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Cognitive illusions : a handbook on fallacies and biases in thinking, judgement and memory

Author:Rüdiger Pohl

Print Book, English, 2004

Edition:1st ed View all formats and editions

Publisher: Psychology Press, New York, NY, 2004

Physical Description:xii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9781841693514, 1841693510

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:123345788

Subjects:

Contents:

List of tables and figures

vii

List of contributors

xi

Introduction: Cognitive illusions

1

(20)

Rudiger F. Pohl

PART I Illusions of thinking

21

(124)

Conjunction fallacy

23

(20)

John E. Fisk

Base rates in Bayesian inference

43

(18)

Michael H. Birnbaum

Statistical formats in Bayesian inference

61

(18)

Stephanie Kurzenhauser

Andrea Lucking

Confirmation bias

79

(18)

Margit E. Oswald

Stefan Grosjean

Illusory correlation

97

(18)

Klaus Fiedler

Illusions of control

115

(12)

Suzanne C. Thompson

Biases in deductive reasoning

127

(18)

Jonathan St. B. T. Evans

PART II Illusions of judgement

145

(128)

Availability

147

(18)

Rolf Reber

Judgements by representativeness

165

(18)

Karl H. Teigen

Anchoring effect

183

(18)

Thomas Mussweiler

Birte Englich

Fritz Strack

Validity effect

201

(14)

Catherine Hackett Renner

Mere exposure effect

215

(20)

Robert F. Bornstein

Catherine Craver-Lemley

Overconfidence

235

(20)

Ulrich Hoffrage

Pollyanna Principle

255

(18)

Margaret W. Matlin

PART III Illusions of memory

273

(124)

Moses illusion

275

(18)

Heekyeong Park

Lynne M. Reder

Orientation illusions in memory

293

(16)

Gregory V. Jones

Maryanne Martin

Associative memory illusions

309

(18)

Henry L. Roediger III

David A. Gallo

Effects of labelling

327

(18)

Rudiger F. Pohl

Misinformation effect

345

(18)

Jacqueline E. Pickrell

Daniel M. Bernstein

Elizabeth F. Loftus

Hindsight bias

363

(16)

Rudiger F. Pohl

Illusions of change or stability

379

(18)

Anne Wilson

Michael Ross

Perspectives

397

(26)

Suggestion and illusion

399

(24)

Vladimir A. Gheorghiu

Gunter Molz

Rudiger F. Pohl

Author Index

423

(10)

Subject Index

433