A curious belief-bias effect: Reasoning with false premises and inhibition of real-life information

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-43

  Markovits, Henry ^a   Schroyens, Walter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belief; Inference; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); JUDGMENT; LOGIC; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; REALITY TESTING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33847257806     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.54.1.38     Document Type: Article

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