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Judgment pervades human experience.Do I have a strong enough case to go to trial?Will the Fed change interest rates?Can I trust this person? This book examines how people answer such questions.How do people cope with the complexities of the world economy, the uncertain behavior of friends and adversaries, or their own changing tastes and personalities?When are people's judgments prone to bias, and what is responsible for their biases?This book compiles psychologists' best attempts to answer these important questions. ... Read more

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comprehensive and must buy
comprehensive and must buy
collect most required psychology articles and I am glad this book can be published so that readers can have comprehensive knowledge in the field.

An important work on the psychology of intuitive judgment
In 1982, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky edited a volume, "Judgment under Uncertainty."This served as a culmination of their and others' research, bringing together in one volume a large number of reports on how humans make decisions under conditions of uncertainty. In short, they contended that under such conditions, people tend to use heuristics or decision-making shortcuts.This can lead to suboptimal decision-making.

Since, much research has built upon the earlier works.Indeed, there are now two streams in the research on heuristics--one fairly optimistic, exemplified by works of scholars such as Gerd Gigerenzer, and the other more pessimistic, exemplified by this particular volume, edited by Gilovich, Griffin, and Kahneman.

The introduction sets the stage for the myriad essays making up this book. The editors note in the Preface that (page xv): "The core idea of the heuristics and biases program is that judgment under uncertainty is often based on a limited small number of simplifying heuristics rather than more formal and extensive algorithmic processing.These heuristics typically yield accurate judgments but can lead to systematic error." The Introduction itself provides an historical overview of this line of work and notes some of the critiques of this body of research.

The individual essays themselves note some of the basic heuristics (or decision-making shortcuts).To illustrate: representativeness.Here, one takes a small number of cases and generalizes from these.E.g., oh, I knew a couple college basketball players and they were pretty dumb.Hence, one then generalizes and concludes that all basketball players are not so smart.In short, one generalizes from a poor sample.This is one of the roots of stereotyping, which can lead to all manner of mischief.

What is at stake with the study of heuristics and biases?These raise real questions about the common assumption that humans behave rationally, using something like a cost-benefit calculus to make decisions.This has profound implications.Much policy is based on people behaving rationally.If that assumption is wrong, then government decisions based on a flawed view of humans' decision-making isn't likely to have the desired effects.

Part Two explores new theoretical directions. One of the pluses of this volume is that it includes works by those who see heuristics as positive.For instance, an essay by Gigerenzer and colleagues makes the point that heuristics may do better as a source of decision-making than even statistical predictions.

Part Three looks at real world applications, from "the hot hand in basketball" to an evaluation of clinical judgments to political decisions.

In short, this volume covers a lot of territory.The work is not meant for Joe Six Pack.It is written by academics and may be a bit dense for some readers.But there is much at stake with the research program described in this volume.I think that many people would find the struggle to understand the arguments here as worthwhile.

I highly recommend this work.

Of vast importance
This collection of articles has its origin in the work of one of the editors (Daniel Kahneman) and Amos Tversky (now deceased) in the 1970's. The first article in the book gives an introduction to this work and a brief historical survey. This work, along with current developments, is extremely important, for it sheds light on the differences (if any) between "intuitive judgment" and judgment that is based on more quantitative, mathematical, or algorithmic reasoning. If human judgment in uncertain environments is based on a limited number of simplifying heuristics, and not on extensive algorithmic processing, this would be very important for someone who is attempting to implement or simulate human reasoning in a machine. Economics, finance, and political decision-making are other areas that need a more accurate view of human judgment. Indeed, the "rational agent" assumption in classical economics, wherein the person makes choices by assessing the probability of each possible outcome and then assigning a utility to each, is considered to be fundamental, even axiomatic. It is therefore of great interest to examine challenges to this assumption.

In order to test the rational agent assumption, experiments must be conducted to test whether indeed the human assessment of likelihood and risk does indeed conform to the laws of probability. The data obtained in these experiments must then be judged as to whether it can be used to decide between the rational agent model and models of human judgment that are based on "intuition" (however vaguely or mystically this latter term is defined).

The authors of the first article in this book discuss some of the work on these questions, in particular the research that involved comparing expert clinical prediction with actuarial methods. The latter were found to perform better than the former. Even more interesting is that the clinician's assessments of their abilities were very far from what the record of success actually indicated. Some research has also indicated that intuitive judgments of likelihood do not correspond to what is obtained by Bayesian reasoning patterns.

