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The study of how humans actually reason—as opposed to how logic says we should reason. Humans are not natural logicians; we're natural pattern-seekers, storytellers, and social creatures who use reasoning primarily to justify conclusions we've already reached. The psychology of logic examines why we commit fallacies (they feel right), why we're bad at probability (evolution didn't prepare us), and why we're so confident when we're wrong (cognitive blind spots). It's not that logic is useless; it's that using logic requires overcoming our psychological defaults. The psychology of logic is the study of that struggle—and why most of us lose it most of the time.
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