▪ Abstract This chapter describes the main accounts of deductive competence, which explain
what is computed in carrying out deductions. It argues that people have a modicum of …

Game theory has been one of the most prominent theories in the social sciences, influencing
diverse academic disciplines such as anthropology, biology, economics, and political …

Many people have argued that the evolution of the human language faculty cannot be
explained by Darwinian natural selection. Chomsky and Gould have suggested that …

The human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This
accessible and original monograph explores a central aspect of the imagination, the …

What counts as human rationality: reasoning processes that embody content-independent
formal theories, such as propositional logic, or reasoning processes that are well designed …

A set of experiments is reported in which a new formulation of deontic thinking is tested. This
is that people represent subjective utilities inherent in conforming to or violating deontic …

This undergraduate textbook reviews psychological research in the major areas of
reasoning and thinking: deduction, induction, hypothesis testing, probability judgement, and …

Concluding this volume on children's cognition, this chapter addresses developmental
changes in cognition that extend beyond childhood. I will not trace cognitive change across …

The area of psychological research reviewed in this book is one that is not only increasing in
popularity in college curricula, but is also making an ever larger impact on the world outside …

Examines the pragmatic schema (PS [PW Cheng and KJ Holyoak; see PA, Vol 73: 8193])
and social exchange (SE [L. Cosmides; see PA, Vol 76: 39894]) theories of human …