Cognitive Illusions

Intriguing Phenomena in Judgement, Thinking and Memory
2. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-90342-5
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 494 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Cognitive Illusions explores a wide range of fascinating psychological effects in the way we think, judge and remember in our everyday lives. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, the book defines what cognitive illusions are and discusses their theoretical status: are such illusions proof for a faulty human information-processing system, or do they only represent by-products of otherwise adaptive cognitive mechanisms? Throughout the book, background to phenomena such as illusions of control, overconfidence and hindsight bias are discussed, before considering the respective empirical research, potential explanations of the phenomenon, and relevant applied perspectives. Each chapter also features the detailed description of an experiment that can be used as classroom demonstration.

Featuring six new chapters, this edition has been thoroughly updated throughout to reflect recent research and changes of focus within the field.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers of cognitive illusions, specifically, those focusing on thinking, reasoning, decision-making and memory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pohl, Rüdiger

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Cognitive illusions
Rüdiger F. Pohl
I. Thinking

1. Conjunction fallacy

John E. Fisk
2. Base-rate neglect

Gordon Pennycook & Valerie A. Thompson
3. Probability matching

Ben R. Newell & Christin Schulze
4. Framing

Anton Kühberger
5. Confirmation bias – Myside bias

Hugo Mercier
6. Illusory correlation

Klaus Fiedler
7. Illusions of control

Suzanne C. Thompson
8. Wason selection task
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
9. Belief bias in deductive reasoning

Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
II. Judgment
10. Availability

Rolf Reber
11. Judgments by representativeness

Karl H. Teigen
12. Anchoring effect

Štepán Bahník, Birte Englich, & Fritz Strack
13. Validity effect Catherine

Hackett Renner
14. Mere exposure effect

Robert F. Bornstein & Catherine Craver-Lemley
15. Halo effects

Joseph P. Forgas & Simon M. Laham
16. Overconfidence

Ulrich Hoffrage
17. Pollyanna principle

Margaret W. Matlin
III. Memory

18. Revelation effect

André Aßfalg
19. Survival processing effect

Meike Kroneisen & Edgar Erdfelder
20. Labelling and overshadowing effects

Rüdiger F. Pohl
21. Associative memory illusions

Henry L. Roediger, III, & David A. Gallo
22. Misinformation effect

Jacquie Pickrell, Dawn-Leah McDonald, Daniel M. Bernstein, & Elizabeth F. Loftus
23. Hindsight bias

Rüdiger F. Pohl & Edgar Erdfelder
24. Retrieval-induced forgetting

Oliver Kliegl & Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml
IV. Extensions
25. Suggestion and cognitive illusions

Günter Molz & Rüdiger F. Pohl

Über Autor(innen)

Rüdiger F Pohl is Professor of Psychology at the University of Mannheim, Germany. His research interests include cognitive illusions, heuristics and decision making, and autobiographical memory.