Professor Frederic Vallee-Tourangeau
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Psychology
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
Professor of Psychology
About
I am an experimental psychologist, working primarily on problem solving from a distributed cognition perspective. I run the Systemic Cognition Lab at Kingston (https://syscoglab.com/)
Qualifications
- PhD McGill University
- MA University of Pennsylvania
- BA(Hons) First Class McGill University
Domains
- Acting Associate Dean for Research
- REF coordinator
Publications
Outsight : restoring the role of objects in creative problem solving
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2024). Cambridge, U.K.: (Cambridge University Press)
Handbook of creative cognition
(2023). Abingdon, Oxon: (Routledge)
Systemic creative cognition : Bruno Latour for creativity researchers
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2023). (Routledge)
Insight : on the origins of new ideas
(2018). Abingdon, U.K.: (Routledge)
Systemic creative problem-solving : on the poverty of ideas and the generative power of prototyping
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2025, Systems (13), 3, pp 150
Objects as knowledge : a case study of outsight
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Green, Anna, March, Paul L. and Steffensen, Sune Vork, 2024
Challenges of measuring empathic accuracy : a mentalizing versus experience-sharing paradigm
Turner, Rose and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2022, British Journal of Social Psychology
Insight with stumpers : normative solution data for 25 stumpers and a fresh perspective on the accuracy effect
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2022, Thinking Skills and Creativity, pp 101114
Rewilding cognition : complex dynamics in open experimental systems
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2022, Journal of Trial and Error (2), 1
Accident and agency : a mixed methods study contrasting luck and interactivity in problem solving
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2022, (28), 4, pp 487-528
Kinenoetic analysis : unveiling the material traces of insight
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2021, Methods in Psychology (5), pp 100069
Microserendipity in the creative process
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2021, Journal of Creative Behavior (55), 3, pp 661-672
Catch that word : interactivity, serendipity and verbal fluency in a word production task
Ross, Wendy and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2021, Psychological Research (85), pp 842-856
Correction to: The effects of numeracy and presentation format on judgments of contingency
Cooper, Susan and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2021, Memory and Cognition (49), pp 400
The effects of numeracy and presentation format on judgments of contingency
Cooper, Susan and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2021, (49), 2, pp 389-399
Insight as discovery
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Ross, Wendy, Ruffatto Rech, Renata and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2021, Journal of Cognitive Psychology (33), 6-7, pp 718-737
Fiction effects on social cognition : varying narrative engagement with cognitive load
Turner, Rose and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2020, Scientific Study of Literature (10), 1, pp 94-127
Insight out : making creativity visible
Vallée-Tourangeau, Freédéric and March, Paul L., 2020, The Journal of Creative Behavior (54), 4, pp 824-842
Mapping systemic resources in problem solving
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2020, New Ideas in Psychology (59), pp 100812
Mental arithmetic and interactivity : the effect of manipulating external number representations on older children's mental arithmetic success
Ross, Wendy, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Van Herwegen, Jo, 2020, International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education (18), pp 985-1000
Incubation and interactivity in insight problem solving
Henok, Niyat, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2020, Psychological Research (84), 1, pp 128-139
Henderson, Emma L., Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Simons, Daniel J., 2019, Collabra : Psychology (5), 1, pp 19
'For a good poet's made, as well as born' : the relational ontology of Shakespeare's genius
Ross, Wendy and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2018, Creativity. Theories - Research - Applications (5), 1, pp 26-40
Numbers in action : individual differences and interactivity in mental arithmetic
Guthrie, Lisa G. and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2018, Cognitive Processing (19), 3, pp 317-326
Concepts and action : where does the embodiment debate leave us?
