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Understanding reasoning: Let's describe what we really think about

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Robert J. Sternberg
Robert J. Sternberg
Affiliation:
Office of Academic Affairs and Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078. [email protected]://osu.okstate.edu/acadaffr/
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Abstract

I suggest psychologists would more profitably study a totally different area of human reasoning than is discussed in the target article – the inductive reasoning people use in their everyday life that matters in consequential real-life decision making, rather than the deductive reasoning that psychologists have studied meticulously but that has relatively less ecological relevance to people's lives.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 34 , Issue 5 , October 2011 , pp. 269 - 270
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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