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This book focuses on how statistical reasoning works and on
training programs that can exploit people's natural cognitive
capabilities to improve their statistical reasoning. Training
programs that take into account findings from evolutionary
psychology and instructional theory are shown to have substantially
larger effects that are more stable over time than previous
training regimens. The theoretical implications are traced in a
neural network model of human performance on statistical reasoning
problems. This book apppeals to judgment and decision making
researchers and other cognitive scientists, as well as to teachers
of statistics and probabilistic reasoning.
This book focuses on how statistical reasoning works and on
training programs that can exploit people's natural cognitive
capabilities to improve their statistical reasoning. Training
programs that take into account findings from evolutionary
psychology and instructional theory are shown to have substantially
larger effects that are more stable over time than previous
training regimens. The theoretical implications are traced in a
neural network model of human performance on statistical reasoning
problems. This book apppeals to judgment and decision making
researchers and other cognitive scientists, as well as to teachers
of statistics and probabilistic reasoning.
What is meditation? What do people hope to get from practicing it
and what do they really get? How can the effects of meditation be
explained? And what are the best approaches to researching the
psychology of meditation so we can understand more? This volume
provides state-of-the-art answers to these questions. Contrary to
commonly accepted wisdom, meditation comes in huge varieties and
the reasons why people begin to meditate (and stay with it) are
also numerous and diverse. Even mindfulness, which is often
(wrongly) used as a synonym for meditation, comes in many forms.
This book first describes the varieties of meditation in detail and
then succinctly summarizes the beneficial effects found in the
avalanche of studies available, especially in clinical contexts,
and also explores recently emerging topics such as negative effects
and the impact of ethics and spirituality. The author expertly
provides theories of four main traditional meditation approaches,
which has never been done before in this form, and gives a critical
overview of Western approaches to explain the effects of
meditation. In conclusion, he makes recommendations on how to
improve future meditation research. This book is of interest to
meditation researchers, mental health practitioners, students
interested in meditation and mindfulness, and to everybody who
seriously wants to know more about the topic.
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