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Essay heading: Investigating the ‘Belief Bias’ Effect in Human Reasoning
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May 27, 2002 |
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In the broader history of psychology, earlier than the mid 1960’s, there was a general assumption that we were quite logical in our decision making processes, such as in the case of deductive reasoning, whether of the ‘philosophers’ variety (Henle, 1962) or of an alternative ‘natural’ type (Braine, 1978), indicating that intelligence could be a predictor of logicality... displayed 300 characters
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However this view was to be challenged with much research in arising from the late 60’s/early 70’s, which focused on thinking and reasoning, and the obvious biases that we come to when making decisions.
Rationality is defined as ‘the possession of reason’ (Dictionary.com), making it an interesting topic, underpinning the field of cognitive psychology, ‘the mental processes of perception, memory, judgement and reasoning’ (Dictionary... displayed next 300 characters
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