Costs and benefits in Wason's selection task: The social conditional model

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 117-135

  Wagner Egger, Pascal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Deductive reasoning; Pragmatic reasoning schemas; Selection task; Social contracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035539688     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024//1421-0185.60.3.117     Document Type: Article

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