Consequential Conditionals: Invited and Suppressed Inferences from Valued Outcomes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-37

  Bonnefon, Jean François ^a   Hilton, Denis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0942289780     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.30.1.28     Document Type: Article

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