What makes us believe a conditional? The roles of covariation and causality

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 340-369

  Oberauer, Klaus ^a,b   Weidenfeld, Andrea ^a   Fischer, Katrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Department of Experimental Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

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EID: 35148876486     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546780601035794     Document Type: Article

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