Disjunctive illusory inferences and how to eliminate them

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 615-623

  Khemlani, Sangeet ^a   Johnson Laird, P N ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MEMORY; THEORY;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CULTURE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; JUDGMENT; LOGIC; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 67650369551     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.37.5.615     Document Type: Article

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