Peter Cathcart Wason English Psychologist
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| Birthday |
22nd April, 1924
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| Birthplace |
Bath, England
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| Died |
17th April, 2003
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| Place of Death |
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England
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| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus
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| Nationality |
English
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| Occupation |
Psychologist
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Peter Cathcart Wason (22 April 1924 – 17 April 2003) was a cognitive psychologist at University College, London who pioneered the Psychology of Reasoning. He progressed explanations as to why people make certain consistent mistakes in logical reasoning. He designed problems and tests to demonstrate these processes, for example the Wason selection task, the THOG problem and the 2-4-6 problem. He also coined the term "confirmation bias" to describe the tendency for people to immediately favor information that validates their preconceptions, hypotheses and personal beliefs regardless of whether they are true or not.
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