Thinking, Reasoning and Problem Solving
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Everyday Thinking
Memory, Reasoning, and Judgment in the Real World
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
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Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking
The Debate
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
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Foundations for Tracing Intuition
Challenges and Methods
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
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Hypothetical Thinking
Dual Processes in Reasoning and Judgement
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
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Integrating the Mind
Domain General Versus Domain Specific Processes in Higher Cognition
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
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Methods of Thought
Individual Differences in Reasoning Strategies
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
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Mindreaders
The Cognitive Basis of "Theory of Mind"
Theory of mind, or "mindreading" as it is termed in this book, is the ability to think about beliefs, desires, knowledge and intentions. It has been studied extensively by developmental and comparative psychologists and more recently by neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists. This book is the...
Published October 21st 2012 by Psychology Press
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Moves in Mind
The Psychology of Board Games
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
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Psychology of Reasoning
Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
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
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Scientific and Technological Thinking
At the turn of the 21st century, the most valuable commodity in society is knowledge--particularly new knowledge that may give a culture, company, or laboratory an adaptive advantage. Knowledge about the cognitive processes that lead to discovery and invention can enhance the probability of making...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Strategy Representation
An Analysis of Planning Knowledge
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
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The Cognitive Psychology of Planning
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
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The Interface of Language, Vision, and Action
Eye Movements and the Visual World
This book brings together chapters from investigators on the leading edge on this new research area to explore on the leading edge on this new research area to explore common theoretical issues, empirical findings, technical problems, and outstanding questions. This book will serve as a blueprint...
Published October 28th 2012 by Psychology Press
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The Routines of Decision Making
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
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The Science of Reason
A Festschrift for Jonathan St B.T. Evans
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
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The Shape of Reason
Essays in Honour of Paolo Legrenzi
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