The subject of thinking is the oldest in the whole science of psychology, going back to well before the separation of the disciplines of philosophy and psychology. Originally published in 1983, this collection of up-to-date critical essays about thinking - with particular emphasis on reasoning - is written from the perspective of psychologists who are themselves actively engaged in research into the nature of human thought.

Contributors. Jonathan St B.T. Evans Introduction. 1 Richard A. Griggs The Role Problem Content in the Selection Task and in the THOG Problem 2 Peter C. Wason Realism and Rationality in the Selection Task 3 Stephen E. Newstead and Richard A. Griggs The Language and Thought of Disjunction 4 Paul Pollard and Jonathan St B.T. Evans The Role of 'Representativeness' in Statistical Inference: A Critical Appraisal 5 Jonathan St B.T. Evans Selective Processes in Reasoning 6 Philip N. Johnson-Laird Thinking as a Skill 7 John T.E. Richardson Mental Imagery in Thinking and Problem Solving 8 Richard Byrne Protocol Analysis in Problem Solving. Index