A Qualitative Approach to the Study of Causal Reasoning in Natural Language: The Domain of Genes, Risks and Cancer

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 475-500

  O'doherty, Kieran C ^a   Navarro, Daniel J ^b   Crabb, Shona H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayes nets; cancer; causal maps; causal reasoning; discourse analysis; genes; genetic counselling; learning; risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249092960     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354309336321     Document Type: Article

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