Rationality and reasoning / Jonathan St. B.T Evans, David E. Over.
This book addresses an apparent paradox in the psychology of thinking. On the one hand, human beings are a highly successful species; on the other, intelligent adults are known to exhibit numerous errors and biases in laboratory studies of reasoning and decision making. There has been much debate am...
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Hove, East Sussex, UK :
Psychology Press,
©1996.
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| Series: | Essays in cognitive psychology.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Rationality in reasoning
- 2. Personal goals, utility, and probability
- 3. Relevance, rationality, and tacit processing
- 4. Reasoning as decision making : the case of the selection taks
- 5. Prior belief
- 6. Deductive competence
- 7. A dual process theory of thinking.