Suppression of valid inferences and knowledge structures: The curious effect of producing alternative antecedents on reasoning with causal conditionals

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 736-744

  Markovits, Henry ^a   Potvin, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; LIFE EVENT; LOGIC; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0035713437     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03200476     Document Type: Article

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