Everyday Cognition

Social and Everyday Cognition

Reference: Woll, S.B. (in preparation). Thinking in actual practice: The cognitive psychology of everyday life.

Political cognition: what is the nature of political expertise, and does such expertise or political knowledge or beliefs in general affect the way in which we take in and react to political information? Where does selective or biased processing take place, e.g., at encoding, at the stage of constructing a representation, at retrieval?
References: Woll, S.B., & Loukides, Z. (1997). The components and correlates of political sophistication. Unpublished manuscript, California State University, Fullerton. Woll, S.B., Kernes, J., Wentsel, C., & Robinson, T. (1992). The effects of political expertise, ideology, and issue on political reasoning. International Journal of Psychology, 27 (3/4), 274.
Everyday, informal reasoning: What are some of the features that distinguisk everyday reasoning and problem solving from more formal reasoning? How capable are we of generating arguments regarding everyday personal of political of ethical issues?
Reference: Woll, S.B., & Navarette, J. (in preparation). Generating arguments in everyday reasoning.