Cognitive Psychology Arena

Experimental Philosophy and its Critics

• Edited by Joachim Horvath, and Thomas Grundmann.

Published April 2012

Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The…
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Thinking and Reasoning

An Introduction to the Psychology of Reason, Judgment and Decision Making

• By Ken Manktelow.

Published February 2012

Drawing upon research originally cited in Ken Manktelow’s highly successful publication Reasoning and Thinking, this completely rewritten textbook reflects on the revolutionary changes that have occurred in the field in recent years, stemming from the huge expansion in research output, as well as…
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Goal-Directed Behavior

• Edited by Henk Aarts, and Andrew Elliot.

Published October 2011

This volume presents chapters from internationally renowned scholars in the area of goals and social behavior. The book is organized around a series of topics that are of critical importance to understanding the social-cognitive aspects of goal-directed behavior. In each chapter, the authors offer…
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Social Judgment and Decision Making

• Edited by Joachim I. Krueger.

Published October 2011

This volume brings together classic key concepts and innovative theoretical ideas in the psychology of judgment and decision-making in social contexts. The chapters of the first section address the basic psychological processes underlying judgment and decision-making. The guiding question is "What…
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Rethinking the Knowledge Controversy in Organization Studies

A Generative Uncertainty Perspective

• By Walter R. Nord, and Ann F. Connell.

Published March 2011

Recently the field of organization studies has been plagued by intense, disruptive controversy about what counts as knowledge. This book, written by the major researchers and voices in the field of organization studies, attempts to respond to this controversy by offering the topic of "generative…
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Neuroscience of Decision Making

• Edited by Oshin Vartanian, and David R. Mandel.

Published March 2011

The intersection between the fields of behavioral decision research and neuroscience has proved to be fertile ground for interdisciplinary research. Whereas the former is rich in formalized models of choice, the latter is rife with techniques for testing behavioral models at the brain level. As a…
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The Taxonomy of Metacognition

• By Pina Tarricone.

Published February 2011

Metacognition is a complex construct which is fundamental to learning. Its complex, fuzzy and multifaceted nature has often led to its colloquial application in research, resulting in studies that fail to identify its theoretical foundation or elements. In response to this, the research community…
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A Handbook of Process Tracing Methods for Decision Research

A Critical Review and User’s Guide

• Edited by Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck, Anton Kuehberger and Rob Ranyard.

Published October 2010

This handbook provides a critical review and user’s guide to conducting and reporting process tracing studies of decision making. Each chapter covers a specific method that is presented and reviewed by authors who are experts in the method’s application to decision research. The book …
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Perspectives on Framing

• Edited by Gideon Keren.

Published October 2010

Language comprises a major mark of humans compared with other primates and is the main vehicle for social interaction. A major characteristic of any natural language is that the same communication, idea, or intention can be articulated in different ways—in other words, the same message can be "…
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The Science of Giving

Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity

• Edited by Daniel M. Oppenheimer, and Christopher Y. Olivola.

Published October 2010

Americans donate over 300 billion dollars a year to charity, but the psychological factors that govern whether to give, and how much to give, are still not well understood. Our understanding of charitable giving is based primarily upon the intuitions of fundraisers or correlational data which…
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