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Direct linkWest, Richard F.; Toplak, Maggie E.; Stanovich, Keith E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
In this article, the authors argue that there are a range of effects usually studied within cognitive psychology that are legitimately thought of as aspects of critical thinking: the cognitive biases studied in the heuristics and biases literature. In a study of 793 student participants, the authors found that the ability to avoid these biases was…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Critical Thinking, Cognitive Psychology, Thinking Skills
