The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual
perception and attention through to memory and language. Each chapter is complete with …

The second volume in the Blackwell Brown Lectures in Philosophy, this volume offers an
original and provocative take on the nature and methodology of philosophy. Based on public
lectures at Brown University, given by the pre-eminent philosopher, Timothy Williamson …

Much of our understanding of human thinking is based on probabilistic models. This
innovative book by Jerome R. Busemeyer and Peter D. Bruza argues that, actually, the
underlying mathematical structures from quantum theory provide a much better account of …

Current theories propose that reasoning comprises two underlying systems (Evans & Over,
1996; Sloman, 1996; Stanovich & West, 2000). The systems are identified as having
functionally distinct roles, differ according to the type of information encoded, vary according …

A quantum probability model is introduced and used to explain human probability judgment
errors including the conjunction and disjunction fallacies, averaging effects, unpacking
effects, and order effects on inference. On the one hand, quantum theory is similar to other …

Classical (Bayesian) probability (CP) theory has led to an influential research tradition for
modeling cognitive processes. Cognitive scientists have been trained to work with CP
principles for so long that it is hard even to imagine alternative ways to formalize …

The Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making is a state-of-the art overview of
current topics and research in the study of how people make evaluations, draw inferences,
and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty and conflict. Contains contributions by …

We all face a perplexing array of decisions every day. Thoroughly revised and updated
throughout, the new edition of Straight Choices provides an integrative account of the
psychology of decision making, and shows how psychological research can help us …

All else being equal, not many people would prefer to destroy the world. Even faceless
corporations, meddling governments, reckless scientists, and other agents of doom, require
a world in which to achieve their goals of profit, order, tenure, or other villainies. If our …

It is easy to construct pairs of sentences X, Y that lead many people to ascribe higher
probability to the conjunction X‐and‐Y than to the conjuncts X, Y. Whether an error is
thereby committed depends on reasoners' interpretation of the expressions “probability” and …