Missing the point or missing the norms? Epistemological norms as predictors of students' ability to identify fallacious arguments

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-94

  Weinstock, Michael ^a   Neuman, Yair ^a   Tabak, Iris ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Argumentation and psychology; Informal reasoning fallacies and epistemological norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642436944     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-476X(03)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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