Causal explanation in the face of contradiction

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 806-820

  Park, Juhwa ^a   Sloman, Steven A ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief update; Causal Bayes nets; Contradiction; Mechanism; Rational analysis; Screening off rule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; HUMAN; LOGIC; PHYSIOLOGY; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LOGIC; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902343312     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-013-0389-3     Document Type: Article

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