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This Collection Of Essays Focuses On Three Reasoning Problems Devised By Peter Wason - The Selection Task, The 2-4-6 Task, And The Thog Problem. Creating A Psychology Of Reasoning: The Contribution Of Peter Wason / Jonathan St. B.t. Evans And Stephen E. Newstead -- The Effects Of Rule Clarification, Decision Justification, And Selection Instruction On Wason's Abstract Selection Task / Richard A. Griggs -- Content Effects In Wason's Selection Task / Roger L. Dominowski -- Pragmatic Reasoning About Human Voluntary Action: Evidence From Wason's Selection Task / Keith J. Holyoak And Patricia W. Cheng -- Deontic Reasoning / Ken I. Manktelow And David E. Over -- Inference And Mental Models / Philip N. Johnson-laird -- Relevance And Reasoning / Jonathan St. B.t. Evans -- The Abstract Selection Task: Thesis, Antithesis, And Synthesis / David W. Green -- Finding Logic In Human Reasoning Requires Looking In The Right Places / David P. O'brien -- Hypothesis Testing / Michael E. Gorman -- Scientific Reasoning / Ryan D. Tweney And Susan T. Chitwood -- The Thog Problem And Its Implications For Human Reasoning / Stephen E. Newstead, Vittorio Girotto, And Paolo Legrenzi -- Creativity In Research / Peter Wason. Edited By Stephen E. Newstead And Jonathan St. B.t. Evans. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. English