The first major study of how people reason in everyday life highlights the importance of argumentative reasoning in everyday thought and addresses crucial issues in cognitive ...

The Handbook of Self-Regulation represents state-of-the-art coverage of the latest theory, research, and developments in applications of self-regulation research. Chapters are ...

Volume 1 challenged the prevailing "hot" motivation vs. "cold" cognition dichotomy, and proposed instead that motivation and cognition work together in the production of ...

Intelligence takes many forms. This exciting study explores the novel insight, based on well-established ethological principles, that animals, humans, and autonomous robots can ...

An analysis of how individual preferences are formed, whether they can be predicted and the extent to which they are influenced by emotion rather than reason.

This book addresses two related topics: self-control and individual autonomy. In approaching these issues, Mele develops a conception of an ideally self-controlled person, and ...

This new collection of distinctive studies tracks developments in the most recent published work during the period 1990-95, with an integral guide and editorial commentary by ...