The mental model theory of conditionals: A reply to Guy Politzer

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Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-80

  Johnson Laird, Philip N ^a   Byrne, Ruth M J ^b   Girotto, Vittorio ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY IUAV OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conditionals; Human reasoning; Mental models; Probabilistic reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 60449097344     PISSN: 01677411     EISSN: 15728749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-008-9049-9     Document Type: Article

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