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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Publicado en:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 1927 - 1944
Autores principales:	Branchini, Erika, Bianchi, Ivana, Burro, Roberto
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature Aug2025
Materias:	Task performance Problem solving Statistical hypothesis testing Hypothesis Thought & thinking
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