LA RAZIONALITÀ DEL RISPONDERE NON LOGICAMENTE.
In this paper, I discuss whether in the Wason selection task, where subjects are asked to select evidence for evaluating a conditional, the most common response is indeed as irrational as many psychologists have maintained. My account of subjects' performances focuses on (i) how the task is understo...
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