On the generation and evaluation of inferences from single premises

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 467-478

  Ormerod, Thomas C ^a,c   Richardson, Juliet ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0037910382     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194404     Document Type: Article

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