Peter Cathcart Wason Information
Peter Cathcart Wason (22 April 1924 – 17 April 2003) was a cognitive psychologist, who worked on the psychology of reason. He made great progress in explaining why people make certain consistent mistakes in logical reasoning. He designed logical problems and tests to demonstrate these processes, for example the Wason selection task, the THOG problem and the 2-4-6 problem.
Wason was an International Master in correspondence chess.
He was born in Bath, Somerset studied English at New College at the University of Oxford and died in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Eugene Wason was his grandfather.[1]
Publications
Wason wrote the following books:
- Thinking and Reasoning (co-edited with P N Johnson-Laird, 1968)
- Psychology of Reasoning: Structure and Content (with P N Johnson-Laird, 1972)
- Thinking: Readings in Cognitive Science (co-edited with P N Johnson-Laird, 1977)
- The Psychology of Chess (with William Hartston, 1983).
References
- ^ "Wason family tree 2". http://homepage.mac.com/bwason/Tree/Wason/Tree2102.html. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
- "Peter Wason". The Telegraph (Telegraph Group Limited). 22 April 2003. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1428079/Peter-Wason.html.
- Johnson-Laird, Philip (25 April 2003). "Peter Wason". The Education Guardian (Guardian Newspapers Limited). http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,943315,00.html.
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