Distrust and the positive test heuristic: Dispositional and situated social distrust improves performance on the wason rule discovery task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 985-990

  Mayo, Ruth ^a   Alfasi, Dana ^a   Schwarz, Norbert ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Confirmation bias; Distrust; Negative testing; Reasoning; Trust

Indexed keywords

ADULT; HUMAN; LOGIC; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; THINKING; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; HUMANS; LOGIC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THINKING; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901503471     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035127     Document Type: Article

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