Acknowledgement
Chapter 1. Introduction. Psychorhetoric, the interpretative function and the enigma of thought. Bias versus insight
Chapter 2. The interpretative function and the emergence of unconscious analytic thought
Chapter 3. Solving insight problems. The cognitive unconscious and the “mystery” of the creative solution
Chapter 4. Critical thought beyond biases. Demonstrate, draw a conclusion, falsify
Chapter 5. Thinking uncertainty across possible worlds: statistical illiteracy or misleading communication?
Chapter 6. Challenging the incoherence of disjunctive and framing effects in decision-making
Chapter 7. Promoting action by discourse. The power of psychorhetoric in behavioural insight and public communications
References
Index
Biography
Laura Macchi is Full Professor of Psychology of Thinking, Decision Making and Communication and of General Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Her main co-edited publications include Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making (2003), Cognitive Unconscious and Human rationality (2016), and Insight and Creative Problem Solving (2018).
'Is human thinking biased or rational? Or is it simply meaningful, like other acts of human communication? In Psychorhetoric and the Psychology of Thought, Laura Macchi demonstrates an alternative to current accounts, focusing on the interpretive gap between a question and its answer. Her approach makes sense; that is: it made me think.'
Karl Halvor Teigen, Professor Emeritus at University of Oslo, Norway
