Reading List

Thinking (50 pp)

Holyoak, K.J. & Spellman, B.A. (1993). Thinking. Annual Review of Psychology, 44, 265-315.

Problem Solving (84 pp)

Newell, A. (1985). Duncker on thinking: An inquiry into progress in cognition. In S. Koch and D.E. Leary (Eds.) A Century of Psychology as Science. New York: McGraw Hill, pp. 392-419.

Bassok, M. (1997). Object-based reasoning. In D. Medin (Ed.) The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol 37, pp. 1-39. New York: Academic Press.

Blessing, Stephen B; Ross, Brian H. Content effects in problem categorization and problem solving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Vol 22(3), May 1996, 792-810.

Analogies and Transfer (77 pp)

Gick, Mary L; Holyoak, Keith J. Schema induction and analogical transfer. Cognitive Psychology. Vol 15(1), Jan 1983, 1-38.

Novick, L.R. (1988). Analogical transfer, problem similarity, and expertise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 14, 510-520.

Burns, B.D. (1996). Meta-analogical transfer: Transfer between episodes of analogical reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 22, 1032- 1048.

Ross, B.H. & Kilbane, M.C. (1997). Effects of principle explanation and superficial similarity on analogical mapping in problem solving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 23, 427-440.

Expertise (57 pp)

Bedard, Jean. Chi, Michelene T. Expertise. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Vol 1(4), Aug 1992, 135-139.

Chi, M.T.H., Glaser, R., & Farr, M.J. (1988). The Nature of Expertise. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. xv-xxxvi.

Adelson, B. (1984). When novices surpass experts: The difficulty of a task may increase with expertise. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 10, 483-495.

Gobet, F. & Simon, H.A. (1996). The roles of recognition processes and look-ahead search in time-constrained expert problem solving: Evidence from grand-master-level chess. Psychological Science, 7, 52-55. Corrected Table 1 appears in Psychological Science, 1996 (Nov) Vol 7(6), 381.

Hinds, P.J. (1999). The curse of expertise: The effects of expertise and debiasing methods on predictions of novice performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 5, 205-221.

Logic (72 pp)

Holland, J.H., Holyoak, K.J., Nisbett, R.E., & Thagard, P.R. (1993). Deductive reasoning. In A.I. Goldman (Ed.) Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 23-41.

Woo-kyoung, A. & Graham, L.M. (1999). The impact of necessity and sufficiency in the Wason four-card seletion task. Psychological Science, 10, 237-242.

Girotto, Vittorio; Mazzocco, Alberto; Tasso, Alessandra. The effect of premise order in conditional reasoning: A test of the mental model theory. Cognition. Vol 63(1), Apr 1997, 1-28.

Rips, Lance J. The psychology of knights and knaves. Cognition. Vol 31(2), Mar 1989, 85-116.

Deductive reasoning (44 pp)

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1999). Deductive reasoning. Annual Review of Psychology, 109-135.

O'Brien, David P; Braine, Martin D. S; Yang, Yingrui. Propositional reasoning by mental models? Simple to refute in principle and in practice. Psychological Review. Vol 101(4), Oct 1994, 711-724.

Bonatti, Luca. Propositional reasoning by model? Psychological Review. Vol 101(4), Oct 1994, 725-733.

Johnson-Laird, P. N; Byrne, Ruth M. J; Schaeken, Walter. Why models rather than rules give a better account of propositional reasoning: A reply to Bonatti and to O'Brien, Braine, and Yang. Psychological Review. Vol 101(4), Oct 1994, 734-739.

Informal reasoning (89 pp)

Rips, L.J. (1990). Reasoning. Annual Review of Psychology, 41, 321 - 353.

Byrne, R.M.J. (1997). Cognitive processes in counterfactual thinking about what might have been. In D. Medin (Ed.) The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol 37, pp. 105-154. New York: Academic Press.

Holyoak, K.J. & Simon, D. (1999). Bidirectional reasoning in decision making by constraint satisfaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 3-31.

Perkins, D.N., Allen, R., & Hafner, J. (1982). Difficulties in everyday reasoning. In W. Maxwell (Ed.), Thinking: The expanding frontier (pp. 177-189). Philadelphia: Franklin Institute.

Induction (91 pp)

Smith, E.E., Langston, C., & Nisbett, R.E. (1992). The case for rules in reasoning. Cognitive Science, 16(1), 1-40.

