Thinking about conditionals: A study of individual differences

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1772-1784

  Evans, Jonathan St B T ^a   Handley, Simon J ^a   Neilens, Helen ^a   Over, Davtd E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 36148995033     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193509     Document Type: Article

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