Professor Frederic Vallee-Tourangeau
Faculties, departments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Psychology
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
Professor of Psychology
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
I am an experimental psychologist, working primarily on problem solving from a distributed cognition perspective. I run the Systemic Cognition Lab at Kingston.
Qualifications
- PhD McGill University
- MA University of Pennsylvania
- BA(Hons) First Class McGill University
Domains
- Acting Associate Dean for Research
- REF coordinator
Publications
Creative cognition: a collaborative research agenda
Ross, Wendy, Agnoli, Sergio, Baas, Matthijs, Danek, Amory H., Lebuda, Izabela, Ackerman, Rakefet, Ammalainen, Artur, Benedek, Mathias, Bai, Honghong, Ball, Linden J., Barbot, Baptiste, Campidelli, Lorenzo, Caravona, Laura, Ceh, Simon, Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele, Czerwonka, Marta, Luft, Caroline Di Bernardi, Hart, Yuval, Jędrusiak, Jakub, Kenett, Yoed N., Khalil, Radwa, Macchi, Laura, Mangion, Margaret, Miroshnik, Kirill G., Nawrocka, Paulina, Nijstad, Bernard A., Öllinger, Michael, Ormerod, Thomas C., Rafner, Janet, Reis, Moritz, Rominger, Christian, Rummel, Jan, Salvi, Carola, Segatta, Cecilia, Stevenson, Claire E., Tulver, Kadi, Urban, Kamila, Urban, Marek, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Weiss, Selina, 2026, Journal of Creative Behavior (60), 2, E-pub ahead of print
Thinking through making or the art of verification
Vallée‐Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2026, The Journal of Creative Behavior (60), 1, Published
Making new ideas: a theoretical proposal and a mixed methods demonstration
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Soderberg, Christina, 2025, Methods in Psychology (13), Published
The One-I model of creativity: a commentary on Green et al. (2024)
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2025, Creativity Research Journal, E-pub ahead of print
Systemic creative problem-solving: on the poverty of ideas and the generative power of prototyping
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2025, Systems (13), 3, Published
Objects as knowledge: a case study of outsight
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Green, Anna, March, Paul L. and Steffensen, Sune Vork, 2024, Possibility Studies & Society, E-pub ahead of print
Challenges of measuring empathic accuracy: a mentalizing versus experience-sharing paradigm
Turner, Rose and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2022, British Journal of Social Psychology, E-pub ahead of print
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, E-pub ahead of print
Rewilding cognition: complex dynamics in open experimental systems
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2022, Journal of Trial and Error (2), 1, Published
Accident and agency: a mixed methods study contrasting luck and interactivity in problem solving
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2022, Thinking & Reasoning (28), 4pp 487-528, Published
Kinenoetic analysis: unveiling the material traces of insight
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2021, Methods in Psychology (5), Published
Microserendipity in the creative process
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2021, Journal of Creative Behavior (55), 3pp 661-672, Published
Catch that word: interactivity, serendipity and verbal fluency in a word production task
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2021, Psychological Research (85)pp 842-856, Published
Correction to: The effects of numeracy and presentation format on judgments of contingency
Cooper, Susan and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2021, Memory and Cognition (49), Published
The effects of numeracy and presentation format on judgments of contingency
Cooper, Susan and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2021, Memory & Cognition (49), 2pp 389-399, Published
Insight as discovery
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Ross, Wendy, Ruffatto Rech, Renata and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2021, Journal of Cognitive Psychology (33), 6-7pp 718-737, Published
Fiction effects on social cognition: varying narrative engagement with cognitive load
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Turner, Rose, 2020, Scientific Study of Literature (10), 1pp 94-127, Published
Insight out: making creativity visible
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and March, Paul L., 2020, The Journal of Creative Behavior (54), 4pp 824-842, Published
Mapping systemic resources in problem solving
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2020, New Ideas in Psychology (59), Published
Mental arithmetic and interactivity: the effect of manipulating external number representations on older children's mental arithmetic success
Ross, Wendy, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Van Herwegen, Jo, 2020, International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education (18)pp 985-1000, Published
Incubation and interactivity in insight problem solving
Henok, Niyat, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2020, Psychological Research (84), 1pp 128-139, Published
The effect of concrete wording on truth judgements: a preregistered replication and extension of Hansen & Wanke (2010)
Henderson, Emma L., Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Simons, Daniel J., 2019, Collabra: Psychology (5), 1, Published
'For a good poet's made, as well as born': the relational ontology of Shakespeare's genius
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2018, Creativity. Theories - Research - Applications (5), 1pp 26-40, Published
Numbers in action: individual differences and interactivity in mental arithmetic
Guthrie, Lisa G. and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2018, Cognitive Processing (19), 3pp 317-326, Published
Concepts and action: where does the embodiment debate leave us?
