Thinking Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making [Hardcover]

The first international handbook to bring the areas of reasoning,judgment and decision making together, now in paperback format.

The book brings three of the important topics of thinkingtogether - reasoning, judgment and decision making ??? anddiscusses key issues in each area. The studies described range fromthose that are purely laboratory based to those that involveexperts making real world judgments, in areas such as medical andlegal decision making and political and economic forecasting.
* International collection of original chapters by leadingresearchers in the field
* Several chapters contain important new theoreticalperspectives
* Paperback version is more affordable for individualresearchersList of Contributors.

Introduction.

Part I: Reasoning.

Chapter 1: A Theory of Hypothetical Thinking (Jonathan St. B.T.Evans, David E. Over and Simon J. Handley).

Chapter 2: Individual Differences in the Development ofReasoning Strategies (Maxwell J. Roberts and Elizabeth J.Newton).

Chapter 3: Generalising Individual Differences and StrategiesAcross Different Deductive Reasoning Domains (Padraic Monaghan andKeith Stenning).

Chapter 4: Superordinate Principles, Conditions and Conditionals(Neil Fairley and Ken Manktelow).

Chapter 5: Premise Interpretation in Conditional Reasoning (GuyPolitzer).

Chapter 6: Probabilities and Pragmatics in ConditionalInference: Suppression and Order Effects (Mike Oaksford and NickChater).

Part II: Judgment.

Chapter 7: Verbal Expressions of Uncertainty and Probability(Karl Halvor Teigen and Wibecke Brun).

Chapter 8: Possibilities and Probabilities (Paolo Legrenzi,Vittorio Girotto, Maria Sonino Legrenzi and Philip N.Johnson-Laird).

Chapter 9: The ls.