What Must a Psychological Theory of Reasoning Explain? Comment on Barrouillet, Gauffroy, and Lecas (2008)

Psychological Review

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 773-778

  Oberauer, Klaus ^a   Oaksford, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

computational levels; conditional inference; probability conditional; rational analysis; truth value gaps

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

HUMANS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 51449109658     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.115.3.773     Document Type: Article

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