David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and
Nicola Towell. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a …

Investigations on heuristics and biases have had a great impact on the study of reasoning
and related higher cognitive processes, such as judgment and decision making. Specifically …

Empathy is frequently described in opposition to rationality. Yet in two studies, we
demonstrate that the relationship between rationality and empathy is nuanced and likely …

In argumentation, metaphors are often considered as ambiguous or deceptive uses of
language leading to fallacies of reasoning. However, they can also provide useful insights …

The first reference on rationality that integrates accounts from psychology and philosophy,
covering descriptive and normative theories from both disciplines. Both analytic philosophy …

Emotional intelligence refers to an ability to recognize the meanings of emotion and their
intricate relationships, and to reason and problem-solve based on them (Mayer et al. 1999) …

The use of emotions in the communication content of entrepreneurial projects on
crowdfunding platforms has been associated with fundraising performance. Other studies …

Emotional content can have either a deleterious or a beneficial impact on logicality. Using
standard deductive-reasoning tasks, we tested the hypothesis that the interplay of two …

There is evidence of a detrimental effect of emotion on reasoning. Recent studies suggest
that this relationship is mediated by working memory, a function closely associated with the …

Before we proceed, we would like you to try a demonstration that you may well have done
before. In the box below is a dot. Close your left eye and hold the book about 5 cm from your …