The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) - Hardcover

"The editors have done a wonderful job of organizing the chapters within seven topic areas and have even included a list of suggested chapters should the handbook be used as a textbook. The intended readers are experts in the field, academics, and graduate and undergraduate students. Highly recommended."
--Library Journal
"The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is a well-written and structured book that provides thorough reviews in all the main thinking and reasoning-related areas of research. The reviews not only summarize what is known on a given topic but also describe potential areas for future research. In addition, the chapters are of average length and are very well-referenced. The result is a handbook that can be used in a variety of ways for instruction at the graduate and undergraduate levels and that provides an excellent resource for researchers."
--Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books

The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning is a comprehensive and authoritative 2005 handbook covering all the core topics of the field of thinking and reasoning. Written by the foremost experts from cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience, individual chapters summarize basic concepts and findings for a major topic, sketch its history, and give a sense of the directions in which research is currently heading. The volume also includes work related to developmental, social and clinical psychology, philosophy, economics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, education, law, and medicine. Scholars and students in all these fields and others will find this to be a valuable collection.