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Comment author: Serendipity 04 August 2013 12:08:02PM 1 point [-]

Hello, Tenoke.

I am aiming on enhancing rationality in children but indeed had to often fall back on research with older people. Until now I've been concentrating on the work of Stanovich, Facione, van Gelder and Twardy. Whose work do you think would be relevant, too?

Thank you for your answer!

Comment author: Tenoke 04 August 2013 09:53:06PM *  0 points [-]

Well, Kahneman (and Tversky) would be the most obvious example out of those not mentioned. Otherwise Dennet, Gilovich, Slovic, Pinker, Taleb and Thaler would be some examples of people whose work has varying degrees of relevance to the subject. Those are the people who I can think of off the top of my head but the best way to systematically find researchers of interest would be to look at the reverse citations of Kahneman and Tversky's work or something of the sort.

Comment author: Serendipity 05 August 2013 04:11:53PM 0 points [-]

Ah, how could I forget them! Biases and heuristics play a big role in my interests for critical thinking of course. I'm a bit surprised: how come you included Dennett and Pinker? I know these two for work that's (very interesting but) mostly unrelated to my addressed topic. I'm curious, seems like I missed something important.

Comment author: Tenoke 06 August 2013 12:09:44PM 0 points [-]

I was writing on auto-pilot, you are right that their work is significantly less relevant to the topic than the others'.