Analogical Reasoning and Relational Thinking: Cognitive Foundations of Intelligence and Rationalities
A special issue of Journal of Intelligence (ISSN 2079-3200). This special issue belongs to the section "Studies on Cognitive Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 June 2027 | Viewed by 23
Editors
Interests: human reasoning; cultural rationality; dual-process theories; cognitive bias
Interests: thinking; reasoning; problem solving; creativity; analogising; metareasoning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Analogical reasoning and relational thinking are the cognitive foundations of intelligence. They enable humans to detect patterns and rules, generalize specific experiences, apply knowledge to new situations, and form abstractions. These cognitive processes are also necessary for creative thinking, learning the relational structure of language, and social intelligence, such as trust, reciprocity, and forming alliances. Given these insights, analogical reasoning tasks, such as Raven's Progressive Matrices, are important components of intelligence tests. Furthermore, an understanding of analogical reasoning can overcome the limitations that arise from an overemphasis on binary logic and allow us to discuss human rationality. Although binary logic is assumed to be the norm for human deductive thinking, it cannot be applied to human analogical reasoning. Instead, researchers of analogical reasoning and relational thinking have focused on principles that index good analogies, such as structural and systematic correspondence between the base and target domains. Thus, researchers of human reasoning can address not only human logical rationalities, but also human cognitive rationalities.
The Special Issue aims to clarify the importance of analogical reasoning and relational thinking as fundamental processes in the cognitive foundations of intelligence and rationality. Furthermore, should at least eight articles be successfully collected, these may subsequently be published in book form. Original research articles based on psychological experiments or surveys, as well as reviews, including of theoretical studies, are welcome in this Special Issue.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Yama
Prof. Dr. Linden Ball
Prof. Dr. Hidetsugu Komeda
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- analogical reasoning
- relational thinking
- rationality
- social intelligence
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