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The Psychology of Human Thought: An Introduction
19 peer-reviewed chapters on how people think, from reasoning to creativity, free to read in full on this page.
About this course
How do people form concepts, reason their way to an answer, or solve a problem they have never seen before? This course answers those questions in 19 chapters, each written by researchers in the field and peer reviewed before publication.
You will cover concepts, reasoning, problem solving, intelligence, creativity, wisdom, and how emotion and thought shape each other. Every chapter is here in full, in the publisher's order, and each one closes with the study sections printed in the book, such as a summary, review questions and a glossary, so you can check what you have learned.
If you have already taken our MIT psychology course or Yale psychology course, this is the cognitive companion to both: it goes deeper into thinking itself.
Contents
19 chapters, in the order the book presents them. Read straight through, or jump to the topic you came for.
Credits and licence
This course reproduces the full text of The Psychology of Human Thought: An Introduction, edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Joachim Funke and published by Heidelberg University Publishing in 2019 under CC BY-SA 4.0. Each chapter's authors are credited on that chapter's page.
The book's original cover is under a different licence (CC BY-ND 4.0), so this page uses our own cover art instead.
Our pages built from the book are released under CC BY-SA 4.0 too. You are free to share and adapt them, as long as you credit the authors and share your version under the same licence.
Read the book at Heidelberg University Publishing · CC BY-SA 4.0 licence
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