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 by individual and task properties. Focusing on empirical data and research into deductive reasoning tasks, this book summarizes current trends in the field and helps us to understand how individual differences in reasoning impact on other studies of higher cognitive abilities in humans....

Usually, things can't just disappear. You may think this has happened before when you've lost a pen, your keys, your homework, or maybe even your baby brother. But that is not actually what happens at all. Usually, you have simply put it down somewhere and, afterward, forgotten where. However, in this story, you will encounter an incident where a person does disappear, and in this story, that is not so unusual because the captain and the crew of his train, Evelyn Bamford (Earthling) and Paulo Vistar (Serothian), are on an unknown planet somewhere in deep space-where just about anything could...