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 Professor
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1985
Office: (603) 646-2998, Moore 356
kevin.dunbar@dartmouth.edu
Interests
Scientific Discovery, Analogy, Reasoning, Problem solving, Hypothesis Testing, InVitro Cognition, InVivo Cognition, Causal Reasoning, Concepts, Gender and Cultural differences in Scientific Thinking, Induction, Deduction, Abduction, Working Memory and Reasoning, Groups Reasoning, Cognitive Science, Inference, Higher level Cognition.
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Selected publications
Dunbar, K. (2000). What scientific thinking reveals about the nature of cognition. In Crowley, K., Schunn, C.D., & Okada, T. (Eds.) Designing for Science: Implications from Everyday, Classroom, and Professional Settings. LEA. Hillsdale: NJ.
Dunbar, K. (2000). The analogical paradox: Why analogy is so easy in naturalistic settings, yet so difficult in the psychology laboratory. In D. Gentner, Holyoak, K.J., ,& Kokinov, B. Analogy: Perspectives from Cognitive Science. MIT press. Cambridge: MA.
Baker, L.M., & Dunbar, K.(2000). Experimental design heuristics for scientific discovery: The use of baseline and known controls. International Journal of Human Computer Studies.
Dunbar, K. (1999). The Scientist InVivo: How scientists think and reason in the laboratory. In Magnani, L., Nersessian, N., & Thagard, P. Model-based reasoning in scientific discovery. Plenum Press.
Blanchette, I., & Dunbar, K. (2000). How Analogies are Generated: The Roles of Structural and Superficial Similarity. Memory & Cognition.
Dunbar, K. (1999). Science. In M. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of Creativity. Academic Press, 1, 1379-1384.
Dunbar K. (1999). Scientific Thinking and its development. In R. Wilson., & F. Keil (Eds.) The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT press. pp 730-733.
Dunbar, K. (1997). How scientists think: Online creativity and conceptual change in science. In T.B. Ward, S.M. Smith, & S.Vaid (Eds.) Conceptual structures and processes: Emergence, discovery and Change. APA Press. Washington DC. Also reprinted in Japanese (in 1999).
Dunbar, K. (1998). Problem solving. In W. Bechtel, & G. Graham (Eds.). A Companion to Cognitive Science. London, England: Blackwell.
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