Counterexamples in sentential reasoning

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1105-1113

  Johnson Laird, P N ^a   Hasson, Uri ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0345529122     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196131     Document Type: Article

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