Do people reason on the Wason selection task? A new look at the data of Ball et al. (2003)

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 434-441

  Evans, Jonathan St B T ^a   Ball, Linden J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Matching bias; Reasoning; Wason selection task

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 77949548510     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210903398147     Document Type: Article

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