علم نفس الفكر البشري / The Psychology of Human Thought

This idea for an edited textbook, The Psychology of Human Thought: An Introduction, is motivated by our view that much of the “action” in psychological science today involves the study of human thought (as witnessed by the success of books such as Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, 2011, and of Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought, 2007, both of which became best-sellers).
The excitement of the field notwithstanding, we were able to find only two textbooks on the topic of human thought (Manktelow, 2012; Minda, 2015).
Yet, a course on “Thinking” (or any of its related course names) is one of the most exciting in psychology.
Such a course, taught at the undergraduate level by the late Professor Alexander Wearing, was part of what motivated RJS to enter the field of complex cognition.
Because of the scarcity of recent textbooks covering the broad range of this field, it seemed timely to present a new one edited and authored by experts in the field of human thought
This volume is intended as a primary or secondary textbook for courses on what we call “The Psychology of Human Thought”, which can take a number of different names, such as The Psychology of Human Thought, Thinking, Reasoning, Problem Solving, Decision Making, Complex Processes, Higher Processes, Complex Cognition, Higher Cognition, or similar titles.
The course is usually taught at the third (college junior) undergraduate level, or one level higher than courses on Cognitive Psychology.
Many students with an interest in cognition take the cognitive psychology or cognitive science course first, followed by the more advanced course on human thought.