The New Reflectionism in Cognitive Psychology

This volume presents detailed reviews and will be of use to anyone interested in the strengths and weaknesses of human reason. This volume will also be of use to both proponents and skeptics of dual-process theory as it represents a strong case for the wide theoretical significance of the distinction between intuition and reflection. The empirical evidence indicates that analytic thinking plays a significant role in everyday life. Reason does, in fact, matter.

Gordon Pennycook is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, USA.

List of contributors 1. Why reason matters: An introduction GORDON PENNYCOOK 2. Reflective thought, religious belief, and the social foundations hypothesis JONATHAN MORGAN, CONNOR WOOD, AND CATHERINE CALDWELL-HARRIS 3. Towards understanding intuition and reason in paranormal beliefs MARJAANA LINDEMAN 4. The Earth is flat! Or is it?: How thinking analytically might just convince you the Earth isn't flat VIREN SWAMI 5. The Moral Myopia Model: Why and how reasoning matters in moral judgment JUSTIN F. LANDY AND EDWARD B. ROYZMAN 6. Intuition, reason, and creativity: An integrative dual-process perspective NATHANIEL BARR 7. Why reason matters: Connecting research on human reason to the challenges of the Anthropocene NATHANIEL BARR AND GORDON PENNYCOOK Index