The shape of reason : essays in honour of Paolo Legrenzi / edited by Vittorio Girotto and Philip N. Johnson-Laird.

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 cogn...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Legrenzi, Paolo, Girotto, V., 1957-2016, Johnson-Laird, P. N. (Philip Nicholas), 1936-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hove ; New York : Psychology Press, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part Part I Problem solving
  • chapter 1 The shape of problems / Philip N. Johnson-Laird
  • chapter 2 Insight and self-insight in reasoning and decision making / Jonathan St. B.T. Evans
  • part Part II Deductive reasoning
  • chapter 3 It's good to be wrong: An analysis of mistakes in relational reasoning / Walter Schaeken and Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst
  • chapter 4 Working memory and propositional reasoning: Searching for new working memory tests / Juan A. GarcĂ­a-Madruga
  • chapter 5 Resolving contradictions / Ruth M.J. Byrne and Clare A. Walsh
  • part Part III Pragmatics, hypotheses, and probabilities
  • chapter 6 How to defocus in hypothesis testing: Manipulating the initial triple in the 2-4-6 problem / Jean-Paul Caverni
  • chapter 7 The representation of the task: The case of the Lawyer-Engineer problem in probability judgement / Guy Politzer
  • part Part IV Probabilistic judgement
  • chapter 8 Naive probability and its model theory DAVID OVER / David Over
  • chapter 9 Probabilistic reasoning and combinatorial analysis / Vittorio Girotto
  • part Part V Social and emotional aspects of decision making
  • chapter 10 A.