The order effect in human abductive reasoning: An empirical and computational study

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 215-247

  Wang, Hongbin ^a   Johnson, Todd R ^a   Zhang, Jiajie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Abductive reasoning; Bayes' theorem; Belief revision; Human reasoning; Order effect

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

ABDUCTIVE REASONING; BAYES' THEOREM; BELIEF REVISION; HUMAN REASONING; ORDER EFFECT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 33745925301     PISSN: 0952813X     EISSN: 13623079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09528130600558141     Document Type: Article

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