Evolution and the Psychology of Thinking
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Abstract Social Contract
adaptive
Adaptive Problem
Candy Canes
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Cheater Detection
cognitive modularity
cognitive neuroscience
conditional reasoning
Content Independent Reasoning
Content Specific Modules
decision making processes
deontic
Deontic Reasoning
Deontic Rules
Dual Process Theory
Eaten Cassava Root
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Euler Circles
evolutionary
evolutionary cognitive mechanisms
Feminist Bank Teller
Fundamental Computational Biases
human rationality
Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis
Massive Modularity
Massive Modularity Hypothesis
Modularity Argument
Natural Sampling
problems
reasoning
reasoning biases
rules
SD
selection
Selection Task
Signal Detection
single
Single Case Probabilities
Sodium Vapour Lamp
task
wason
Wason Selection Task
Product details
- ISBN 9781841692852
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Mar 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The field of evolutionary cognitive psychology has stimulated considerable interest and debate among cognitive psychologists and those working in related areas. In this collection, leading experts evaluate the status of this new field, providing a critical analysis of its most controversial hypotheses. These hypotheses have far reaching implications for cognition, including a modular view of the mind, which rejects, in its extreme form, any general learning or reasoning abilities. Some evolutionary psychologists have also proposed content-dependent accounts of conditional reasoning and probability judgements, which in turn have significant, and equally controversial, implications about the nature of human reasoning and decision making.
The contributions range from those that are highly critical of the hypotheses to those that support and develop them. The result is a uniquely balanced, cutting-edge evaluation of the field that will be of interest to psychologists, philosophers and those in related subjects who wish to find out what evolutionary considerations can, and cannot, tell us about the human mind.
