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Rules for reasoning
- Title
- Rules for reasoning / edited by Richard E. Nisbett.
- Publication
- Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1993.
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| Text | Request in advance | BC177 .R76 1993 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Nisbett, Richard E.
- Description
- vi, 424 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Reasoning
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- 1. Reasoning, Abstraction, and the Prejudices of 20th Century Psychology / R. E. Nisbett -- Pt. I. Establishing the Existence of Rules for Reasoning. 2. The use of statistical heuristics in everyday reasoning / R. E. Nisbett, D. H. Krantz, D. Jepson and Z. Kunda. 3. Variability and confirmation / P. Thagard and R. E. Nisbett. 4. Inductive reasoning: Competence or skill? / D. Jepson, D. H. Krantz and R. E. Nisbett -- Pt. II. Teaching Statistical Rules. 5. The effects of statistical training on thinking about everyday problems / G. T. Fong, D. H. Krantz and R. E. Nisbett. 6. Immediate and delayed transfer of training effects in statistical reasoning / G. T. Fong and R. E. Nisbett -- Pt. III. Rules for Conditional Reasoning. 7. Pragmatic versus syntactic approaches to training deductive reasoning / P. Cheng, K. J. Holyoak, R. E. Nisbett and L. Oliver -- Pt. IV. Rules for Causal Reasoning. 8. Pragmatic constraints on causal deduction / P. Cheng and R. E. Nisbett.
- 9. Tools of the trade: Deductive schemas taught in psychology and philosophy / M. W. Morris and R. E. Nisbett -- Pt. V. Rules for Choice. 10. Teaching the use of cost-benefit reasoning in everyday life / R. P. Larrick, J. N. Morgan and R. E. Nisbett. 11. Who uses the normative rules of choice? / R. P. Larrick, R. E. Nisbett and J. N. Morgan -- Pt. VI. Implications for Education. 12. Teaching reasoning / R. E. Nisbett, G. T. Fong, D. R. Lehman and P. Cheng. 13. The effects of graduate training on reasoning: Formal discipline and thinking about everyday life events / D. R. Lehman, R. O. Lempert and R. E. Nisbett. 14. A longitudinal study of the effects of undergraduate education on reasoning / D. R. Lehman and R. E. Nisbett -- Pt. VII. Implications for Cognitive Science. 15. The case for rules in reasoning / E. E. Smith, C. Langston and R. E. Nisbett.
- ISBN
- 0805812563 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0805812571 (paper : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 92039042
- OCLC
- ocm26932141
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries