Thinking Through Dilemmas

<p>Departing from the sociological dual process model that divides thoughts into automatic and unconscious or deliberate and conscious occurrences this book draws on empirical cases to demonstrate the existence of “automatic deliberation.” Through research into the ways in which people address difficult subjects such as death and dying pedophilia and career decision-making the author sheds light on a mode of thinking which is both habitual and effortful displaying a combination of habituated understandings and conscious deliberation. Advancing a blended view of cognition by which individuals draw on schemas and frames to think through complex topics this volume will appeal to sociologists and psychologists with interests in cognition and the ways in which we make decisions.</p>