Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience 2013

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Thinking, Reasoning & Problem Solving

  1. The Developmental Psychology of Reasoning and Decision-Making

    Edited by Henry Markovits

    Series: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning

    This book provides a detailed account of the most current developmental approaches to reasoning and decision-making....

    To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Psychology Press

  2. New Approaches in Reasoning Research

    Edited by Wim De Neys, Magda Osman

    Series: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning

    This edited volume brings to the fore new pioneering research methods and empirical findings in the field of reasoning research....

    To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Psychology Press

  3. Emotion and Reasoning

    Edited by Isabelle Blanchette

    Series: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning

    The interaction between emotion and cognition is a fundamental issue which has only recently been reintroduced as a legitimate object of study in experimental psychology. This book examines the important impact that affective processes have on reasoning, and demonstrates how emotional reasoning...

    To Be Published September 4th 2013 by Psychology Press

  4. 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...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  5. Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking

    The Debate

    Edited by David E. Over

    Series: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning

    The field of evolutionary cognitive psychology has stimulated considerable interest and debate among cognitive psychologists and those working in related areas. In this collection, leading experts evaluate the status of this new field, providing a critical analysis of its most controversial...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  6. 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...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  7. Hypothetical Thinking

    Dual Processes in Reasoning and Judgement

    By Jonathan St. B. T. Evans

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    Hypothetical thought involves the imagination of possibilities and the exploration of their consequences by a process of mental simulation. Using a recently developed theoretical framework called Hypothetical Thinking Theory, Jonathan St. B. T. Evans provides an integrated theoretical account of a...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  8. Strategy Representation

    An Analysis of Planning Knowledge

    By Andrew S. Gordon

    Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge describes an innovative methodology for investigating the conceptual structures that underlie human reasoning. This work explores the nature of planning strategies--the abstract patterns of planning behavior that people recognize across a...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  9. 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...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  10. 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...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  11. 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...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  12. Everyday Thinking

    Memory, Reasoning, and Judgment in the Real World

    By Stanley Woll

    Appropriate as a textbook for courses in cognitive psychology or social cognition, Everyday Thinking reviews the rapidly growing literature on cognition in naturalistic settings. It differs from other textbooks in that, where possible, it focuses on thinking in real-world settings rather than in...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

  13. The Routines of Decision Making

    Edited by Tilmann Betsch, Susanne Haberstroh

    Experience is currently a hot theme in decision making. For a long time, decision research was almost exclusively focused on new decisions and neglected the importance of experience. It took the field until the 1990s for a new direction in research and theorizing to become visible in the literature...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. Goal-Directed Behavior

    Edited by Henk Aarts, Andrew Elliot

    Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

    This volume presents chapters from internationally renowned scholars in the area of goals and social behavior. The book is organized around a series of topics that are of critical importance to understanding the social-cognitive aspects of goal-directed behavior. In each chapter, the authors offer...

    Published October 18th 2011 by Psychology Press

  21. Social Judgment and Decision Making

    Edited by Joachim I. Krueger

    Series: Frontiers of Social Psychology

    This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology of judgment and decision-making in social contexts. The chapters of the first section address the basic psychological processes underlying judgment and decision-making. The guiding question is "What...

    Published October 17th 2011 by Psychology Press

  22. The Taxonomy of Metacognition

    By Pina Tarricone

    Metacognition is a complex construct which is fundamental to learning. Its complex, fuzzy and multifaceted nature has often led to its colloquial application in research, resulting in studies that fail to identify its theoretical foundation or elements. In response to this, the research community...

    Published February 27th 2011 by Psychology Press

  23. The Science of Giving

    Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity

    Edited by Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Christopher Y. Olivola

    Series: The Society for Judgment and Decision Making Series

    Americans donate over 300 billion dollars a year to charity, but the psychological factors that govern whether to give, and how much to give, are still not well understood. Our understanding of charitable giving is based primarily upon the intuitions of fundraisers or correlational data which...

    Published October 20th 2010 by Psychology Press

  24. Straight Choices

    The Psychology of Decision Making

    By Benjamin R. Newell, David A. Lagnado, David R. Shanks

    We all face a perplexing array of decisions every day. Straight Choices provides an integrative account of the psychology of decision making, in which clear connections are made between empirical results and how these results can help us to understand our uncertain world. Throughout the text, there...

    Published May 13th 2010 by Psychology Press