The negated conditional: A litmus test for the suppositional conditional?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 559-569

  Handley, Simon J ^a   Evans, Jonathan St B T ^a   Thompson, Valerie A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conditionals; Conjunction fallacy; Illusory inferences; Suppositional theory; The model theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; COGNITION; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MENTAL PROCESSES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33745082428     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.32.3.559     Document Type: Article

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