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Aspects of Rationality

Reflections on What It Means To Be Rational and Whether We Are

• By Raymond S. Nickerson.

Published November 2007

What does it mean to be rational – to reason well and effectively? How does rationality, broadly conceived, relate to the knowledge one acquires, the beliefs one forms, the explanations one constructs or appropriates, the judgments and decisions one makes, the values one adopts? What is the…
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Cognition and Extended Rational Choice

• By Howard Margolis.

Published October 2007

One of the most exciting recent innovations in the social sciences has been the emergence of 'behaviour economics', which extends the notion of rational choice to allow for both motivation beyond self-interest and intuitions that cannot be reduced to the logic of a situation. This new book by…
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Intuition in Judgment and Decision Making

• Edited by Henning Plessner, Cornelia Betsch and Tilmann Betsch.

Published September 2007

The central goal of this volume is to bring the learning perspective into the discussion of intuition in judgment and decision making. The book gathers recent work on intuitive decision making that goes beyond the current dominant heuristic processing perspective. However, that does not mean that…
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Expertise Out of Context

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making

• Edited by Robert R. Hoffman.

Published May 2007

Researchers have revealed that real expertise, while applied to well-defined tasks with highly circumscribed contexts, often stretches beyond its routine boundaries. For example, a medical doctor may be called upon to diagnose a rare disease or perform emergency surgery outside his or her area of…
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Thinking With Data

• Edited by Marsha C. Lovett, and Priti Shah.

Published May 2007

The chapters in Thinking With Data are based on presentations given at the 33rd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition. The Symposium was motivated by the confluence of three emerging trends: (1) the increasing need for people to think effectively with data at work, at school, and in everyday life, (2)…
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Hypothetical Thinking

Dual Processes in Reasoning and Judgement

• By Jonathan St. B. T. Evans.

Published May 2007

Hypothetical thought involves the imagination of possibilities and the exploration of their consequences by a process of mental simulation. Using a recently developed theoretical framework called Hypothetical Thinking Theory, Jonathan St. B. T. Evans provides an integrated theoretical account of a…
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Judgement and Choice: Perspectives on the Work of Daniel Kahneman

A Special Issue of Thinking and Reasoning

• Edited by David Lagnado, and Daniel Read.

Published February 2007

The work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has transformed the study of judgment and decision-making, and penetrated related disciplines such as economics, finance, marketing, law and medicine. In recognition of these achievements, Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2003. This…
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Integrating the Mind

Domain General Versus Domain Specific Processes in Higher Cognition

• Edited by Maxwell J. Roberts.

Published January 2007

There are currently several debates taking place simultaneously in various fields of psychology which address the same fundamental issue: to what extent are the processes and resources that underlie higher cognition domain-general versus domain-specific? Extreme Domain Specificity argues that…
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Social Psychology and Economics

• Edited by David De Cremer, Marcel Zeelenberg and J. Keith Murnighan.

Published June 2006

This book combines chapters written by leading social psychologists and economists, illuminating the developing trends in explaining and understanding economic behavior in a social world. It provides insights from both fields, communicated by eloquent scholars, and demonstrates through recent…
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Introducing Cognitive Development

• By Laura Taylor.

Published October 2005

Interest in cognitive development has been resurgent in recent years as a result of continuing improvements in technology and the new methods of research these enable. Introducing Cognitive Development brings a new focus and clarity to this theoretically complex area. Using numerous illustrations…
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