Current Issues in the Psychology of Reasoning.

Evans, J. St. B. T.

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Publication Date: 1980-May

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Current Issues in the Psychology of Reasoning.

Evans, J. St. B. T.

British Journal of Psychology, v71 pt2 p227-39 May 1980

Recent studies of deductive reasoning are reviewed with respect to three questions: Do people reason logically? Is reasoning introspectible? Is reasoning sequential? It is argued that the evidence of reasoning experiments suggests a negative answer to all three questions, indicating that these experiments don't study "reasoning" in its everyday sense. (Author/SJL)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Deduction, Experimental Psychology, Literature Reviews, Logical Thinking, Problem Solving, Psychological Studies, Theories

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