Classical informal reasoning" fallacies," for example, begging the question or arguing from
ignorance, while ubiquitous in everyday argumentation, have been subject to little systematic …

In this chapter, we provide a historical overview of research on bias in human cognition,
ranging from early work in psychology through the detailed, quantitative examinations of belief …

Abstract Argumentation is pervasive in everyday life. Understanding what makes a strong
argument is therefore of both theoretical and practical interest. One factor that seems intuitively …

Inspired by the principles used to market physical products, campaigns to promote pro-environmental
behaviour have increasingly emphasized self-interested (for example, economic) …

We propose that similarity is determined by the transformation distance between representations:
entities which are perceived to be similar have representations which are readily …

Wordlikeness, the extent to which a sound sequence is typical of words in a language, affects
language acquisition, language processing, and verbal short-term memory. Wordlikeness …

A robust finding in social psychology is that people judge negative events as less likely to
happen to themselves than to the average person, a behavior interpreted as showing that …

The cognitive system does not treat each new object or occurrence as distinct from and
unrelated to what it has seen before: it classifies new objects in terms of concepts which group …

… The research reported in this article is based on Ulrike Hahn's doctoral dissertation and
was, in part, carried out while the authors were at the Department of Experimental Psychology, …

… Address correspondence concerning this article to Ulrike Hahn, School of Psychology, Cardiff
University, PO Box 901, Cardiff CF1 3YG, United Kingdom E-mail: hahnu@cardiff. ac.uk or …