The field of thinking has undergone a revolution in recent years, opening itself up to new perspectives and applications. The traditional focus on laboratory-based thinking has transformed as theoretical work is now being applied to new contexts and real-world issues. This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of human thinking in everyday life, based around, and in tribute to, one of the field s most eminent figures: Ken Manktelow.
In this collection of cutting-edge research, Manktelow s collaborators and colleagues review a wide range of important and developing areas...
The field of thinking has undergone a revolution in recent years, opening itself up to new perspectives and applications. The traditional focus on ...
An aberrant belief is extreme or unusual in nature. In the most serious cases these beliefs cause emotional distress in those who hold them, and typify the core symptoms of psychological disorders. Each of the chapters in this volume seeks to examine the role that biases in reasoning can play in the formation of aberrant beliefs.
The chapters consider several conjectures about the role of reasoning in aberrant belief, including the role of the jumping to conclusion bias in delusional beliefs, the probabilistic bias in paranormal beliefs, the role of danger confirming reasoning in...
An aberrant belief is extreme or unusual in nature. In the most serious cases these beliefs cause emotional distress in those who hold them, and ty...
The field of thinking has undergone a revolution in recent years, opening itself up to new perspectives and applications. The traditional focus on laboratory-based thinking has transformed as theoretical work is now being applied to new contexts and real-world issues. This volume presents a state-of-the-art survey of human thinking in everyday life, based around, and in tribute to, one of the field s most eminent figures: Ken Manktelow.
In this collection of cutting-edge research, Manktelow s collaborators and colleagues review a wide range of important and developing areas...
The field of thinking has undergone a revolution in recent years, opening itself up to new perspectives and applications. The traditional focus on ...