Shipp, Nicholas J., Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Anthony, Susan H., 2018, Psychology of Language and Communication (22), 1pp 260-280, Published
Language as a part of action: multidimensional time-scale integration of language and cognition
Raczaszek-Leonardi, Joanna and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2018, Psychology of Language and Communication (22), 1pp 281-286, Published
Interactivity mitigates the impact of working memory depletion on mental arithmetic performance
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Sirota, Miroslav and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2016, Atmospheric Environment - Part B Urban Atmosphere (1), Published
Interactivity defuses the impact of mathematics anxiety in primary school children
Allen, Michael and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2016, International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education (14), 8pp 1553-1566, Published
Why the best problem-solvers think with their hands, as well as their heads
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2016, The Conversation, Published
Insight with hands and things
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Steffensen, Sune Vork, Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle and Sirota, Miroslav, 2016, Acta Psychologica (170)pp 195-205, Published
Cognitive events in a problem solving task: qualitative methods for investigating interactivity in the 17 animals problem
Steffensen, Sune Vork, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, 2016, Journal of Cognitive Psychology (28), 1pp 79-105, Published
Now you Bayes, now you don't: effects of set-problem and frequency-format mental representations on statistical reasoning
Sirota, Miroslav, Kostovičová, Lenka and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2015, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (22), 5pp 1465-1473, Published
On Bayesian problem-solving: helping Bayesians solve simple Bayesian word problems
Sirota, Miroslav, Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Juanchich, Marie, 2015, Frontiers in Psychology (6), Published
Learning and interactivity in solving a transformation problem
Guthrie, Lisa G., Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle and Howard, Chelsea, 2015, Memory & Cognition (43), 5pp 723-735, Published
Interactivity fosters Bayesian reasoning without instruction
Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, Abadie, Marlène and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2015, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (144), 3pp 581-603, Published
Insight, materiality and interactivity
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2015, Pragmatics & Cognition (22), 1pp 27-44, Published
Beyond getting the numbers right: what does it mean to be a "successful" Bayesian reasoner?
Vallée-Tourangeau, Gaëlle, Sirota, Miroslav, Juanchich, Marie and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2015, Frontiers in Psychology (6), 712, Published
Interactivity and mental arithmetic: coupling mind and world transforms and enhances performance
Lisa, Guthrie and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2015, Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric (41), 54pp 41-59, Published
How to train your Bayesian: a problem-representation transfer rather than a format-representation shift explains training effects
Sirota, Miroslav, Kostovičová, Lenka and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2015, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (68), 1pp 1-9, Published
Education should be a right for all
Dixon, Paul, Favretto, Ilaria, Finn, Peter, Smart, Jackie, Spencer, Philip, Stockhammer, Engelbert, Stuart, John, Suess, Eleanor, Giaxoglou, Korina, Goldsmith, Carlie, Hallward, Peter, Hawkins, Sue, Swift, Allan, Upstone, Sara, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Wells, Julian, Wilson, Scott, 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, Blackburn, Robert, Botting, Fred, Brady, Mary, Osborne, Peter, Pinnock, Winsome, Piper, Jason, Choat, Simon, Chu, Jonathan, Cinpoes, Radu, Coultas, Valerie, Dines, Martin, Caygill, Howard, Chadwick, Howard, Chanter, Tina, Roberts, Mike, Rogers, David, Sandford, Stella, Searby, Michael, Siddiki, Jalal Uddin, Ponto, Maria, Raphael, Sam, Reid, Trish, Agnew, Eadaoin, Alliez, Eric and Auerbach, Paul, 2014, The Guardian, Published
Diagrams, jars, and matchsticks: a systemicist's toolkit
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, 2014, Pragmatics and Cognition (22), 2pp 187-205, Published
The spatio-temporal dynamics of systemic thinking
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, 2014, Cybernetics & Human Knowing (21), 1-2pp 113-127, Published
The interplay between presentation material and decision mode for complex choice preferences
Abadie, Marlène, Villejoubert, Gaëlle, Waroquier, Laurent and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2013, Journal of Cognitive Psychology (25), 6pp 682-691, Published
Interactivity, efficiency, and individual differences in mental arithmetic
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2013, Experimental Psychology (60), 4pp 302-311, Published
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, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Matsudaira, Toshiko, Ibrahimovic, Almira and Sumich, Alexander, 2012, Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology (29), 2pp 181-9, Published
Relevance-driven information search in "pseudodiagnostic" reasoning
Villejoubert, Gaëlle and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2012, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (65), 3pp 541-552, Published
Utilities in the 2-4-6 task
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2012, Experimental Psychology (59), 5pp 265-271, Published
Interactive insight problem solving
Weller, Anna, Villejoubert, Gaëlle and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2011, Thinking & Reasoning (17), 4pp 424-439, Published
Einstellung defused: interactivity and mental set
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Euden, Gemma and Hearn, Vanessa, 2011, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (64), 10pp 1889-1895, Published
La resolution de probleme naturalisee
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Villejoubert, Gaëlle, 2011, Enfance (2011), 1pp 93-116, Published
Constructing preferences in the physical world: a distributed cognition perspective on preferences and risky choices
Villejoubert, Gaëlle and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, 2011, Frontiers in Psychology (2), 302, Published
Making the illusory correlation effect appear and then disappear: the effects of increased learning
Murphy, Robin A., Schmeer, Stefanie, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Mondragón, Esther and Hilton, Denis, 2011, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (64), 1pp 24-40, Published
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, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Williams, Leanne M. and Sumich, Alexander, 2009, Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids (80), 2-3pp 151-156, Published
Graphical representation fosters discovery in the 2-4-6 task
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Payton, Teresa, 2008, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (61), 4pp 625-640, Published
The impact of presentation format on causal inferences
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Payton, Teresa and Murphy, Robin A., 2008, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology (20), 1pp 177-194, Published
The impact of external representation in a rule discovery task
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Krüsi Penney, Andrea, 2005, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology (17), 6pp 820-834, Published
Contiguity and the outcome density bias in action-outcome contingency judgements
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Murphy, Robin A. and Baker, A. G., 2005, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology (58), 2pp 177-192, Published
The praxis of insight: interactivity and prototyping in creative problem solving
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frédéric (2026). Cham, Switzerland: (Palgrave Macmillan) [Published]
Outsight: restoring the role of objects in creative problem solving
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2024). Cambridge, U.K.: (Cambridge University Press) [Accepted/In press]
