Development of Thinking and Reasoning

Pierre Barrouillet is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Geneva, and Director of the Archives Jean Piaget. His research investigates the development of numerical cognition, conditional reasoning, as well as the functioning and development of working memory. Caroline Gauffroy is a postdoctoral assistant at the University of Geneva. Her main research interests concern conditional reasoning, propositional reasoning and development.

• Pierre Barrouillet & Caroline Gauffroy Introduction: From Piaget to Dual-Process Theories: The Complexities of Thinking and Reasoning Development. PART 1: Thinking and Reasoning: Beyond Piaget's Conceptions. David Moshman Epistemic Cognition and Development. Julie E. Meehan & Ruth M.J. Byrne The Development of the Rational Imagination: How Children Create Counterfactual Alternatives to Reality. Usha Goswami The Development of Reasoning by Analogy. Henry Markovits The Development of Abstract Conditional Reasoning. PART 2: Dual-Processes Approaches. Pierre Barrouillet & Caroline Gauffroy Dual Processes and Mental Models in the Development of Conditional Reasoning. Kinga Morsanyi & Simon J. Handley Heuristics and Biases – Insights from Developmental Studies. Paul Klackzynski Culture and Developments in Heuristics and Biases from Preschool through Adolescence: Challenges and Implications for Social development. Valerie F. Reyna Intuition, Reasoning and Development: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory. Carlos F. Gomes & Charles J. Brainerd Dual Processes in the Development of Reasoning: The Memory Side of the Theory.

How do human thinkers interact with reasoning norms? The Development of Thinking and Reasoning is a timely and impressive answer based on post-Piagetian and dual-process theories. Its central themes include children’s surprising capabilities, adults’ unexpected liabilities to error, interplays between heuristic and rule-based inferences. The promise is inviting: understanding rationality requires a developmental focus. - Leslie Smith, Lancaster University, UKDevelopmental science owes much to Piaget, but the domain has also evolved considerably since his time. The Development of Thinking and Reasoning provides a scholarly contemporary survey of one major branch of developmental research. Beyond introducing readers to current thinking in the field, however, this book serves another important purpose – drawing out connections across epochs and between schools of thought while also sharpening the differences between them. Students and scholars alike will find it a valuable contribution to the developmental literature. - Michael W. Connell, Institute for Knowledge Design, Massachusetts, USA