These results, as the authors discuss, motivated performance models that were not based on the assumption of full rationality, but rather on what is called `bounded rationality.' The developers of this model felt that the processing limitations of the human brain dictated that humans must choose very limited heuristics when engaged in decision-making.

Also of great interest, and discussed in another article in the book, is the human ability to engage in affective forecasting. The latter involves the making of decisions based on the predictions of the emotional consequences of future events. The authors study the accuracy of affective forecasting and the accompanying notion of `durability bias.' The latter notion arises when individuals attempt to estimate how long particular feelings will last, and this estimation seems to be considerably longer than what actually occurs. The authors discuss some of the reasons for the durability bias in affective forecasting. One of these is ordinary misconstrual, where events are thought to be more powerful than what are actually realized, resulting in the overestimation of the duration of the affective responses to these events. Another regards the difficulty in forecasting affective reactions to events about which much is known. In addition, the authors point to "defensive pessimism" as to another of the reasons for inaccurate affective forecasting. This allows for mental preparation for the consequences of an event, and for positive feelings when the affective duration is smaller than what had been predicted. The main emphasis of the authors' article though is much more interesting than these explanations, for it involves the notion of a `psychological immune system.' Quoting the research of many psychologists, and arguing in analogy to the ordinary biological immune system, the authors view this system as one that protects the individual from an "overdose of gloom." Further, the functioning of the psychological immune system is optimized when it is not brought into the conscious focus of the individual. This `immune neglect' however has as a consequence the durability bias, in that if an individual fails to recognize her negative affect will decrease and be subjected to psychological mechanisms that assist greatly in this diminution, then she will tend to overestimate the time duration of her emotional reactions. The authors discuss empirical studies of durability bias in their article, and discuss some of the consequences of their studies. One of these concerns the possibility that humans could be mistaken about their own internal experiences. This is a very troubling possibility, but the authors give many references that purport to support it. This research shows that not only can people be completely mistaken about their feelings toward an object, but that their actual behaviors is better evidence of their internal states than what they report verbally.

Another interesting article in the book concerns the topic of automated choice heuristics. This area has arisen as a reaction to the idea that human choice can be predicted using theoretical models of optimal choice. Instead, one must identify the heuristics the people use to simplify their choices. These heuristics are used to restrict or compress the amount of information that is processed by the human brain and also to deal with the complexity in which this information is assimilated. There are many different theories of choice heuristics, and some of these are discussed in the article. Some of these theories involve heuristics that are "deliberate", i.e. involve the elimination of aspects and slower cognitive processes, and some involve heuristics that are "automatic" and judgmental, i.e. that arise from cognitive processes that are rapid and not controllable. Judgmental heuristics is also referred to as `System 1' heuristics in the article, whereas deliberate heuristics is referred to as `System 2' heuristics. The authors give a very interesting overview of automated choice heuristics, involving choices that are based on immediate affective evaluation, and choices that are using the option that is first thought of. All of these discussions, as are all the others in the book, are extremely important. ... Read more

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In recent years the field of cognitive aging has flourished and expanded into many different disciplines.It is probably, therefore, inevitable that some of the research has become very narrow, primarily focused on "counting and classifying the wrinkles of aged behavior," rather than addressing more broad, general, and important questions.Timothy Salthouse's main goal in this book is to try to identify some of the major phenomena in the field of cognitive aging, and discuss issues relevant to the investigation and interpretation of them.He does not attempt to provide a comprehensive survey of the research literature on aging and cognition because many excellent reviews are available in edited handbooks.His principal aim is rather to stimulate readers to think about the big questions in cognitive aging research, and how they might best be answered. ... Read more

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The Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making is a state-of-the art overview of current topics and research in the study of how people make evaluations, draw inferences, and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty and conflict.

• Contains contributions by experts from various disciplines that reflect current trends and controversies on judgment and decision making.
  
• Provides a glimpse at the many approaches that have been taken in the study of judgment and decision making and portrays the major findings in the field.
  
• Presents examinations of the broader roles of social, emotional, and cultural influences on decision making.
  
• Explores applications of judgment and decision making research to important problems in a variety of professional contexts, including finance, accounting, medicine, public policy, and the law.

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i am still plowing through this material because there is so much of it. anyone who really wants to advance his or her knowledge about scientific approaches to judgment and decision making will probably find this worthwhile. ... Read more

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Kellogg’s Cognitive Psychology is clearly written, highly informative, and consistently engaging. By integrating core material in cognitive psychology with the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, Kellogg provides a broad, cutting edge view of the field today.

