Thinking, Reasoning & Problem Solving Books

New and Published Books

1. Foundations for Tracing Intuition

   Challenges and Methods

   Edited by Andreas Glöckner, Cilia Witteman

   The study of intuition and its relation to thoughtful reasoning is a burgeoning research topic in psychology and beyond. While the area has the potential to radically transform our conception of the mind and decision making, the procedures used for establishing empirical conclusions have often been...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Psychology Press
2. The Development of Thinking and Reasoning

   Edited by Pierre Barrouillet, Caroline Gauffroy

   Thinking and reasoning are key activities for human beings. In this book a distinguished set of contributors provides a wide readership with up-to-date scientific advances in the developmental psychology of thinking and reasoning, both at the theoretical and empirical levels. The first part of the...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Psychology Press
3. The Experience of Thinking

   How the Fluency of Mental Processes Influences Cognition and Behaviour

   Edited by Christian Unkelbach, Rainer Greifeneder

   When retrieving a quote from memory, evaluating a testimony’s truthfulness, or deciding which products to buy, people experience immediate feelings of ease or difficulty, of fluency or disfluency. Such "experiences of thinking" occur with every cognitive process, including perceiving, processing,...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Psychology Press
4. The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents

   Edited by Janis E. Jacobs, Paul A. Klaczynski

   In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and delinquency as evidence of faulty judgment. Over the past 10 years, many groups - including parents,...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Psychology Press
5. The Science of Reason

   A Festschrift for Jonathan St B.T. Evans

   Edited by Ken Manktelow, David Over, Shira Elqayam

   Series: Psychology Press Festschrift Series

   This volume is a state-of-the-art survey of the psychology of reasoning, based around, and in tribute to, one of the field’s most eminent figures: Jonathan St B.T. Evans. In this collection of cutting edge research, Evans’ collaborators and colleagues review a wide range of important and...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Psychology Press
6. Moves in Mind

   The Psychology of Board Games

   By Fernand Gobet, Jean Retschitzki, Alex de Voogt

   Board games have long fascinated as mirrors of intelligence, skill, cunning, and wisdom. While board games have been the topic of many scientific studies, and have been studied for more than a century by psychologists, there was until now no single volume summarizing psychological research into...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Psychology Press
7. Cognitive Illusions

   A Handbook on Fallacies and Biases in Thinking, Judgement and Memory

   Edited by Rüdiger F Pohl

   Cognitive Illusions investigates a wide range of fascinating psychological effects in the way we think, judge and remember in our everyday lives. At the beginning of each chapter, leading researchers in the field introduce the background to phenomena such as illusions of control, overconfidence...

   Published August 27th 2012 by Psychology Press
8. Experimental Philosophy and its Critics

   Edited by Joachim Horvath, Thomas Grundmann

   Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The...

   Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Thinking and Reasoning

   An Introduction to the Psychology of Reason, Judgment and Decision Making

   By Ken Manktelow

   The area of psychological research reviewed in this book is one that is not only increasing in popularity in college curricula, but is also making an ever larger impact on the world outside the classroom. Drawing upon research originally cited in Ken Manktelow’s highly successful publication...

   Published February 13th 2012 by Psychology Press
10. Social Metacognition

    Edited by Pablo Briñol, Kenneth DeMarree

    Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

    Metacognition refers to thinking about our own thinking. It has assumed a prominent role in social judgment because our thoughts about our thoughts can magnify, attenuate, or even reverse the impact of primary cognition. Metacognitive thoughts can also produce changes in thought, feeling, and...

    Published December 11th 2011 by Psychology Press