Book contents
- Critical Thinking in Psychology
- Critical Thinking in Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 An Introduction to Critical Thinking: Maybe It Will Change Your Life
- Chapter 2 Nobelists Gone Wild
- Chapter 3 Why Science Succeeds, and Sometimes Doesn’t
- Chapter 4 Critical Thinking and the Rejection of Unsubstantiated Claims
- Chapter 5 Promoting Critical Thinking by Teaching, or Taking, Psychology Courses
- Chapter 6 Avoiding and Overcoming Misinformation on the Internet
- Chapter 7 Critical Thinking Impacts Our Everyday Lives
- Chapter 8 Research Suffers When We All Agree
- Chapter 9 When All Is Just a Click Away
- Chapter 10 Critical Thinking
- Chapter 11 Evaluating Experimental Research
- Chapter 12 Critical Thinking as Scientific Reasoning
- Chapter 13 Critical Thinking in STEM Disciplines
- Chapter 14 Why Would Anyone Do or Believe Such a Thing?
- Chapter 15 Conclusion: How to Think Critically about Politics … and Anything Else!
- Index
- References
Chapter 4 - Critical Thinking and the Rejection of Unsubstantiated Claims
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2019
- Critical Thinking in Psychology
- Critical Thinking in Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 An Introduction to Critical Thinking: Maybe It Will Change Your Life
- Chapter 2 Nobelists Gone Wild
- Chapter 3 Why Science Succeeds, and Sometimes Doesn’t
- Chapter 4 Critical Thinking and the Rejection of Unsubstantiated Claims
- Chapter 5 Promoting Critical Thinking by Teaching, or Taking, Psychology Courses
- Chapter 6 Avoiding and Overcoming Misinformation on the Internet
- Chapter 7 Critical Thinking Impacts Our Everyday Lives
- Chapter 8 Research Suffers When We All Agree
- Chapter 9 When All Is Just a Click Away
- Chapter 10 Critical Thinking
- Chapter 11 Evaluating Experimental Research
- Chapter 12 Critical Thinking as Scientific Reasoning
- Chapter 13 Critical Thinking in STEM Disciplines
- Chapter 14 Why Would Anyone Do or Believe Such a Thing?
- Chapter 15 Conclusion: How to Think Critically about Politics … and Anything Else!
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter examines how critical thinking and a dual-process theory of thinking are related to endorsement of unsubstantiated knowledge claims. Rejecting unsubstantiated claims, such as psychological misconceptions and pseudoscience, is associated with being more inclined and better able to think critically. In dual-process theory terms, people who endorse more unsubstantiated claims tend to rely more on intuitive thinking and less on rational-analytic thinking. Helping people to resist making a rapid, intuitive response to unsubstantiated claims and instead to take a slower, more rational, critical thinking approach can help them reject such claims.
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- Critical Thinking in Psychology , pp. 68 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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