Overview

How can a particular way of argumenting direct our thinking? How does the formulation of a question influence the answer, producing a bias or an insight? And finally, what effect does public communication have on public behaviour? Psychorhetoric and the Psychology of Thought illustrates the role played by rhetoric and communicative heuristics in the psychology of thinking and decision making, and its effect on many areas of our daily life. It gives voice to a new and unconventional approach to the contemporary debate within the psychology of thought that has wide implications for key behavioural phenomena, including biases, creativity, decision making, and public policy. This innovative work challenges conventional wisdom by proposing that cognitive biases are not inherent flaws in human cognition, but rather outcomes of misleading communication patterns that influence our thinking processes. This unconventional approach to the psychology of thought has significant implications for creativity, decision making, economic behaviour, and public policy development. Essential reading for students and researchers in cognitive psychology, communication studies, and behavioural economics, this volume promises to reshape our understanding of human rationality and the communicative forces that guide it.

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'Is human thinking biased or rational? Or is it simply meaningful, like other acts of human communication? In Psychorhetoric and the Psychology of Thought, Laura Macchi demonstrates an alternative to current accounts, focusing on the interpretive gap between a question and its answer. Her approach makes sense; that is: it made me think.' Karl Halvor Teigen, Professor Emeritus at University of Oslo, Norway

""Is human thinking biased or rational? Or is it simply meaningful, like other acts of human communication? In Psychorhetoric, Laura Macchi demonstrates an alternative to current accounts, focusing on the interpretive gap between a question and its answer. Her approach makes sense; that is: it made me think."" Karl Halvor Teigen, Professor Emeritus at University of Oslo, Norway

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Laura Macchi is Full Professor of Psychology of Thinking, Decision Making and Communication and of General Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Her main co-edited publications include Thinking: Psychological Perspectives on Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making (2003), Cognitive Unconscious and Human rationality (2016), and Insight and Creative Problem Solving (2018).

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