Hichem Karoui

Richards J. Heuer, Jr.

Author’s Preface

This volume pulls together and republishes, with some editing, updating, and additions, articles written during 1978–86 for internal use within the CIA Directorate of Intelligence. Four of the articles also appeared in the Intelligence Community journal Studies in Intelligence during that time frame. The information is relatively timeless and still [...]

Stephen Monsell Jon Driver

One of the most challenging problems facing cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience is to explain how mental processes are voluntarily controlled, allowing the computational resources of the brain to be selected flexibly and deployed to achieve changing goals. The eighteenth of the celebrated international symposia on Attention and Performance focused on this [...]

BY ROBERT H. THOULESS.
(From the Department of Psychology, Glasgow University.)

Ordinary observation of the strength of beliefs leads one to the conclusion that most people have a strong tendency to feel much much certain than the evidence warrants. Particularly is this to be noticed when opposite opinions are held, and we find. that some people are [...]

Sigmund Freud The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments. Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions. Remember the scornful reception which first was accorded to Freud’s discoveries in the domain [...]

Stephen Monsell Jon Driver

One of the most challenging problems facing cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience is to explain how mental processes are voluntarily controlled, allowing the computational resources of the brain to be selected flexibly and deployed to achieve changing goals. The eighteenth of the celebrated international symposia on Attention and Performance focused on this [...]

BY ROBERT H. THOULESS.
(From the Department of Psychology, Glasgow University.)
First published in British Journal of Psychology, XXVI, pp. 16-31, 1935.
I. Introduction (p. 16).
II. The scope of the enquiry (pp. 16-17).
III. The results of the enquiry (pp. 18-23).
IV. Discussion of the results (pp. 23-29).
(a) The law of belief formation (pp. 23-24).
(b) Comparison of religious and non-religious [...]