What makes people revise their beliefs following contradictory anecdotal evidence?: The role of systemic variability and direct experience

Cognitive Science

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 535-547

  Markovits, Henry ^a   Schmeltzer, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ TOULOUSE JEAN JAURÈS   (France)

Author keywords

Belief revision; Experience; Randomness; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447576966     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326900701326600     Document Type: Article

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