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 …

Un manuel de référence entièrement actualisé et tout en couleurs sur le fonctionnement de
la pensée humaine. Enrichi de nombreuses illustrations et questions pour se tester, il …

There has been a great expansion of research into human reasoning at all of Marr's
explanatory levels. There is a tendency for this work to progress within a level largely …

What do we communicate with causal explanations? Upon being told,“E because C”, a
person might learn that C and E both occurred, and perhaps that there is a causal …

For most of its history, the psychology of reasoning was dominated by binary extensional
logic. The so-called “new paradigm” instead puts subjective degrees of belief center stage …

Popular dual process models have characterized reasoning as an interplay between fast,
intuitive (System 1) and slow, deliberate (System 2) processes, but the precise nature of the …

Introduction Logically valid deductive arguments are clear examples of abstract recursive
computational procedures on propositions or on probabilities. However, it is not known if the …

Complex human reasoning involves minimal abilities to extract conclusions implied in the
available information. These abilities are considered “deductive” because they exemplify …

Gender differences in intuition remain debatable. Previous research found an intuitive bias
for women, but women's intuitive decision-makings sometimes were accurate. This study …

We examine two competing effects of beliefs on conditional inferences. The suppression
effect occurs for conditionals, for example,“if she watered the plants they bloomed,” when …