Linden J. Ball - The Routledge international handbook of thinking and reasoning

If there is any doubt that the field of thinking and reasoning is central to current psychological science, this Handbook should dispel those doubts. I cant imagine a young scholar in cognitive science who wouldnt find something of interest in this set of up-to-date empirical and theoretical chapters.

Keith E. Stanovich, University of Toronto, author of The Rationality Quotient

This book offers authoritative overviews of every major topic in reasoning research, written by leading scholars from around the world. Its 35 chapters capture the fields history as well as its exciting cutting-edge developments, making this Handbook a valuable resource for years to come.

Norbert Schwarz, University of Southern California

The Routledge International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning brings together an impressive collection of highly esteemed experts and represents a comprehensive review of the psychology of thought. While it may appeal most to academics working in the field, it also represents a useful resource for anyone interested in the characteristics of the human mind and the underlying cognitive processes that constitute our reasoning.

Gordon Pennycook, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

The Routledge International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is an authoritative reference work providing a well-balanced overview of current scholarship spanning the full breadth of the rapidly developing and expanding field of thinking and reasoning. It contains 35 chapters by leading international researchers, covering foundational issues as well as state-of-the-art developments, both in relation to empirical evidence and theoretical analyses.

Topics covered range across all sub-areas of thinking and reasoning, including deduction, induction, abduction, judgment, decision making, argumentation, problem solving, expertise, creativity and rationality. The contributors engage with cutting-edge debates and pressing conceptual issues such as the status of dual-process theories of thinking, the role of unconscious, intuitive, emotional and metacognitive processes in thinking and the importance of probabilistic conceptualisations of thinking and reasoning. In addition, authors examine the importance of neuroscientific findings in informing theoretical developments, as well as the situated nature of thinking and reasoning across a range of real-world contexts such as mathematics, medicine and science.

The Handbook provides a clear sense of the way in which contemporary ideas are challenging traditional viewpoints in what is now referred to as the new paradigm psychology of reasoning. This paradigm-shifting research is paving the way toward a far richer and more encompassing understanding of the nature of thinking and reasoning, where important new questions drive a forward-looking research agenda. It is essential reading for both established researchers in the field of thinking and reasoning as well as advanced students wishing to learn more about both the historical foundations and the very latest developments in this rapidly growing area.

Linden J. Ball is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Dean of Psychology at the University of Central Lancashire. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Associate Editor of Thinking & Reasoning and Editor of Routledges Current Issues in Thinking & Reasoning book series.

Valerie A. Thompson is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan. She is Past President of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Thinking & Reasoning.

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We would like to dedicate this Handbook to our academic advisors, who mentored and inspired us:

Linden to Jonathan St. B. T. Evans, who helped to set me off down the fascinating path of thinking and reasoning research and who was always an exemplar of what it means to be an exceptional cognitive scientist.

Valerie to the memory of Allan Paivio, who was a model of experimental rigour, theoretical precision, and integrity in and out of the laboratory. I constantly aspire to meet the stellar standard he set.