth, M, Wensing, M, Wong, JEL, Yu, J, Zaidi, M, Zumla, A, Barna, V, Engh, MA, Farkas, R, Harnos, A, Nagy, R, Obeidat, M, Rancz, A, Teutsch, B, Varga, G, Vancsa, S, Wenning, AS, Kuppuswamy, A, Morsanyi, K, Solymosi, K (2025) Academia Europaea’s guidelines for the visualization of clinical outcomes, Nature Medicine, ISSN: 1078-8956. DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03992-1.

Pickering, J, Attridge, N, Inglis, M, Morsanyi, K (2025) Numeracy, logical reasoning and real-world decision making, Research in Mathematics Education, ISSN: 1479-4802. DOI: 10.1080/14794802.2025.2472675.

Tomasetto, C, Passolunghi, MC, De Vita, C, Guardabassi, V, Morsanyi, K (2025) Parental mathematics anxiety is related to children's mathematical development in preschool and the first school years, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 252(2025), 106185, ISSN: 0022-0965. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106185.

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, 88(8), pp.2444-2454, 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.

Books

Morsanyi, K and Byrne, RMJ (2019) Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making in Autism, Routledge, ISBN: 9781351060899.

Chapters

Roulstone, A, Morsanyi, K, Bahnmueller, J (2025) Developmental dyscalculia: areas of consensus and debate in the research community. In Gliksman, Y, Kaufmann, L, Henik, A (ed) Developmental Dyscalculia From Brain Mechanisms to Educational Applications, Academic Press, pp.201-218, ISBN: 9780443222238. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-22224-5.00010-2.

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 Development of Thinking and Reasoning, pp.122-149, DOI: 10.4324/9780203068748.

Internet Publications

Pickering, J, Inglis, M, Morsanyi, K, Attridge, N (Accepted for publication) Numeracy, conditional inference and real-world decision making.

Datasets

Hegyi, P, Garami, A, Agusti, A, Agyemang, C, Anadon, A, Balla, J, Banach, M, Bennett, D, Sean Brugha, T, Buitelaar, J, Carvalho, F, Ceron, JJ, Cohen, A, Dalkara, T, K Daly, A, Dayan, P, W de Herder, W, Prato, SD, Dobrev, D, Dorobantu, M, Esiri, M, Fauser, B, Ferdinandy, P, Filippatos, G, Fitzgerald, R, Gambarini, R, Ganser, A, Giamarellou, H, Glover, V, Grzybowski, A, Gulyas, B, CW Hogendoorn, P, Holzer, P, Hulshoff Pol, H, Joensuu, H, Juhasz, G, Kaprio, J, Kondorosi, E, Langs, G, Lau, CS, C Laurence, J, Levi-Schaffer, F, A Lyons, R, Lyu, A, Ravi Kumar, MNV, Mancia, G, McCormack, B, McInnes, I, McKenna, H, Megraud, F, Misrahi, M, Peters, GJ, Petersen, OH, Piguet, V, Poynard, T, Qin, L, Reiner, Z, Reitsma, P, Rogler, G, Rossor, M, Sackley, C, Saunders, P, Schulz, R, Schwab, M, Sermeus, W, Shariat, S, Erik Skakkebæk, N, W Steyerberg, E, Swash, M, Szekanecz, Z, Paul Thiery, J, Thompson, DR, Varro, A, Vieth, M, Wensing, M, EL Wong, J, Yu, J, Zaidi, M, Zumla, A, Barna, V, Anne Engh, M, Farkas, R, Harnos, A, Nagy, R, Obeidat, M, Rancz, A, Teutsch, B, Varga, G, Vancsa, S, S Wenning, A, Kuppuswamy, A, Morsanyi, K, Solymosi, K (2025) Supplementary information files for "Academia Europaea’s guidelines for the visualization of clinical outcomes", DOI: 10.17028/rd.lboro.30363694.

Roulstone, A, Morsanyi, K, Bahnmueller, J (2024) Supplementary information files for "Performance on curriculum-based mathematics assessments in developmental dyscalculia: The effect of content domain and question format", DOI: 10.17028/rd.lboro.28758902.