edited by Vittorio Girotto and Philip N. Johnson-Laird.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Psychology Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvi, 231 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Shape of problems / Philip N. Johnson-Laird -- Insight and self-insight in reasoning and decision making / Jonathan St. B.T. Evans -- It's good to be wrong / Walter Schaeken and Jean-Baptiste van der Henst -- Working memeory and propositional reasoning / Juan A. Garcia-Madruga [and others] -- Resolving contradictions / Ruth M.J. Byrne and Clare A. Walsh -- How to defocus in hypothesis testing / Jean-Paul Caverni, Sandrine Rossi and Jean-Luc Peris -- Representation of the task / Guy Politzer and Laura Macchi -- Naive probability and its model theory / David Over -- Probabilistic reasoning and combinatorial analysis / Vittorio Girotto and Michel Gonzalez -- Affect and argument / David W. Green -- Reasoning together / Fabrizio Butera and Celine Buchs -- Heuristics and biases in attitudes towards herbal medicines / Erica Carlisle and eldar Shafir.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This volume draws on both traditional and new topics in reasoning and thinking to provide a wide-ranging survey of human thought. It covers creativity, problem solving, the linguistic and social aspects of reasoning and judgement, and the social and emotional aspects of decision making through telling examples, such as the cognitive mechanisms underlying consumers' attitudes towards herbal medicines. It considers a series of key questions, such as how do individuals who are unfamiliar with logic reason? And how do they make choices if they are unfamiliar with the probability calculus and decision theory?"--Jacket.