Distinctions have been proposed between systems of reasoning for centuries. This article
distills properties shared by many of these distinctions and characterizes the resulting …

The authors describe a constructionist theory that accounts for the knowledge-based
inferences that are constructed when readers comprehend narrative text. Readers …

In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as
memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition--the functions in which the …

How is it possible to think new thoughts? What is creativity and can science explain it? And
just how did Coleridge dream up the creatures of The Ancient Mariner? When The Creative …

Conceptual integration—“blending”—is a general cognitive operation on a par with analogy,
recursion, mental modeling, conceptual categorization, and framing. It serves a variety of …

Analogy and similarity are often assumed to be distinct psychological processes. In contrast
to this position, the authors suggest that both similarity and analogy involve a process of …

The authors propose that superstars are most likely to affect self-views when they are
considered relevant. Relevant superstars provoke self-enhancement and inspiration when …

Models postulating 2 distinct processing modes have been proposed in several topic areas
within social and cognitive psychology. We advance a new conceptual model of the 2 …

This article reviews the status of similarity as an explanatory construct with a focus on
similarity judgments. For similarity to be a useful construct, one must be able to specify the …

This target article presents a new computational theory of explanatory coherence that
applies to the acceptance and rejection of scientific hypotheses as well as to reasoning in …