Problem Solving, 2nd Edition

Preface

This book started off as an update to my Problem Solving book published in 2001 (Robertson, 2001). The first edition was written in 2000 about the time when much research on the topic seemed in retrospect to be petering out. At least, that is the impression one gets when looking at the reference list at the end of some overviews of the topic, such as Bassok and Novick (2012) or Pizlo (2010): “there is no indication that the volume of research on human problem solving is increasing. The number of published reports is substantially smaller than in other areas of cognition, such as perception or learning and memory” (Pizlo, 2010, p. 52). Funke (2013), however, produced a long list of articles published in 2012 on various topics in problem ...