The consistency of disjunctive assertions

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 769-778

  Johnson Laird, P N ^a   Lotstein, Max ^a   Byrne, Ruth M J ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Consistency; Disjunction; Inference; Logic; Mental models; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; ILLUSION; LEARNING; LOGIC; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; LOGIC; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84863426637     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0188-2     Document Type: Article

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