A. Thinking Skills Resources: Recent submissions

  • The pitfalls of premature closure: clinical decision-making in a case of aortic dissection 
    Kumar, B.; Kanna, B.; Kumar, S. (2011)
    Premature closure is a type of cognitive error in which the physician fails to consider reasonable alternatives after an initial diagnosis is made. It is a common cause of delayed diagnosis and misdiagnosis borne out of a ...
  • Errors/Biases in Clinical Decision Making 
    Lilienfeld, Scott O.; Lynn, Steven Jay (2014)
    Clinicians are subject to the same errors in thinking that affect virtually all people. In particular, practitioners must be wary of (a) the misuse of certain heuristics (e.g., availability, representativeness) and (b) ...
  • Optimism bias in managing it project risks: a construal level theory perspective 
    Shalev, Eliezer; Keil, Mark; Lee, Jong Seok; Ganzach, Yoav (2014)
    Prior research has shown that people have a tendency to be overly optimistic about future events (i.e., optimism bias) in a variety of settings. In this study, we suggest that optimism bias has significant implications for ...
  • The Flexible Correction Model: Bias Correction Guided by Naïve Theories of Bias 
    Chien, Yi-Wen; Wegener, Duane T.; Petty, Richard E.; Hsiao, Chung-Chiang (2014)
    Psychological researchers have examined a broad array of biases and shortcomings of social perceivers. Less attention has been paid to how people react when they become concerned about the possibility of bias and attempt ...
  • Is Anchoring on Estimates of Severity an Adaptive Heuristic? 
    Losee, Joy (2014)
    Decisions to either to prepare or not prepare for weather threats involve uncertainty. Uncertainty in decision making often involves the potential for making either a false positive (preparing for a storm that never ...
  • A Demonstration of the Anchoring Effect 
    Kopelman, Richard E.; Davis, Anne L. (2004)
    To guess is inexpensive; to guess wrong can be very costly. Ancient Chinese proverb. In this teaching brief, we describe a technique for demonstrating how cognitive heuristics subtly (and sometimes perniciously) affect ...
  • Re-examining our bias against heuristics 
    McLaughlin, Kevin; Eva, Kevin W.; Norman, Geoff R. (2014)
    Using heuristics offers several cognitive advantages, such as increased speed and reduced effort when making decisions, in addition to allowing us to make decision in situations where missing data do not allow for formal ...
  • Gigerenzer’s ‘external validity argument’ against the heuristics and biases program: an assessment 
    Polonioli, Andrea (2012)
    Gigerenzer’s ‘external validity argument’ plays a pivotal role in his critique of the heuristics and biases research program (HB). The basic idea is that (a) the experimental contexts deployed by HB are not representative ...
  • Cognitive Biases and the Strength of Political Arguments 
    Arceneaux, Kevin (2012)
    Competition in political debate is not always sufficient to neutralize the effects of political rhetoric on public opinion. Yet little is known about the factors that shape the persuasiveness of political arguments. In ...
  • Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases 
    Tversky, Amos; Kahneman, Daniel (1974)
    This article described three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty: (i) representativeness, which is usually employed when people are asked to judge the probability that an object or event A ...
  • Lateral Thinking 
    de Bono, Edward (2010)
    In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. What then? Lateral thinking is all ...
  • The roles of associative and executive processes in creative cognition 
    Beaty, Roger E.; Silvia, Paul J.; Nusbaum, Emily C.; Jauk, Emanuel; Benedek, Mathias (2014)
    How does the mind produce creative ideas? Past research has pointed to important roles of both executive and associative processes in creative cognition. But such work has largely focused on the influence of one ability ...
  • The Wiley Handbook of Genius 
    Simonton, Dean Keith (2014)
    With contributions from a multi-disciplinary group of expert contributors, this is the first handbook to discuss all aspects of genius, a topic that endlessly provokes and fascinates. The first handbook to discuss all ...
  • Serious Creativity 
    De Bono, Edward (1995)
    Serious creativity' will seem a contradiction in terms for many people. Everyone now knows that creativity has to be fun, lively and crazy – so how can we have serious creativity?
  • Regressive Imagery in Creative Problem-Solving: Comparing Verbal Protocols of Expert and Novice Visual Artists and Computer Programmers 
    Kozbelt, Aaron; Dexter, Scott; Dolese, Melissa; Meredith, Daniel; Ostrofsky, Justin (2014)
    We applied computer-based text analyses of regressive imagery to verbal protocols of individuals engaged in creative problem-solving in two domains: visual art (23 experts, 23 novices) and computer programming (14 experts, ...
  • The Study of the Phenomenon of Creativity in the Educational Environment 
    Palei, Tatyana; Salakhatdinova, Leisian (2014)
    The modern world has changed dramatically: now it is the world of increasing volatility, heterogeneity, diversity, and rapid changes. It has become a self-organizing system that goes out of a human control and imposes its ...
  • Creativity and the Stroop interference effect 
    Edl, Susanne; Benedek, Mathias; Papousek, Ilona; Weiss, Elisabeth M.; Fink, Andreas (2014)
    Creative potential has been variably associated with disinhibition and defocused attention, focused attention and effective cognitive control, or a flexible adaption of cognitive control. The present study examined the ...
  • The Role of Intuition in Strategic Decision Making: How Managers' Rationalize Intuition 
    Hanlon, Philomena (2011)
    This paper looks at the role of intuition in strategic decision making. While there is a considerable body of work on intuition generally empirical research on it and its use by managers is limited. Little research on ...
  • Untangling the Intuition Mess: Intuition as a Construct in Entrepreneurship Research 
    Mitchell, J. Robert; Friga, Paul N.; Mitchell, Ronald K. (2005)
    Entrepreneurs often use intuition to explain their actions. But because entrepreneurial intuition is poorly defined in the research literature: the “intuitive” is confused with the “innate,” what is systematic is overlooked, ...
  • HandBook of Intuition Research 
    Sinclair, Marta (2011)
    This groundbreaking interdisciplinary HandBook showcases the latest intuition research, integrated in a framework that reconciles various views on what intuition is and how it works. The internationally renowned group of ...

Search Think! Evidence


Browse

My Account