The pervasive effects of argument length on inductive reasoning

Thinking and Reasoning

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 244-277

  Heit, Evan ^a   Rotello, Caren M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Inductive reasoning; Mathematical modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862323133     PISSN: 13546783     EISSN: 14640708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546783.2012.695161     Document Type: Article

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