Originally published in 1982, this was an extensive and up-to-date review of research into the psychology of deductive reasoning, Jonathan Evans presents an alternative theoretical framework to the rationalist approach which had dominated much of the published work in this field at the time.

Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction Part 1: Elementary Reasoning Tasks 2 Theoretical Background 3 Sentence Verification 4 Transitive Inference Part 2: Syllogistic Reasoning 5 An Introduction to Syllogistic Reasoning 6 The Experimental Psychology of Syllogisms Part 3: Propositional Reasoning 7 An Introduction to Propositional Reasoning 8 Conditional Reasoning 9 The Wason Selection Task 10 Disjunctive Reasoning Part 4: Discussion 11 On Explaining the Results of Reasoning Experiments 12 Dual Processes and Beyond. References. Name Index. Subject Index.