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Thinking in opposites improves hypothesis testing performance in Wason's rule-discovery task.

We investigate whether hypothesis testing can be improved by a simple prompt to "think in opposites," a strategy suggested by a growing body of literature as being beneficial in various reasoning and problem-solving contexts. We employed Wason's rule-discovery task and designed three experimental co...

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Published in:Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1927 - 1944
Main Authors: Branchini, Erika, Bianchi, Ivana, Burro, Roberto
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Aug2025
Subjects:
Task performance
Problem solving
Statistical hypothesis testing
Hypothesis
Thought & thinking
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