Deductive rationality in validating and testing conditional inferences

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 163-173

  Schroyens, Walter ^a   Schaeken, Walter ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conditional reasoning; Critical thinking; Hypothesis testing; Logic; Mental models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LOGIC; MENTAL FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; THINKING; VALIDATION STUDY;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LOGIC; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THINKING;

EID: 54549098285     PISSN: 11961961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012886     Document Type: Article

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