Response demands and the recruitment of heuristic strategies in syllogistic reasoning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 513-530

  Reverberi, Carlo ^a   Rusconi, Patrice ^a   Paulesu, Eraldo ^a   Cherubini, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmosphere effect; Belief bias; Deduction; Heuristics; Mental models; Neuroimaging; Reasoning; Syllogisms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGIC; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; READING; REINFORCEMENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS (PSYCHOLOGY); LOGIC; MALE; REACTION TIME; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60549102181     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210801995010     Document Type: Article

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