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Bruce Goldstein's COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY connects the study of cognition to your everyday life. This accessible book introduces you to landmark studies as well as the cutting-edge research that defines this fascinating field. To help you further experiment with and understand the concepts in the text, you can use COGLAB 2.0: THE ONLINE COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY LABORATORY. Available at www.academic.cengage.com, COGLAB contains dozens of classic experiments designed to help you learn about cognitive concepts and how the mind works. ... Read more

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Suitable for graduate-level courses in learning and educational psychology, this edition covers new developments in the teaching and learning of cognitive processes. The book links sub-disciplines of cognitive psychology - encompassing reading, writing, maths, science and teaching - to form a comprehensive and integrated model of expertise. This model provides a theoretical foundation for the overall teaching and learning process, and includes implications for classroom instruction. ... Read more

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The Social Psychology of Expertise offers an integrative perspective to the analysis of experts and expertise in organizations, social roles, management, etc. It is the first book to link the psychology of expertise to sociology, particularly the sociology of professions. By examining the converging elements of both approaches and investigating the conditions of interactions with all types of experts, The Social Psychology of Expertise makes it possible to understand the market form of expert services.

This book:
*introduces the expert role approach--a new and encompassing view on the role of experts and how to use the experts' expertise in organizations, financial markets, and environmental issues;
*enhances a mutual understanding between the psychology of expertise and the sociology of professions (for students, as well as scholars);
*provides a helpful understanding of dealing with experts in the context of organizational behavior;
*shows how we can make proper use of the experts' expertise in management and planning;
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A Good Book Overall
This book provides excellent knowledge on many aspects of expertise. It is both quite academic and practical (quite hard to find). The summary provided at the end of each section enhances understanding. It would even be better if the language can be improved a little bit. I found a few hard-to-understand sentences here and there.
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“Provides a unique perspective. I am particularly impressed with the sections on innovative design and methods to investigate cognitive aging and the integrative perspectives. None of the existing texts covers this material to the same level.”
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“The emphasis on integrating the literature with theoretical and methodological innovations could have a far-reaching impact on the field.”
-Deb McGinnis, Oakland University

The Handbook of Cognitive Aging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives clarifies the differences in patterns and processes of cognitive aging. Along with a comprehensive review of current research, editors Scott M. Hofer and Duane F. Alwin provide a solid foundation for building a multidisciplinary agenda that will stimulate further rigorous research into these complex factors.

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• Gathers the widest possible range of perspectives by including cognitive aging experts in various disciplines while maintaining a degree of unity across chapters 
• Examines the limitations of the extant literature, particularly in research design and measurement, and offers new suggestions to guide future research 
• Highlights the broad scope of the field with topics ranging from demography to development to neuroscience, offering the most complete coverage available on cognitive aging

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This is the first systematic analysis of Baldwin's genetic epistemology and its relation to the contemporary social sciences. It is prepared by ten psychologists, philosophers, and educators--including Piaget, Kholberg, and Campbell--from in-depth conceptual and empirical perspectives. This volume provides a comprehensive account of Baldwin's philosophical psychology, social and cognitive developmentalism, functionalism, symbolic interactionism, idealist aesthetics, and theoretical biology. Moreover, it provides the first bibliography and commentary of his work to appear in print. ... Read more

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Of all the psychiatric disorders, depression is by far the most common, affecting between 8 and 18 percent of the general population at some point in their lives. Although the heterogeneity of the affective disorders makes it unlikely that a single set of factors can adequately explain the full range of phenomena associated with depression, there has been a swell of research over the past two decades designed to examine cognitive factors in the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of this disorder.
Whereas early work in this area tended to examine responses of depressed persons to questionnaires assessing cognitions, more recent research has drawn both theoretically and methodologically from experimental cognitive psychology, including work in information processing, social cognition, and cognitive neuropsychology.
In an effort to examine the current state of research and theory in this area, the National Institute of Mental Health held a workshop on "The Cognitive Psychology of Depression" - this special issue is a result of that workshop. The papers represent a wide range of approaches to examining the relation between cognition and depression, and include studies assessing attention, memory, and schematic processing of both self-referential and neutral information, as well as examinations of transient mood effects and underlying brain activity. Moreover, the papers cover a diverse set of samples (including children and young and middle-aged adults, and unipolar depressed, bipolar depressed, and formerly depressed individuals) and encompass a range of severity of depressive symptoms.
Finally, a closing commentary identifies and discusses issues raised by this group of papers, and offers suggestions concerning fruitful directions for future research in the study of cognition and depression. ... Read more

