International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning

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 for Routledge's Current Issues in Thinking & Reasoning book series.

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. The Handbook contains 35 chapters written by internationally-leading researchers, covering foundational issues as well as state-of-the-art developments in thinking and reasoning research, both in relation to empirical evidence and theoretical analyses.

1. Thinking & Reasoning: An Introduction; Linden J. Ball, University of Central Lancashire, UK and Valerie A. Thompson, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, SECTION I: FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS IN THINKING & REASONING RESEARCH, 2. Logic; Keith Stenning, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK and/or Michiel van Lambalgen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3. Mental Models; Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Princeton University, USA, 4. Probability and Bayesian Rationality; Mike Oaksford Birkbeck, University of London, UK and/or Nick Chater, University of Warwick, UK, 5. Dual-Process Theory; Jonathan St. B. T. Evans, University of Plymouth, UK, 6. Individual Differences and Reasoning; Keith E. Stanovich, University of Toronto, Canada and/or Richard F. West, James Madison University, USA and/or Maggie E. Toplak, York University, Canada, 7.Language and Pragmatics in Thinking and Reasoning; Dennis J. Hilton, University of Toulouse II, France, 8.The Development of Reasoning; Henry Markovits, Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada or Paul A. Klaczynski, University of Northern Colorado, USA, 9. Belief Bias and Reasoning; Linden J. Ball, University of Central Lancashire, UK and Valerie A. Thompson, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 10. The Neuroscience of Thinking and Reasoning; Oshin Vartanian, DRDC Toronto, Canada or Vinod Goel York University, Canada, 11. Working Memory and Thinking; Klaus Oberauer University of Zurich, Switzerland, SECTION II: DEDUCTIVE, INDUCTIVE, AND ABDUCTIVE REASONING, 12. Conditional Reasoning; David E. Over, Durham University, UK, 13. Causal Reasoning; David A. Lagnado, University College London, UK and/or Steven A. Sloman ,Brown University, USA, 14. Counterfactual Thinking; Ruth M. J. Byrne, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 15. Concepts and Category-Based Induction; Aidan Feeney, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK and/or Evan Heit, University of California, Merced, USA, 16. Analogical Reasoning; Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University, USA, 17. Abductive Reasoning and Explanation; Barbara Koslowski, Cornell University, USA, SECTION III: JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING, 18. Decision Making; David R. Shanks, University College London, UK and/or Maarten Speekenbrink, University College London, UK, 19. Judgment Heuristics; Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University, USA or Benjamin R. Newell, University of New South Wales, Australia, 20. Moral Judgement; Fiery A. Cushman, Brown University, USA or Liane Young, Boston College, USA, 21. Unconscious Influences on Decision-Making; Benjamin R. Newell, University of New South Wales, Australia and David R. Shanks, University College London, UK, SECTION IV: PROBLEM SOLVING, INSIGHT AND CREATIVE THINKING, 22. Problem Solving; Robert W. Weisberg, Temple University, USA and/or Jessica I. Fleck, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA, 23. The Neuroscience of Insight; Mark Beeman, Northwestern University, USA and/or John Kounios, Drexel University, USA, 24. Creative Thinking; Mark A. Runco, University of Georgia, USA, 25. Incubation, Problem Solving and Creativity; Kenneth J. Gilhooly Brunel University, UK and/or George Georgiou, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 26. Intuitive Thinking; Andreas Glöckner, University of Göttingen, Denmark and/or Tilmann Betsch, University of Erfurt, Germany, 27. Smart Heuristics; Gerd Gigerenzer, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, SECTION V: THINKING IN ACTION, 28. Mathematical Thinking; Jamie I. D. Campbell, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 29. Scientific Thinking; Jonathan Fugelsang, University of Waterloo, Canada and/or Kevin N. Dunbar, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada, 30. Medical Decision Making; Pat Croskerry, Dalhousie University, Canada, 31. Expert Decision Making; Neil Charness, Florida State University, USA, 32. Naturalistic Decision Making; Gary A. Klein, MacroCognition, USA, SECTION VI: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS, 33. Metacognition in Thinking and Reasoning; Valerie A. Thompson, University of Saskatchewan, Canada and/or Rakefet Ackerman, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, 34. Reasoning and Argumentation; Hugo Mercier University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland and/or Dan Sperber, CNRS, France, 35. Informal Argument Fallacies; Ulrike Hahn, Birkbeck, University of London, UK and/or Adam J. L. Harris, University College London, UK, 36. The New Psychology of Reasoning; Shira Elqayam, De Montfort University, UK and Jean-François Bonnefon, University of Toulouse, France, 37. Computational Modelling of High-Level Thought; Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA or Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, 38. Thinking and Reasoning across Cultures; Hiroshi Yama, Osaka City University, Japan, 39. Emotion and Reasoning; Isabelle Blanchette, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada, 40. Coherence, Affect and Reasoning; Sascha Topolinski, University of Cologne, Germany