The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Critical evaluation skills when using online information are considered important in many
research and education frameworks; critical thinking and information literacy are cited as key …

Cognitive capacity is commonly assumed to predict performance in classic reasoning tasks
because people higher in cognitive capacity are believed to be better at deliberately …

Children and adults tend to imitate actions that are causally irrelevant to accomplishing a
goal; they “over-imitate.” It has been discussed that humans over-imitate either because of …

Aesthetics of package design is an important consideration when consumers make
purchase decisions. We argue that this is particularly the case for purchase decision of …

Bilinguals, in their foreign language, are spared from several decision-making biases. We
examined this “Foreign Language Effect” in the context of logical reasoning, in which …

A common explanation for individual differences in the ability to draw rule-based inferences,
when a putative conclusion suggests a competing belief-based inference, is that the ability …

The belief bias in reasoning occurs when individuals are more willing to accept conclusions
that are consistent with their beliefs than conclusions that are inconsistent. The present study …

We investigate whether non-miserly cognitive styles mediate the effects of cognitive ability
and thinking dispositions on rational thought. Specifically, we review relevant literature on …

Belief bias is the tendency in syllogistic reasoning to rely on prior beliefs rather than to fully
obey logical principles. Few studies have investigated the age effect on belief bias. Although …