Some of these references will be assigned as class reading, especially for the special topics in the syllabus. Others are for general interest, and may be useful for your term paper.
See the list of useful web links for many other citations. Also, examine the resources on the web site for the textbook.
Gazzaniga, M. (2008). Human: The science behind what makes us unique. New York: HarperCollins.
Banks, W. P., & Isham, E. A. (2009). We infer rather than perceive the moment we decided to act. Psychological Science, 20, 17-21.
Blackmore, S. J. (2003). What is it like to be .... In S. J. Blackmore (ed.), Consciousness: An Introduction. Oxford University Press.
(Online version)Block, N. (2002). Some Concepts of Consciousness. In D. Chalmers (ed.) , Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Reading,. Oxford University Press.
Block, N. (2004). Consciousness, philosophical issues about. In L. Nadel (ed.) , Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. New York: Nature Publishing Group.
(Online version)
Dennett, D. (1991). Consciousness explained. Boston: Little, Brown.
Libet, B., Gleason, C. A., Wright, E. W., & Pearl, D. K. (1983). Time of conscious intention to act in relation to onset of cerebral activity (readiness potential): The unconscious initiation of a freely voluntary act. Brain, 106, 623-642.
Musacchio, J. (2005). Why do qualia and the mind seem nonphysical. Synthese, 147, 425-460.
(Online version)
Nagel, T. (1974). What is it like to be a bat? Philosophical Review, 83, 435-50.
(Online version)Pockett, S., Banks, W. P., & Gallagher, S. (2006). Does Consciousness Cause Behavior? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Free Will and Automatic Behavior
Baer, J., Kaufman, J. C., & Baumeister, R. F. (Eds.) (2008). Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bargh, J. A., & Morsella, E. (2008). The unconscious mind. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 73-79.
Baumeister, R. F. (2008). Free will in scientific psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 14-19.
Churchland, P. (1981). Is determinism self-refuting? Mind, 90, 99-101.
Churchland, P. (2006). The big questions: Do we have free will? New Scientist, 192, 42-45.
(Online version)
French, R. M. (2000). The Turing test: The first fifty years. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 115-121.
(PDF version available online)Friedenberg, J. (2008). Artificial Psychology: The Quest for What It Means To Be Human. New York: Psychology Press.
Fodor, J. (2001). The mind doesn't work that way: The scope and limits of computational psychology. Cambridge.
Markman, A. B. & Brendl, C. M. (2005). Constraining theories of embodied cognition. Psychological Science, 16, 6–10.
Pinker, S. (2005). So how does the mind work? (Review and reply to Jerry Fodor’s “The Mind Doesn’t Work thatWay”). Mind and Language, 20, 1-24.
Schneider, S. (2007). Yes, it does: A diatribe on Jerry Fodor's "The mind doesn't work that way". Psyche, 13 (1), 1-15.
Waldrop, M. (1990). Can computers think? In R. Kurzweil (ed.), The Age of Intelligent Machines. MIT Press.
(Online version)
Damasio, A. R. (1994). Descartes' error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain. New York: Avon.
Gazzaniga, M. (1992). Nature's mind. New York: Basic Books.
Greene, J. D., Sommerville, R. B., Nystrom, L. E., Darley, J. M. & Cohen, J. D. (2001). An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgment. Science, 293, 2105–2108.
Ramachandran V. S. & Hirstein W. (1999). The science of art: a neurological theory of aesthetic experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, 15-51.
Sacks, O. (1985). The man who mistook his wife for a hat. New York: Harper-Collins.
Development and Theory of Mind
Amsterlaw, J & Wellman, H. M. (2006). Theories of mind in transition: A microgenetic study of the development of false belief understanding. Journal of Cognition and Development, 7, 139-172.
Doherty, M. J. (2009). Theory of mind - How children understand others' thoughts and feelings. New York City, NY: Psychology Press.
Liszkowski, U., Carpenter M., & Striano, T. (2006). 12- and 18-month-olds point to provide information for others. Journal of Cognition and Development, 7, 173-187.
Udell, M. A. R., Dorey, N. R., & Wynne, C. D. L. (2011). Can your dog read your mind? Understanding the causes of canine perspective taking. Learning and Behavior, 39, 289-302.
See also the commentaries that follow
Blackmore, S. (1999). The meme machine. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Campbell, A. (2002). A mind of her own: The evolutionary psychology of women. New York: Oxford University Press.
Clewley, R. (1997). The Role of Memetics in Multi-Scale Models of Evolution and Behaviour. Conference proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Cybernetics, Association Internationale de Cybernetique, Namur, Belgium.
(Online version)Confer, J. C., Easton, J. A., Fleischman, D. S., Goetz, C. D., Lewis, D. M. G., Perilloux, C., & Buss, D. M. (2010). Evolutionary psychology: Controversies, questions, prospects, and limitations. American Psychologist, 65, 110-126.
