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Cognition and Communication Judgmental Biases, Research Methods, and the Logic of Conversation
By Norbert Schwarz
Copyright 1996
128 Pages
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Psychology Press
124 Pages
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Psychology Press
128 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Psychological research into human cognition and judgment reveals a wide range of biases and shortcomings. Whether we form impressions of other people, recall episodes from memory, report our attitudes in an opinion poll, or make important decisions, we often get it wrong. The errors made are not trivial and often seem to violate common sense and basic logic. A closer look at the underlying... Read more
Contents: Cognition, Communication, and the Fallacies of Human Judgment. Cognition and Communication: The Logic of Conversation. The Conversational Relevance of "Irrelevant" Information. Questions, Innuendos, and Assertions of the Obvious. The Conversational Relevance of Formal Features of Questionnaires. Making One's Contribution Informative: The Changing Meaning of Repeated Questions. Judgment in a Social Context: (Some) Conclusions.
Biography
Norbert Schwarz
"...does a good job of summarizing complex research and theory related to language and cognition."
—Studies in Second Language Acquisition
