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  1. Judgement and Choice: Perspectives on the Work of Daniel Kahneman

    A Special Issue of Thinking and Reasoning

    Edited by David Lagnado, Daniel Read

    Series: Special Issues of Thinking and Reasoning

    The work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has transformed the study of judgment and decision-making, and penetrated related disciplines such as economics, finance, marketing, law and medicine. In recognition of these achievements, Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003. This...

    Published February 28th 2007 by Psychology Press

  2. Integrating the Mind

    Domain General Versus Domain Specific Processes in Higher Cognition

    Edited by Maxwell J. Roberts

    There are currently several debates taking place simultaneously in various fields of psychology which address the same fundamental issue: to what extent are the processes and resources that underlie higher cognition domain-general versus domain-specific? Extreme Domain Specificity argues that...

    Published January 24th 2007 by Psychology Press

  3. Social Psychology and Economics

    Edited by David De Cremer, Marcel Zeelenberg, J. Keith Murnighan

    Series: The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Series

    This book combines chapters written by leading social psychologists and economists, illuminating the developing trends in explaining and understanding economic behavior in a social world. It provides insights from both fields, communicated by eloquent scholars, and demonstrates through recent...

    Published June 20th 2006 by Psychology Press

  4. Introducing Cognitive Development

    By Laura Taylor

    Series: Psychology Focus

    Interest in cognitive development has been resurgent in recent years as a result of continuing improvements in technology and the new methods of research these enable. Introducing Cognitive Development brings a new focus and clarity to this theoretically complex area. Using numerous illustrations...

    Published October 5th 2005 by Psychology Press

  5. The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking

    Edited by David R. Mandel, Denis J. Hilton, Patrizia Catellani

    Series: Routledge Research International Series in Social Psychology

    This book provides a critical overview of significant developments in research and theory on counterfactual thinking that have emerged in recent years and spotlights exciting new directions for future research in this area. Key issues considered include the relations between counterfactual and...

    Published July 27th 2005 by Routledge

  6. The Shape of Reason

    Essays in Honour of Paolo Legrenzi

    Edited by Vittorio Girotto, Philip N. Johnson-Laird

    Series: Psychology Press Festschrift Series

    Over the past three decades, there has been a rapid development of research on human thinking and reasoning. This volume provides a comprehensive review of this topic by looking at the important contributions Paolo Legrenzi has made to the field, by bridging the gap from Gestalt ideas to modern...

    Published February 23rd 2005 by Psychology Press

  7. The Cognitive Psychology of Planning

    Edited by Robin Morris, Geoff Ward

    Series: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning

    The Cognitive Psychology of Planning assesses recent advances in the scientific study of the cognitive processes involved in formulating, evaluating and selecting a sequence of thoughts and actions to achieve a goal. Approaches discussed range from those which look at planning in terms of...

    Published January 26th 2005 by Psychology Press

  8. Methods of Thought

    Individual Differences in Reasoning Strategies

    Edited by Elizabeth Newton, Maxwell Roberts

    Series: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning

    How do people make inferences? How do their reasoning processes differ and why? Methods of Thought attempts to answer these questions by looking in detail at the different reasoning strategies people apply, how these are acquired, how they are selected and how use of these strategies is influenced...

    Published November 10th 2004 by Psychology Press

  9. Neuroimaging of Mental Imagery

    A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

    Edited by Michel Denis, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Emmanuel Mellet

    Series: Special Issues of the Journal of Cognitive Psychology

    Many topics have inspired significant amounts of neuroimaging research in recent years, and the study of mental imagery was one of the earliest to receive a thorough empirical investigation. Twenty years later, the goal of understanding this pervasive but elusive phenomenon continues to motivate a...

    Published October 6th 2004 by Psychology Press

  10. Psychology of Reasoning

    Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Ken Manktelow, Man Cheung Chung

    This collection brings together a set of specially commissioned chapters from leading international researchers in the psychology of reasoning. Its purpose is to explore the historical, philosophical and theoretical implications of the development of this field. Taking the unusual approach of...

    Published September 1st 2004 by Psychology Press