Human Thinking: The Basics provides an essential introduction into how we develop thoughts, the types of reasoning we engage in, and how our thinking can be tailored by subconscious processing.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part 1: Thinking: what is it and where does it come from?
1. What is 'thinking'?
2. Evolution of thinking
Part 2: Thinking as reasoning
3. Problem-solving
4. Rational thinking
Part 3: When thinking goes awry
5. Biases, errors, and heuristics
6. Society made me do it
7. The confabulating mind
Part 4: Motivated Cognition
8. Mistaken beliefs about the world
9. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing like the truth
10. Magical thinking