Perspectives On Thinking And Reasoning

Abstract

Creating a psychology of reasoning - the contribution of Peter Wason, J.St.B.T. Evans, S.E. Newstead the effects of rule clarification, decision justification and selection instructions on Wason's abstract selection task, R. A. Griggs content effects in Wason's selection task, R.L. Dominowski pragmatic reasoning about human voluntary action - evidence from Wason's selection task, K.J. Holyoak, P.W. Cheng deontic reasoning, K.I. Manktelow, D. E. Over inference and mental models, P.N. Johnson-Laird relevance and reasoning, J.St.B.T. Evans the abstract selection - thesis, antithesis and synthesis, D.W. Green finding logic in human reasoning requires looking in the right places - a mental logic view of logical reasoning tasks, D.P. O'Brien hypothesis testing, M.E. Gorman scientific reasoning, R.D. Tweney, S.T. Chitwood the THOG problem and its implications for human reasoning, S.E. Newstead, V. Girotto, P. Legrenzi creativity in research, P.C. Wason.