Schwartz, Daniel L. Black, John B. Shuttling between depictive models and abstract rules: Induction and fallback. Cognitive Science. Vol 20(4), Oct-Dec 1996, 457-497.

Heit, Evan. Rubinstein, Joshua . Similarity and property effects in inductive reasoning.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Vol 20(2), Mar 1994, 411-422.

Statistical reasoning (88 pp)

Nisbett, R.E., Krantz, D.H., Jepson, C., & Kunda, Z. (1983). The use of statistical heuristics in everyday inductive reasoning. Psychological Review, 90(4), 339-363.

Johnson-Laird, P.N., Legrenzi, P., Girotto, V., Lengrenzi, M.A., & Caverni, J.P. (1999). Naive probability: A mental model theory of extensional reasoning. Psychological Review, 106, 62-88.

Nickerson, R.S. (1996). Ambiguities and unstated assumptions in probabilistic reasoning. Psychological Bulletin, 120, 410-433.

Contingency judgment (69 pp)

Kao, Shu-Fang; Waserman, Edward A. Assessment of an information integration account of contingency judgment with examination of subjective cell importance and method of information presentation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Vol 19(6), Nov 1993, 1363-1386.

Mandel, D.R. & Lehman, D.R. (1998). Integration of contingency information in judgments of cause, covariation, and probability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 269-285.

McKenzie, Craig R. M. The accuracy of intuitive judgment strategies: Covariation assessment and Bayesian inference. Cognitive Psychology. Vol 26(3), Jun 1994, 209-239.

Causal inference (83 pp)

Cheng, Patricia W. From covariation to causation: A causal power theory. Psychological Review. Vol 104(2), Apr 1997, 367-405.

Wu, M. & Cheng, P.W. (1999). Why causation need not follow from statistical association: Boundary conditions for the evaluation of generative and preventive causal powers. Psychological Science, 10, 92-97.

Einhorn, H.J. and Hogarth, R.M. (1986). Judging probable cause. Psychological Bulletin, 99, 3-19.

Morris, Michael W; Larrick, Richard P. When one cause casts doubt on another: A normative analysis of discounting in causal attribution. Psychological Review. Vol 102(2), Apr 1995, 331-355.

Categorization (72 pp)

Medin, Douglas L; Smith, Edward E. Concepts and concept formation. Annual Review of Psychology. Vol 35, 1984, 113-138.

Ross, B.H. (1999). Postclassification category use: The effects of learning to use categories after learning to classify. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 743-757.

Sloman, S.A. (1998). Categorical inference is not a tree: The myth of inheritance hierarchies. Cognitive Psychology, 35, 1-33.

Hypothesis testing (82 pp)

Klayman, Joshua; Ha, Young-won. Confirmation, disconfirmation, and information in hypothesis testing. Psychological Review. Vol 94(2), Apr 1987, 211-228.

Trope, Yaacov. Liberman, Akiva. Social hypothesis testing: Cognitive and motivational mechanisms. Higgins, Edward Tory (Ed); Kruglanski, Arie W. (Ed); et al. (1996). Social psychology: Handbook of basic principles. (pp. 239-270). New York, NY, USA: Guilford Press.

McKenzie, Craig R. M. Taking into account the strength of an alternative hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition. Vol 24(3), May 1998, 771-792.

Slowiaczek, Louisa M; Klayman, Joshua; Sherman, Steven J; Skov, Richard B. Information selection and use in hypothesis testing: What is a good question, and what is a good answer? Memory & Cognition. Vol 20(4), Jul 1992, 392-405.

Improving reasoning (42 pp)

Nisbett, Richard E; Fong, Geoffrey T; Lehman, Darrin R; Cheng, Patricia W. Teaching reasoning. Science. Vol 238(4827), Oct 1987, 625-631.

Gigerenzer, Gerd; Hoffrage, Ulrich. How to improve Bayesian reasoning without instruction: Frequency formats. Psychological Review. Vol 102(4), Oct 1995, 684-704.

Lehman, Darrin R; Lempert, Richard O; Nisbett, Richard E. The effects of graduate training on reasoning: Formal discipline and thinking about everyday-life events. American Psychologist. Vol 43(6), Jun 1988, 431-442.

Larrick, Richard P; Morgan, James N; Nisbett, Richard E. Teaching the use of cost-benefit reasoning in everyday life. Psychological Science. Vol 1(6), Nov 1990, 362-370.