The elusive matching bias effect in the disjunctive selection task

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 89-97

  Roberts, Maxwell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorical reasoning; Conditional reasoning; Deductive reasoning; Disjunctive reasoning; Matching bias; Selection task

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; HUMANS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036365386     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027//1618-3169.49.2.89     Document Type: Review

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