Shipp, Nicholas J., Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Anthony, Susan H., 2018, Psychology of Language and Communication (22), 1, pp 260-280
Language as a part of action : multidimensional time-scale integration of language and cognition
Raczaszek-Leonardi, Joanna and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2018, Psychology of Language and Communication (22), 1, pp 281-286
Interactivity mitigates the impact of working memory depletion on mental arithmetic performance
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Sirota, Miroslav and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2016, Cognitive Research : Principles and Implications (1)
Interactivity defuses the impact of mathematics anxiety in primary school children
Allen, Michael and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2016, International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education (14), 8, pp 1553-1566
Why the best problem-solvers think with their hands, as well as their heads
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2016, The Conversation
Insight with hands and things
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Steffensen, Sune Vork, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Sirota, Miroslav, 2016, Acta Psychologica (170), pp 195-205
Cognitive events in a problem solving task : qualitative methods for investigating interactivity in the 17 animals problem
Steffensen, Sune, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2016, Journal Of Cognitive Psychology (28), 1, pp 79-105
Now you Bayes, now you don't : effects of set-problem and frequency-format mental representations on statistical reasoning
Sirota, Miroslav, Kostovičová, Lenka and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2015, (22), 5, pp 1465-1473
On Bayesian problem-solving : helping Bayesians solve simple Bayesian word problems
Sirota, Miroslav, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Juanchich, Marie, 2015, Frontiers in Psychology (6), pp 1141
Learning and interactivity in solving a transformation problem
Guthrie, Lisa, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Howard, Chelsea, 2015, (43), 5, pp 723-735
Interactivity fosters Bayesian reasoning without instruction
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Abadie, Marlene and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2015, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (144), 3, pp 581-603
How to train your Bayesian: a problem-representation transfer rather than a format-representation shift explains training effects
Sirota, Miroslav, Kostovicova, Lenka and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2015, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (68), 1, pp 1-9
Beyond getting the numbers right : what does it mean to be a "successful" Bayesian reasoner?
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Sirota, Miroslav, Juanchich, Marie and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2015, Frontiers in Psychology (6), 712
Interactivity and mental arithmetic : coupling mind and world transforms and enhances performance
Guthrie, Lisa and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2015, Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric (41), 54, pp 41-59
Education should be a right for all
Agnew, Eadaoin, Alliez, Eric, Auerbach, Paul, Blackburn, Robert, Botting, Fred, Brady, Mary, Caygill, Howard, Chadwick, Howard, Chanter, Tina, Choat, Simon, Chu, Jonathan, Cinpoes, Radu, Coultas, Valerie, Dines, Martin, Dixon, Paul, Favretto, Ilaria, Finn, Peter, Giaxoglou, Korina, Goldsmith, Carlie, Hallward, Peter, Hawkins, Sue, Haywood, Peter, Higginbottom, Andrew, Ichijo, Atsuko, Isaac, Marina, Jensen, Meg, Kayyali, Reem, Kettyle, Ann, Lambrou, Marina, Latimer, Amanda, Linton, Marisa, Lipsedge, Karen, Malabou, Catherine, O Maoilearca, John, McQuillan, Martin, Micklethwaite, Paul, Morgan Wortham, Simon, O'Brien, Catherine, Osborne, Peter, Pinnock, Winsome, Piper, Jason, Ponto, Maria, Raphael, Sam, Reid, Trish, Roberts, Mike, Rogers, David, Sandford, Stella, Searby, Michael, Siddiki, Jalal Uddin, Smart, Jackie, Spencer, Philip, Stockhammer, Engelbert, Stuart, John, Suess, Eleanor, Swift, Allan, Upstone, Sara, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Wells, Julian and Wilson, Scott, 2014, The Guardian
The spatio-temporal dynamics of systemic thinking
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2014, (21), 1-2, pp 113-127
Diagrams, jars, and matchsticks : a systemicist's toolkit
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2014, Pragmatics and Cognition (22), 2, pp 187-205
Insight, materiality and interactivity
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2014, (22), 1, pp 27-44
The interplay between presentation material and decision mode for complex choice preferences
Abadie, Marlene, Villejoubert, Gaelle, Waroquier, Laurent and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2013, Journal Of Cognitive Psychology (25), 6, pp 682-691
Interactivity, efficiency, and individual differences in mental arithmetic
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2013, Experimental Psychology (60), 4, pp 302-311
