Reinstatement, floating conclusions, and the credulity of Mental Model reasoning

Cognitive Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 621-631

  Bonnefon, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Credulity; Default reasoning; Floating conclusions; Mental models; Reinstatement; Skepticism

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942655230     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsci.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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