Logical intuitions or matching heuristics? Examining the effect of deduction training on belief-based reasoning judgments.
When individuals are asked to evaluate the believability of the conclusions to valid or invalid arguments, they often endorse valid conclusions at higher rates than invalid ones. This effect of validity on belief judgments—the "logic-belief effect" —is considered evidence of intuitive logic. However...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 53; no. 7; pp. 2279 - 2301 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=189137936&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 189137936 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0090502X MEG jtl: Memory & Cognition issn: 0090502X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2025 vid: 53 iid: 7 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 189137936 10.3758/s13421-025-01710-3 ppf: 2279 ppct: 22 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.4MB tig: atl: Logical intuitions or matching heuristics? Examining the effect of deduction training on belief-based reasoning judgments. aug: au: Ghasemi, Omid Handley, Simon J. Stephens, Rachel G. affil: https://ror.org/03r8z3t63 School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, 2052, Sydney, NSW, Australia https://ror.org/01sf06y89 School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia https://ror.org/00892tw58 School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia su: Australia Undergraduates Learning Ethical decision making Logic Judgment (Psychology) Research funding Probability theory Statistical sampling Online information services Regression analysis sug: subj: Undergraduates Learning Ethical decision making Logic Judgment (Psychology) Australia Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling Research funding Probability theory Statistical sampling Online information services Regression analysis keyword: Deductive reasoning Dual process Intuitive logic Logic training Matching heuristic Nonexclusivity Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Philosophy and Religious Studies Philosophy Deductive reasoning Dual process Intuitive logic Logic training Matching heuristic Nonexclusivity Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Psychology Philosophy and Religious Studies Philosophy ab: When individuals are asked to evaluate the believability of the conclusions to valid or invalid arguments, they often endorse valid conclusions at higher rates than invalid ones. This effect of validity on belief judgments—the "logic-belief effect" —is considered evidence of intuitive logic. However, recent studies challenged this interpretation by demonstrating that "pseudo-logical" arguments interfere with belief judgments in the same way as valid logical structures do. This finding suggests that a simple heuristic that relies on the matching of constituent propositions, rather than sensitivity to logical validity per se, may lead to the logic-belief effect. To further test this matching heuristic account, across two experiments, we instructed participants to evaluate the conclusions of a series of logical and pseudo-logical arguments based on logic or belief, before and after a logic training block. The results showed that whilst both judgment types were impacted by both logical and pseudo-logical structures before training, after training the effect of the latter was indeed minimized in logic judgments but not belief judgments. The results largely support the matching heuristic account, which have important implications for contemporary dual-process theories of reasoning. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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