(Online version)Dennett, D. C. (2005). Atheism and evolution. In M. Matrin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
(Online version)Geher, G., & Iller, G. (Eds.) (2008). Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind's Reproductive System. New York: Psychology Press.
Keneally, C. (2007). The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language. New York: Viking Penguin.
Mithen, S. (2006). The singing Neanderthals: The origins of music, language, mind, and body. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Nairne, J. S. & Pandeirada, J. N. S. (2008). Adaptive memory: Remembering with a stone age brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 239-243.
Buss, D. M. (2000). The dangerous passion: Why jealousy is as necessary as love and sex. New York: The Free Press.
Kahneman, D., Diener, E., & Schwarz, N. (Eds.) (2003). Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology. Russell Sage Foundation.
Reis, H. T. & Aron, A. (2008). Love: What is it, why does it matter, and how does it operate? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 80-86.
Swami, A. & Furnham, A. (2008). The Psychology of Physical Attraction. New York: Routledge.
Bazerman, M. H., & Greene, J. D. (2010). In favor of clear thinking: Incorporating moral rules into a wise cost-benefit analysis—Commentary on Bennis,Medin, & Bartels (2010). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 209-212.
Bennis, W. M., Medin, D. L., & Bartels, D. M. (2010). The costs and benefits of calculation and moral rules. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 187-202.
Gazzaniga, M. (2005). The ethical brain. New York: Dana Press.
(See online excerpt and a summary in the New York Times)Haidt, J. (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social-intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review, 108, 814-834.
Haidt, J. (2007). The new synthesis in moral psychology. Science, 316, 998-1002.
Haidt, J. (2008). Morality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 65-72.
Jordan, A. H. & Monin, B. (2008). From sucker to saint: Moralization in response to self-threat. Psychological Science, 19, 809-815.
Krebs, D. L. (2008). Morality: An evolutionary account. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3, 149-172.
McCullough, M. E., Kimeldorf, M. B., & Cohen, A. D. (2008). An adaptation for altruism? The social causes, social effects, and social evaluation of gratitude. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 281-285.
Prinz, J. J. (2008). Is morality innate? in W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
(Online version)Sinnott-Armstrong, W.(ed.) (2008). Moral Psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Arieli, D. (2008). Predictably irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions. New York: HarperCollins.
Bermúdez, J. L. (2009). Decision theory and rationality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kahneman, D. (2003). A perspective on judgment and choice: Mapping bounded rationality. American Psychologist, 58, 697–720.
Keys, D. J. & Schwartz, B. (2007). "Leaky" rationality: How research on behavioral decision making challenges normative standards of rationality. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 162-180.
Nickerson, R. S. (2008). Aspects of rationality: Reflections on what it means to be rational and whether we are. New York: Psychology Press.
Shafir, E. & LeBoeuf, R.A. (2002). Rationality. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 491-517.
Todd., P. M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2007). Environments that make us smart: Ecological rationality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 167-171.
Barbeya, A. K., & Sloman, S. A. (2007). Base-rate respect: From ecological rationality to dual processes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 241-254.
De Neys, W. (2006). Dual processing in reasoning: two systems but one reasoner. Psychological Science, 17, 428-433.
Evans, J. St. B. T. (2007). Hypothetical thinking: Dual processes in reasoning and judgement. Hove, England: Psychology Press.
Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Keren, G., & Schul, Y. (2009). Two is not always better than one: A critical evaluation of two-system theories. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 533-550.
Peters, E., Hess, T. M., Västfjäll, D., & Auman, C. (2007). Adult age differences in dual information processes: Implications for the role of affactive and deliberative processes in older adults' decision making. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2, 1-23.
Price, M.C., & Norman, E. (2008). Intuitive decisions of the fringes of consciousness: Are they conscious and does it matter? Judgment and Decision Making, 3, 28-41.
Stanovich, K.E., & West, R.A. (2000). Individual differnces in reasoning: Implications for the rationality debate? (Plus open peer commentary and authors' response) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 645-726.
Whitney, P., Rinehart, C. A., & Hinson, J. M. (2008). Framing effects under cognitive load: The role of working memory in risky decisions. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 1179-1184.
Colman, A.M. (2003). Cooperation, psychological game theory, and limitations of rationality in social interaction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 139-198.
De Cremer, D. & Bakker, M. (2003) Accountability and cooperation in social dilemmas: The influence of other's reputational concerns. Current Psychology: Developmental, Learning, Personality, Social. 22,. 155-163.
Gintis, H. (2009). The bounds of reason: Game theory and the unification of the social sciences. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Jensen, K., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game. Science, 318, 107-109.
Nowak, M. A., Page, K. M., & Sigmund, K. (2000). Fairness versus reason in the ultimatum game. Science, 289, 1773-1775.
Ostrom, E. (2000). Collective action and the evolution of social norms. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14 (3), 137-158.