Thinking and Reasoning Arena

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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The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking

• Edited by David R. Mandel, Denis J. Hilton and Patrizia Catellani.

Published July 2005

This book provides a critical overview of significant developments in research and theory on counterfactual thinking that have emerged in recent years and spotlights exciting new directions for future research in this area. Key issues considered include the relations between counterfactual and…
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The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents

• Edited by Janis E. Jacobs, and Paul A. Klaczynski.

Published May 2005

In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and delinquency as evidence of faulty judgment. Over the past 10 years, many groups - including parents,…
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The Shape of Reason

Essays in Honour of Paolo Legrenzi

• Edited by Vittorio Girotto, and Philip N. Johnson-Laird.

Published February 2005

Over the past three decades, there has been a rapid development of research on human thinking and reasoning. This volume provides a comprehensive review of this topic by looking at the important contributions Paolo Legrenzi has made to the field, by bridging the gap from Gestalt ideas to modern…
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The Cognitive Psychology of Planning

• Edited by Robin Morris, and Geoff Ward.

Published January 2005

The Cognitive Psychology of Planning assesses recent advances in the scientific study of the cognitive processes involved in formulating, evaluating and selecting a sequence of thoughts and actions to achieve a goal. Approaches discussed range from those which look at planning in terms of…
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Methods of Thought

Individual Differences in Reasoning Strategies

• Edited by Elizabeth Newton, and Maxwell Roberts.

Published November 2004

How do people make inferences? How do their reasoning processes differ and why? Methods of Thought attempts to answer these questions by looking in detail at the different reasoning strategies people apply, how these are acquired, how they are selected and how use of these strategies is influenced…
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Cognitive Illusions

A Handbook on Fallacies and Biases in Thinking, Judgement and Memory

• Edited by Rüdiger F Pohl.

Published October 2004

Cognitive Illusions investigates a wide range of fascinating psychological effects in the way we think, judge and remember in our everyday lives. At the beginning of each chapter, leading researchers in the field introduce the background to phenomena such as illusions of control, overconfidence…
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Neuroimaging of Mental Imagery

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

• Edited by Michel Denis, Stephen M. Kosslyn and Emmanuel Mellet.

Published October 2004

Many topics have inspired significant amounts of neuroimaging research in recent years, and the study of mental imagery was one of the earliest to receive a thorough empirical investigation. Twenty years later, the goal of understanding this pervasive but elusive phenomenon continues to motivate a…
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Psychology of Reasoning

Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

• Edited by Ken Manktelow, and Man Cheung Chung.

Published September 2004

This collection brings together a set of specially commissioned chapters from leading international researchers in the psychology of reasoning. Its purpose is to explore the historical, philosophical and theoretical implications of the development of this field. Taking the unusual approach of…
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Moves in Mind

The Psychology of Board Games

• By Fernand Gobet, Jean Retschitzki and Alex de Voogt.

Published August 2004

Board games have long fascinated as mirrors of intelligence, skill, cunning, and wisdom. While board games have been the topic of many scientific studies, and have been studied for more than a century by psychologists, there was until now no single volume summarizing psychological research into…
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