Cognitive Psychology Arena

Studying Judgment: Models and Methods

A Special Issue of Thinking and Reasoning

• Edited by Nigel Harvey

There are many different ways of studying human judgement. Individual researchers into the subject tend to focus on just one or two of them and...

Published January 4th 2001 by Psychology Press.

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Hypothesis-testing Behaviour

• By Fenna H. Poletiek

How do people search evidence for a hypothesis? A well documented answer in cognitive psychology is that they search for confirming evidence. However, the rational...

Published December 14th 2000 by Psychology Press.

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Psychology and 'Human Nature'

• By Peter Ashworth

Psychology and 'Human Nature' problematizes what psychology usually takes for granted - the meaning of the psyche or 'human nature'. Peter Ashworth provides a coherent...

Published September 14th 2000 by Routledge.

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Understanding Driving

Applying Cognitive Psychology to a Complex Everyday Task

• By John A. Groeger

This book closely examines what is involved in driving. It identifies the aspects of perception, attention, learning, memory, decision making and action control which are...

Published August 31st 2000 by Routledge.

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Exploring Borders

Understanding Culture and Psychology

• By Giuseppe Mantovani

In Exploring Borders Giuseppe Mantovani highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organising our experience. He emphasises the differences across...

Published June 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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Essential Cognitive Psychology

• By Alan J. Parkin

This new textbook provides a clear, fundamental grounding in cognitive psychology for beginning undergraduates. Essential Cognitive Psychology fills the void between low level introductory texts...

Published April 6th 2000 by Psychology Press.

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Imagery in Working Memory and Mental Discovery

A Special Issue of the European Cognitive Psychology

• By Tore Helstrup, Robert H. Logie

The topic of mental imagery has reached a stage of considerable maturity with a large published literature and a wide range of experimental paradigms now...

Published October 28th 1999 by Psychology Press.

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Evaluative Semantics

Cognition, Language and Ideology

• By Jean-Pierre Malrieu

Evaluation, from connotations to complex judgements of value, is probably the most neglected dimension of meaning. Calling for a new understanding of truth and...

Published July 29th 1999 by Routledge.

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Social Context and Cognitive Performance

Towards a Social Psychology of Cognition

• By Pascal Huguet, Jean-Marc Monteil

Based on twenty years of research on the social regulation of academic performances, this book offers theoretical and empirical arguments in favour of the inclusion...

Published June 17th 1999 by Psychology Press.

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An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Processes and Disorders

• By David Groome

David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and Nicola Towell.

An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a comprehensive textbook...

Published April 29th 1999 by Psychology Press.

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