Systemic creative cognition: Bruno Latour for creativity researchers
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2023). [Published]
Insight: on the origins of new ideas
(2018). Abingdon, U.K.: (Routledge) [Published]
Insight
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle (2020). In: Glaveanu, Vlad Petre, (eds.), Cham, Switzerland: [Published]
Collaboration
Ross, Wendy, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric and Glăveanu, Vlad (2020). In: Runco, Mark, Pritzker, Steven, (eds.), Cambridge, U.K.:pp 161-166 [Published]
Unknitting the meshwork: interactivity, serendipity and individual differences in a word production task
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric (2019). [Published]
An ecological perspective on insight problem solving
Steffensen, Sune Vork and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric (2018). In: Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: Routledgepp 169-190 [Published]
Introduction
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2018). In: Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: Routledgepp 1-7 [Published]
Thinking and deciding beyond the brain
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2017). In: Lucas, Erica, Over, David E., Galbraith, Niall, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.:pp 40-53 [Published]
The description-experience gap in risky choice framing
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Ramasubramanian, Madhuri (2016). Austin, TX: [Published]
Information relevance in pseudodiagnostic reasoning
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2010). pp 1172-1177 [Published]
Information relevance in pseudodiagnostic reasoning
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle (2010). In: Ohlsson, S., Catrambone, R., (eds.), Austin, U.S.A.:pp 1172-1177 [Published]
The psychology of risk management
Villejoubert, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2010). In: Boecker, K., (eds.), London, U.K.: [Published]
Children, depression and essential fatty acids
Gow, Rachel V., Sumich, Alexander and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric (2009). In: Naylor, Bernice T., (eds.), Hauppauge NY, U.S.A.:pp 129-156 [Published]
Goal-driven hypothesis testing in a rule discovery task
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Payton, Teresa (2008). In: Love, B.C., McRae, K., Sloutsky, V.M., (eds.), Austin, Texas:pp 2122-2127 [Published]
Women, depression and essential fatty acids
Gow, Rachel V., Sumich, Alexander and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2008). In: Bancroft, Pauline R., Ardley, Leli B., (eds.), New York:pp 137-151 [Published]
Interactive graphical representations support the formulation of sound hypotheses in a rule discovery task
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Payton, Teresa (2006). In: Sun, R., Miyake, N., (eds.), Mahwah, New Jersey:pp 2287-2292 [Published]
The impact of the format of covariation information on causal inferences
Payton, Teresa and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic (2006). In: Sun, R., Miyake, N., (eds.), Mahwah, New Jersey:pp 1938-1943 [Published]
Representational effects in a rule discovery task
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Kruesi Penney, Andrea and Payton, Teresa (2005). In: Bara, B.G., Barsalou, L., Bucciarelli, M., (eds.), Mahwah, New Jersey:pp 2236-2241 [Published]
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., (eds.), Mahwah, N.J., US:pp 193-219 [Published]
Contingency learning and causal reasoning
Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric, Murphy, R.A., Mheta, R. and Baker, A.G. (2001). In: Mowrer, R.R., Klein, S.B., (eds.), Mahwah, N.J., US:pp 255-306 [Published]
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). [Published]
Unknitting the meshwork: interactivity, serendipity and individual differences in a word production task
Ross, Wendy and Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric(2019). [Published]
Open social science 101: the case of registered reports
Henderson, Emma, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie(2019). [Published]
The description-experience gap in risky choice framing
Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Ramasubramanian, Madhuri(2016). [Published]
Touchy thinking: interactivity improves planning
Henderson, Emma, Vallee-Tourangeau, Gaelle and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2016). [Published]
Distributed Bayesian reasoning
Villejoubert, Gaelle, Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Abadie, Marlene(2011). [Published]
Distributed cognition and insight
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Villejoubert, Gaelle and Weller, Anna(2011). [Published]
Mental representation of chances and natural frequencies in Bayesian reasoning
Sirota, Miroslav, Kostocicova, Lenka, Harencarova, Hanka and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2011). [Published]
Information relevance in pseudodiagnostic reasoning
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle(2010). [Published]
Feeding the mind's eye: unconscious deliberation needs visual information
Villejoubert, Gaelle, Abadie, Marlene and Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic(2009). [Published]
Distributed cognition in problem solving
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic and Villejoubert, Gaelle(2009). [Published]
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). [Published]
Verbal fluency and interactive skills in a word generation task
Vallee-Tourangeau, Frederic, Bolton, Elizabeth, Burleigh, Carly and Wrightman, Miles(2008). [Published]