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For much of the twentieth century, philosophy and science went their separate ways. In moral philosophy, fear of the so-called naturalistic fallacy kept moral philosophers from incorporating developments in biology and psychology. Since the 1990s, however, many philosophers have drawn on recent advances in cognitive psychology, brain science, and evolutionary psychology to inform their work. This collaborative trend is especially strong in moral philosophy, and these three volumes bring together some of the most innovative work by both philosophers and psychologists in this emerging interdisciplinary field.

Contributors to Volume 2:
Fredrik Bjorklund (University of Lund), James Blair (National Institute of Mental Health), Paul Bloomfield (University of Connecticut), Fiery Cushman (Harvard University), Justin D'Arms (Ohio State University), John Deigh (University of Texas at Austin), John Doris (Washington University), Julia Driver (Dartmouth College), Ben Fraser (Australian National University Research School of Social Science), Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Plank Institute), Michael Gill (University of Arizona), Jonathan Haidt (University of Virginia) Marc Hauser (Harvard University), Daniel Jacobson (Bowling Green State University), Joshua Knobe (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Brian Leiter (University of Texas at Austin), Don Loeb (University of Vermont), Ron Mallon (University of Utah), Darcia Narvaez (University of Notre Dame), Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona), Alexandra Plakias (University of Michigan), Jesse Prinz (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin), Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College), Cass Sunstein (University of Chicago), William Tolhurst (University of Northern Illinois), Liane Young (Harvard University). ... Read more

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Excellent in every way
This second volume of the series on moral psychology continues the fine quality of the first, but with a different emphasis. This time the contributors discuss what role cognitive science has in morality and ethics, but the most important part of the book is in addressing the question of why there is so much variability in ethical doctrines and social mores throughout the peoples of the world. Such diversity raises doubts on the truth of the assertion of a "universal" ethical foundation that is applicable in all cultures and contexts.

The debate on moral diversity takes the form of convergent versus divergent moral realism and is strongly dependent on the ability of each individual to conceptualize or intuit moral concepts. The "common" or "folk theory" usage of moral concepts may be very different than what "professional" philosophers put forward as ethical theories. Even further, and maybe even more interesting, is the (very plausible) assertion made in a few places in the book that contributions by professional philosophers are even completely unnecessary in dialog on ethics and morality. The arguments put forward for this are very convincing but not final, for the fact that philosophers are generally absent in everyday life when real decision-making is taking place raises considerable doubt on the need for their ideas or presence. They have no "dog in the fight" to quote one contributor to the volume. Other contributors though are not so quick to judgment, presenting the need and efficacy of the thought experiments and "armchair" methods of professional philosophers.

Debates on moral responsibility inevitably lead to questions on causation, and this topic is amply represented in this volume. At least to this reviewer, the attribution of causation to certain events is usually done so quickly and "on-the-fly" without in-depth analysis and usually not deploying sophisticated concepts. Perhaps this attribution is a useful fiction that works in the short term in order to avoid lengthy (and therefore) costly deliberations on human actions. Along these same lines, some contributors to this volume are careful to note the difference between moral and criminal responsibility.

But expediency (or pragmatism, which may be a synonym) in dealing with causation may eventually be repeated so often that it becomes codified as a timeless, objective philosophical system. This may result in what some contributors have labeled as "conversational pragmatics", which results in a much wider view of causation in public use than what is actually believed privately.

Considerations of how "ordinary" people (a class never defined in the book) use moral concepts or "moral vocabulary", results in the assertion by some contributors that a clarification or dissection of these concepts will result in a "convergence" to moral truth. Moral relativism is viewed in this framework as a kind of "statistical outlier" that in the final form (after "convergence") will be insignificant or inconsequential. Other contributors however write that moral systems are so incoherent that any sensible discussion of what is moral will always be frustrated. Attempting to collect empirical evidence on moral vocabularies will only reveal more and more divergence, they argue.

