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Psychology of reasoning

Known as: Psychology of reason, Psychology of thinking, Psychology of thinking and reasoning 
The psychology of reasoning is the study of how people reason, often broadly defined as the process of drawing conclusions to inform how people solve… 
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2017
2017
Conditionals, Counterfactuals, and Rational Reasoning: An Experimental Study on Basic Principles
We present a unified approach for investigating rational reasoning about basic argument forms involving indicative conditionals… 
Review
2014
Review
2014
Reasoning About Uncertain Conditionals
There is a long tradition in formal epistemology and in the psychology of reasoning to investigate indicative conditionals. In… 
2013
2013
New ambitions for a new paradigm: Putting the psychology of reasoning at the service of humanity
To what extent can the psychology of reasoning “serve humanity”? Three case studies suggest that the psychology of reasoning has… 
Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
The new psychology of reasoning: A mental probability logical perspective
Mental probability logic (MPL) has been proposed as a competence theory of human inference. MPL interprets indicative… 
2012
2012
Why do we punish groups? High entitativity promotes moral suspicion ☆
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Conditional Probability and the Cognitive Science of Conditional Reasoning
This paper addresses the apparent mismatch between the normative and descriptive literatures in the cognitive science of… 
1992
1992
Transitivity judgments, memory for premises, and models of children's reasoning
Review
1989
Review
1989
A perspective on thinking.
Research on general thinking abilities-productive, higher order, critical and creative thinking-has progressed slowly compared… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Why are some problems hard? Evidence from Tower of Hanoi
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Psychology of Reasoning: Structure and Content
'Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time… 
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