Argumentation - The Art of Persuasion

Argumentation outlines different types of arguments and how they influence beliefs and behaviour. It offers graduate students, researchers, and instructors on human reasoning advice on how to evaluate arguments. Serving as a source for understanding arguments in decision-making, it is ideal for courses on cognition, reasoning, and psychology.

List of contents

1. Argumentation; 2. Types of arguments; 3. Evaluating arguments; 4. Persuasiveness; 5. Plausibility; 6. Fallacies; 7. Biases; 8. Other flaws; 9. Stratagems; 10. Improving argumentation.

About the author

Raymond S. Nickerson is Research Professor of Psychology at Tufts University, USA. He is a former senior vice president of Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN Systems and Technologies) and the founding editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Argumentation is his tenth book. The American Psychological Association established the Raymond S. Nickerson Best Paper Award in his honor.

Summary

Argumentation outlines different types of arguments and how they influence beliefs and behaviour. It offers graduate students, researchers, and instructors on human reasoning advice on how to evaluate arguments. Serving as a source for understanding arguments in decision-making, it is ideal for courses on cognition, reasoning, and psychology.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond S Nickerson, Raymond S. Nickerson, Raymond S. (Tufts University Nickerson, Nickerson Raymond S., Nickerson Raymond S. Nickerson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781108835268
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83526-8
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognitivism, cognitive theory