Peter Cathcart Wason

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Peter Cathcart Wason is affiliated with the following schools: University College London

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#397

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Cognitive Psychology

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#49

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Cathcart Wason was a cognitive psychologist at University College, London, who pioneered the psychology of reasoning. He sought to explain why people consistently commit logical errors. He designed problems and tests to demonstrate these behaviours, such as the Wason selection task, the THOG problem and the 2-4-6 problem. He also coined the term "confirmation bias" to describe the tendency for people to immediately favor information that validates their preconceptions, hypotheses and personal beliefs regardless of whether they are true or not.

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Peter Cathcart Wason's Published Works

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Published Works

On the Failure to Eliminate Hypotheses in a Conceptual Task (1960) (1797)
Reasoning about a Rule (1968) (1401)
Psychology of Reasoning: Structure and Content (1972) (1139)
Thinking; Readings in Cognitive Science (1977) (492)
Natural and contrived experience in a reasoning problem (1971) (461)
The contexts of plausible denial (1965) (403)
A theoretical analysis of insight into a reasoning task (1970) (349)
Dual processes in reasoning? (1975) (349)
Response to affirmative and negative binary statements. (1961) (297)
The Processing of Positive and Negative Information (1959) (271)
Regression in reasoning? (1969) (185)
Insight into a logical relation (1970) (152)
Problem solving and reasoning. (1971) (140)
A CONFLICT BETWEEN SELECTING AND EVALUATING INFORMATION IN AN INFERENTIAL TASK (1970) (135)
>On the Failure to Eliminate Hypotheses...< – A Second Look (1968) (120)
Reasoning and Mental Representation (1984) (109)
Ageing and Human Skill (1960) (108)
Rationalization in a Reasoning Task. (1976) (101)
NEGATIVES: DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION. (1963) (99)
A Verbal Illusion (1979) (65)
THOG: The anatomy of a problem (1979) (57)
THE LANGUAGE OF INCONSISTENCY (1974) (56)
The Psychology of Chess (1983) (54)
The Recall of Affirmative and Negative Sentences in an Incidental Learning Task (1970) (45)
DEGREES OF INSIGHT (1972) (38)
The Effect of Self-Contradiction on Fallacious Reasoning (1964) (38)
Proving a Disjunctive Rule (1969) (30)
Reply to Wetherick (1962) (24)
The importance of cognitive illusions (1981) (22)
Notes on the Psychology of Writing (1982) (15)
Conformity and Commitment in Writing. (1980) (11)
On writing scientific papers (1970) (10)
Negation: A rejoinder to Wales and Grieve (1970) (9)
THE RETENTION OF MATERIAL PRESENTED THROUGH PRECIS (1962) (9)
Thinking: Readings in Cognitive Science@@@Knowing, Thinking, and Believing (1980) (8)
Thinking and reasoning: selected readings (1968) (7)
Psychological aspects of negation : an experimental enquiry and some practical applications (1962) (5)
Inter-Hemispheric Differences in Problem Solving (1974) (5)
PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION INDUCED BY REASONING (1966) (2)
Soap Wrappers' “Jig” (1954) (2)
Collaborative Writing Games. (1977) (1)
Book Review: Irrationality: The Enemy Within (1993) (0)
Book Review: An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology (1976) (0)
States of mind and of science (1984) (0)
Reasoning: Uncertain steps. (1975) (0)
Book Review: Abstraction and Concept Formation (1967) (0)
Book Review: Developments in Applied Psycholinguistics Research (1969) (0)

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Peter Cathcart Wason?

Peter Cathcart Wason is affiliated with the following schools:

University College London