For this reviewer, the in-depth study of this book has resulted in the conviction that cognitive science has much to say about ethics and morality, and the volume forms an excellent prequel to the third and final book of the series, which deals with how the field of neuroscience has affected discussions of morality and ethics. Now labeled as `neuroethics", it will put morality and ethics where it should be: in the synapses and processes of the human brain, and it will be the predominant one in the twenty-first century. ... Read more

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This book is about how we think and how what we think shapes our attempts to manage the ongoing course of our lives. Our primary mode of thought is in the form of stories, called narratives, which help us make sense of what is going on around us and provide context for it by linking it to what has happened in the past. Moreover, narratives allow us to use the past and present to make educated guesses, called forecasts, about what will happen in the future. When the forecasted future is undesirable, we intervene to ensure that the actual future, when it arrives, is more to our liking. Narrative thought has its limits, particularly when logical rigor is required. The implications of these limits are discussed, as are the ways in which people have attempted to overcome them.
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(Psychology Press) Reviews basic issues and mechanisms; attention and memory; includes a chapter on the cognitive neuropsychology of the aging brain; and discusses the implications of age-related changes in cognitive function for everyday life. For undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Softcover. ... Read more

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An excellent reference
This primer is the best starting point for anyone interested in getting a quick yet broad picture of cognitive aging. It seems to have been written with the academic reader in mind, but is accessible enough for a popular press audience (especially the first section Basic Mecanisms).

I'd love to see a second edition of this book. A great amount of progress has been made especially in section 4 of this book, Applications, over the past 5 years. A new chapter on decision making by Mara Mather or Melissa Finucane and a chapter about technology by Art Fisk/Wendy Rogers/Neil Charness/Sara Czaja/Joseph Sharit would make for a great second edition. ... Read more

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From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to cognitive scientists: perception, attention, conceptualization, meaning, symbols, categories, schemas, perspectives, discourse context, social interaction, and communicative goals. The account of human linguistic competence emerging from this new paradigm should be extremely useful to scientists studying how human beings (not formal devices) comprehend, produce, and acquire natural languages.

The current volume brings together 10 of the most important linguists in cognitive and functional linguistics whose work is often not easily available to those outside the field. In original contributions, each of these scholars focuses on an important aspect of human linguistic competence, with a special eye to readers who are not professional linguists. Of special importance to all of the contributions are the cognitive and social interactional processes that constitute human linguistic communication. The book is of special interest to psychologists, cognitive scientists, psycholinguists, and developmental psycholinguists, in addition to linguists taking a more psychological approach to language.
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The New Science of Functional Linguistics On Parade
I was a graduate student in Math and later Economics at Harvard in the heady years during which Noam Chomsky, down Mass Ave at MIT, was revolutionizing not just linguistics, but all of psychology as well (recall his famous critique of Skinnerian behavioral psychology in his review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior, which inaugurated modern cognitive psychology). Many of my friends and acquaintances in philosophy at Harvard and MIT, including Jerry Katz who was working with Jerry Fodor at the time, were generating genuinely new insights into philosophical psychology and epistemology. I recall sitting around listening to them talk and feeling that perhaps intellectual life was something real, not just books and exams.

The two things I really liked about structural linguistics were, first, that it was a science of human behavior, and I hated then, as I do now, all of those wishy-washy types that denied that a science of human behavior was possible (in the old days it was "critical theory," while today it is "post-modernism"). Second, without knowing exactly why, I never bought either the "tabula rasa" view promoted by Locke and the other English Associationist philosophers of the time, or Kant's response, the "synthetic a priori" category of knowledge. Now I know that what was missing was sociobiology: the notion that we are evolved creatures and we have a basic nature laid down through the long, drawn-out process of gene-culture coevolution.

While Chomsky and his closest colleagues never really bought the notion that human language is an adaptation (perhaps they did not understand gene-culture coevolution), they definitely considered the existence of a universal grammar and the ease with which children acquire language to imply that humans have something like a "language module" in the brain that gives us the structure, if not the content, of language. I always accepted the idea of a language model, despite its affinity to Kant's synthetic a prior, because the facts seemed overwhelming.

Recent years have seen serious alternatives to structural linguistics and its accompanying ontological baggage. I am not a linguist and do not feel competent to judge the relative merits of the various arguments (I would actually like to see a serious attack on the new-fangled theories by members of the Chomsky camp, but I have not found one yet). Nevertheless, I can say that the development of evolutionary developmental psychology in recent years (so-called "evo-devo") does heighted the possibility of an alternative model of human language, rooted in the evolved social nature of our species. This is because we have learned that the ontogeny of the human brain, and not only its phylogeny, is deeply evolutionary: the brain development of a child is a process of what might be called "survival of the fittest" on the level of the neuronal structure of the brain. In particular, a new-born has far more neurons that a three-year old, and which neurons survive and connect to others, and which become isolated and die, is a function of the child's environment and his interaction with other intentional beings.Thus, many behaviors which early evolutionary psychology attributed to "dedicated modules" (e.g., for recognizing faces, for forming plurals, for detecting cheaters, for behaving morally) are in fact dynamically ontogenetic products of a generalized capacity for the human brain to learn and creatively intervene in its environment. The human brain is simply not modular.

