Ordering of information in conditional reasoning.
Two experiments are reported in which participants are asked to evaluate computer-presented conditional syllogisms consisting of a major premise (conditional rule), a minor premise and a conclusion. As an example the modus tollens inference with an affirmative conditional has the form if p then q, n...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 89; no. 3; pp. 383 - 404 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
August 1998
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