Abnormal centroparietal ERP response in predominantly medication-naive adolescent boys with ADHD during both response inhibition and execution
Gow, Rachel V, Rubia, Katya, Taylor, Eric, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Matsudaira, Toshiko, Ibrahimovic, Almira and Sumich, Alexander, 2012, Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology (29), 2, pp 181-9
Relevance-driven information search in "pseudodiagnostic" reasoning
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2012, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (65), 3, pp 541-552
Utilities in the 2-4-6 task
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2012, Experimental Psychology (59), 5, pp 265-271
Interactive insight problem solving
Weller, A., Villejoubert, G. and Vallee-Tourangeau, F., 2011, (17), 4, pp 424-439
Einstellung defused: interactivity and mental set
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Euden, Gemma and Hearn, Vanessa, 2011, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (64), 10, pp 1889-1895
La resolution de probleme naturalisee
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle, 2011, Enfance (2011), 1, pp 93-116
Making the illusory correlation effect appear and then disappear: the effects of increased learning
Murphy, Robin A., Schmeer, Stefanie, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Mondragon, Esther and Hilton, Denis, 2011, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (64), 1, pp 24-40
Constructing preferences in the physical world: a distributed cognition perspective on preferences and risky choices
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2011, Frontiers in Psychology (2), 302
Total red blood cell concentrations of [omega]-3 fatty acids are associated with emotion-elicited neural activity in adolescent boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
Gow, Rachel V., Matsudaira, Toshiko, Taylor, Eric, Rubia, Katya, Crawford, Michael, Ghebremeskel, Kebreab, Ibrahimovic, Almira, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Williams, Leanne M. and Sumich, Alexander, 2009, (80), 2-3, pp 151-156
Graphical representation fosters discovery in the 2-4-6 task
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Payton, Teresa, 2008, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (61), 4, pp 625-640
The impact of presentation format on causal inferences
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Payton, Teresa and Murphy, Robin A., 2008, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology (20), 1, pp 177-194
The impact of external representation in a rule discovery task
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Krüsi Penney, Andrea, 2005, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology (17), 6, pp 820-834
Contiguity and the outcome density bias in action-outcome contingency judgements
Vallee-Tourangeau, F., Murphy, R.A. and Baker, A.G., 2005, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B (58), 2, pp 177-192
Collaboration
Ross, Wendy, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Glaveanu, Vlad (2019). In: Runco, M., (eds.) and Pritzker, S., (eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity. Academic Press
Insight
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2019). In: Glaveanu, Vlad Petre, (ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan
Introduction
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2018). In: Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, (ed.), Insight : on the origins of new ideas. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 1-7
An ecological perspective on insight problem solving
Steffensen, Sune Vork and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2018). In: Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, (ed.), Insight : on the origins of new ideas. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 169-190
Thinking and deciding beyond the brain
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2017). In: Galbraith, Niall, (eds.), Lucas, Erica, (eds.) and Over, David E., (eds.), The thinking mind: a Festschrift for Ken Manktelow. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, pp 40-53
Information relevance in pseudodiagnostic reasoning
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2010). In: Ohlsson, S., (eds.) and Catrambone, R., (eds.), Cognition in flux: proceedings of the 32nd annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, U.S.A.: Cognitive Science Society, pp 1172-1177
The psychology of risk management
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2010). In: Boecker, K., (ed.), Rethinking risk measurement and reporting: uncertainty, Bayesian analysis and expert judgement. London, U.K.: Risk Books
Children, depression and essential fatty acids
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Gow, Rachel V. and Sumich, Alexander (2009). In: Naylor, Bernice T., (ed.), Depression in Children. Hauppauge NY, U.S.A.: Nova Science Publishers, pp 129-156
Goal-driven hypothesis testing in a rule discovery task
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Payton, Teresa (2008). In: Love, B.C., (eds.), McRae, K., (eds.) and Sloutsky, V.M., (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, Texas: Cognitive Science Society, pp 2122-2127
