Alternative antecedents, probabilities, and the suppression of fallacies in Wason's selection task

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 799-818

  Handley, Simon J ^a   Feeney, Aidan ^b   Harper, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0036633758     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980143000497     Document Type: Article

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