Here I provide a copy of my (2010) PhD Dissertation: “An Integrated Neural Model of Syllogistic Reasoning, Incorporating the Effects of Sequentially- and Concurrently-Presented Emotion”.
In the General Discussion (p. 170 of the dissertation pdf file) I successfully argued that we rely on our pre-existing beliefs, rather than logical reasoning, as our default mode of processing. This was a radical view given that I was working in a Reasoning laboratory. Subsequently, my dissertation advisor, Professor Vinod Goel, has published Reason and Less (Goel, 2022, MIT Press).