STERNBERG, R. J., ROEDIGER, H. L., & HALPERN, D. F. (Eds.). (2007).
Critical thinking in psychology.
New York: Cambridge University Press.
Pp. v + 340. ISBN 0-521-60834-1. $24.99 PB.
We all encourage our students to use critical thinking, but often it is done as an abstract exercise that, ironically, succeeds merely in uncritically listing the steps one needs to follow to become a critical thinker. Such is the approach used in many books about experimental design. The editors of this text, however, have chosen a different concept. They asked researchers whose work exemplifies critical thinking to describe the processes they engage to formulate research ...