Part 1: Thinking: what is it and where does it come from?
1. What is ‘thinking’?
2. Evolution of thinking
Part 2: Thinking as reasoning
3. Problem-solving
4. Rational thinking
Part 3: When thinking goes awry
5. Biases, errors, and heuristics
6. Society made me do it
7. The confabulating mind
Part 4: Motivated Cognition
8. Mistaken beliefs about the world
9. The truth, the whole truth, and nothing like the truth
10. Magical thinking
Biography
S. Ian Robertson gained his PhD from the Open University, UK, on ‘Problem Solving from Textbook Examples’. He has published work on portable computing as well as articles and books on problem solving. He was the Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Bedfordshire from 2001 to 2014 when he retired.
