Effects of wording and stimulus format on the use of contingency information in causal judgment

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-242

  White, Peter A ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; SPEECH; STIMULUS;

EID: 0037366849     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194382     Document Type: Article

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