Logic, Beliefs, and Instruction: A Test of the Default Interventionist Account of Belief Bias

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-43

  Handley, Simon J ^a   Newstead, Stephen E ^a   Trippas, Dries ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belief bias; Conditionals; Dual processes; Instruction; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251490367     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021098     Document Type: Article

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