Matching bias in the selection task is not eliminated by explicit negations

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 281-303

  Stahl, Christoph ^a   Klauer, Karl Christoph ^a   Erdfelder, Edgar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Matching bias; Reasoning; Wason selection task

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749109982     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546780802116807     Document Type: Article

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