Evolution and the psychology of thinking : the debate / edited by David E. Over. - Hove, East Essex : Psychology Press, 2003. - vii, 246 p. ; 24 cm. - Current issues in thinking and reasoning . - Current issues in thinking & reasoning. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The evolutionary psychology of thinking / David E. Over -- The allocation system : using signal detection processes to regulate representations in a multi-modular mind / Gary L. Brase -- Is there a faculty of deontic reasoning? : a critical reevaluation of abstract versions of the Wason selection task / Laurence Fiddick -- Evolutionary psychology's grain problem and the cognitive neuroscience of reasoning / Anthony P. Atkinson and Michael Wheeler -- Specialised behaviour without specialised modules / Amit Almor -- From massive modularity to metarepresentation : the evolution of higherc ognition / David E. Over -- Probability judgment : from the inside and out / Steven Sloman and David E. Over -- Evolutionary versus instrumental goals : how evolutionary psychology misconceives human rationality / Keith E. Stanovich and Richard F. West.

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Cognitive psychology.
Genetic psychology.