ABSTRACT
The motto of the 30th International Congress of Psychology (2012) was
“Psychology serving humanity”. The running theme of the congress was to
consider how psychology translated its science and practice into the knowl-
edge, skills, and tools that would help relieve the current burdens of human-
ity, and serve its long-term development goals. In such a context, holding a
symposium on reasoning might feel vaguely intimidating and out of place. For, in truth, the psychology of reasoning does not have a reputation for
making itself relevant to people’s daily challenges and societies’ greater
ambitions.