Structural linguistics is extremely impressive, with numerous analytical accomplishments and its ability to explain arcane aspects of many languages. Tomasello and his colleagues appreciate this analytical virtuosity, but claim that it is base on a highly restricted set of languages, mostly related to European languages. Moreover, its several successes in formally modeling has led, they hold, to a situation where the structural linguists have become satisfied to develop more and more arcane theoretical points, without the need to verify them in terms of real human linguistic behavior.

The most important weakness of the traditional theory, Tomasello suggests, is that its evidence is almost exclusively based on written language, and there is a huge gap between written texts and oral behavior. Tomasello and his colleagues, by contrast, base their models on "spontaneous spoken speech" (SSS). Based on speech, they argue that "there are very few if any specific grammatical constructions or markers that are universally present in all languages...Typological research has also established beyond a reasonable doubt that not only are specific grammatical constructions not universal, but basically none of the so-called minor word classes of English...are universal across languages either." (p. 5)

I am embarrassed to say that I find the studies deployed in this edited collection persuasive, but I still yearn for the structural diagrams and formal mathematical language of the structuralist school. So sue me.

Clear functionalism
This book is a welcome and clear-headed exposition of functional approaches to linguistics, from a lot of perspectives.

Here's the contents:

M. Tomasello -- Introduction to the Volume: Some Surprises for Psychologists.
L. Talmy -- Concept Structuring Systems in Language.
J. DuBois -- Discourse and Grammar.
S. Kemmer -- Human Cognition and the Elaboration of Events: Some Universal Conceptual Categories.
C. Ford, B. Fox, S. Thompson -- Social Interaction and Grammar.
J. Bybee -- Cognitive Processes in Grammaticalization.
K. van Hoek -- Pronouns and Point of View: Cognitive Principles of Coreference.
B. Comrie -- On Explaining Language Universals.
M. Haspelmath -- The Geometry of Grammatical Meaning: Semantic Maps and Crosslinguistic Comparison.
C. Fillmore, P. Kay, M.C. O'Connor -- Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of "Let Alone"

Amazon doesn't have editorial desdescription on this book, so I'll quote the publisher's blurb:

"From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to cognitive scientists: perception, attention, conceptualization, meaning, symbols, categories, schemas, perspectives, discourse context, social interaction, and communicative goals.
The account of human linguistic competence emerging from this new paradigm should be extremely useful to scientists studying how human beings (not formal devices) comprehend, produce, and acquire natural languages. The current volume brings together 10 of the most important linguists in cognitive and functional linguistics whose work is often not easily available to those outside the field. In original contributions, each of these scholars focus on an important aspect of human linguistic competence, with a special eye to readers who are not professional linguists. Of special importance to all of the contributions are the cognitive and social interactional processes that constitute human linguistic communication. The book should be of special interest to psychologists, cognitive scientists, psycholinguists, and developmental psycholinguists, in addition to linguists taking a more psychological approach to language." ... Read more

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Schizophrenic patients have bizarre experiences which reflect a disorder in the contents of consciousness. For example, patients hear voices talking about them or they are convinced that alien forces are controlling their actions. Their abnormal behaviour includes incoherence and lack of will. In this book an explanation of these baffling signs and symptoms is provided using the framework of cognitive neuropsychology. The cognitive abnormalities that underlie these signs and symptoms suggest impairment in a system which constructs and monitors representations of certain abstract (especially mental) events in consciousness. For example, schizophrenic patients can no longer construct representations of their intentions to act. Thus, if actions occur, these will be experienced as coming out of the blue and hence can seem alien. The patient who lacks awareness of his own intentions will stop acting spontaneously and hence will show a lack of will. The psychological processes that are abnormal in schizophrenia can be related to underlying brain systems using evidence from human and animal neuropsychology. Interactions between prefrontal cortex and other parts of the brain, especially temporal cortex appear critical for constructing the contents of consciousness. It is these interactions that are likely to be impaired in schizophrenia. ... Read more

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