Women, depression and essential fatty acids
Gow, Rachel V., Sumich, Alexander and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2008). In: Bancroft, Pauline R., (eds.) and Ardley, Leli B., (eds.), Major depression in women. New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp 137-151
Interactive graphical representations support the formulation of sound hypotheses in a rule discovery task
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Payton, Teresa (2006). In: Sun, R., (eds.) and Miyake, N., (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp 2287-2292
The impact of the format of covariation information on causal inferences
Payton, Teresa and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2006). In: Sun, R., (eds.) and Miyake, N., (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp 1938-1943
Representational effects in a rule discovery task
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Kruesi Penney, Andrea and Payton, Teresa (2005). In: Bara, B.G., (eds.), Barsalou, L., (eds.) and Bucciarelli, M., (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp 2236-2241
Signal-outcome contingency, contiguity, and the depressive realism effect
Murphy, R.A., Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Msetfi, R. and Baker, A.G. (2005). In: Wills, A.J., (ed.), New Directions in Human Associative Learning. Mahwah, N.J., US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp 193-219
Contingency learning and causal reasoning
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Murphy, R.A., Mheta, R. and Baker, A.G. (2001). In: Mowrer, R.R., (eds.) and Klein, S.B., (eds.), Handbook of Contemporary Learning Theories. Mahwah, N.J., US: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp 255-306
Can you take a break if you have work to do? Momentary emotional wellbeing and prospective hedonic judgments of leisure
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2019). In: 27th Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM) Conference, 18 - 22 Aug 2019 :Amsterdam, Netherlands
Unknitting the meshwork : interactivity, serendipity and individual differences in a word production task
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric(2019). In: 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2019) : Creativity + Cognition + Computation, 24 - 27 July 2019 :Montreal, Canada
Open social science 101 : the case of registered reports
Henderson, Emma, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie(2019). In: 10th Annual Faculty Research Conference: Contemporary Issues in Business and Social Sciences in a period of uncertainty, 03 - 04 Jun 2019 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
Touchy thinking: interactivity improves planning
Henderson, Emma, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2016). In: Third International Conference on Interactivity, Language and Cognition (CILC2016): the Tactility of Thinking and Talking, 29 Jun – 01 Jul 2016 :Kingston upon Thames, U.K.
The description-experience gap in risky choice framing
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Ramasubramanian, Madhuri(2016). In: 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI 2016): Recognizing and Representing Events, 10-13 Aug 2016 :Philadelphia, U.S.
Distributed Bayesian reasoning
Villejoubert, Gaelle, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Abadie, Marlene(2011). In: Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, 13 - 15 Apr 2011 :Oxford, U.K.
Distributed cognition and insight
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Villejoubert, Gaelle and Weller, Anna(2011). In: Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, 13 - 15 Apr 2011 :Oxford, U.K.
Mental representation of chances and natural frequencies in Bayesian reasoning
Sirota, Miroslav, Kostocicova, Lenka, Harencarova, Hanka and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2011). In: Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, 13 - 15 Apr 2011 :Oxford, U.K.
Information relevance in pseudodiagnostic reasoning
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle(2010). In: Cognition in Flux: 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 11 - 14 Aug 2010 :Portland, U.S.
Feeding the mind's eye: unconscious deliberation needs visual information
Villejoubert, Gaelle, Abadie, Marlene and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2009). In: LJDM seminar, 4 Nov 2009 :London, U.K.
Distributed cognition in problem solving
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle(2009). In: British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference, 01 - 03 Sep 2009 :Hatfield, U.K.
Les roles des utilities, de la motivation, et de l'information numerique dans le raisonnement pseudo-diagnostique [Utility-driven information search in pseudodiagnostic reasoning]
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2009). In: Congres de la SFP : Psychologie at enjeux de societe [Annual Conference of the French Psychological Society], 17 - 19 Jun 2009 :Toulouse, France
Verbal fluency and interactive skills in a word generation task
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Bolton, Elizabeth, Burleigh, Carly and Wrightman, Miles(2008). In: Distributed Thinking, 19 Jun 2008 :Hatfield, U.K.