Concerns with the SDT approach to causal conditional reasoning: A comment on Trippas, Handley, Verde, Roser, McNair, and Evans (2014)

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Singmann, Henrik ^a   Kellen, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 84904560878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00402     Document Type: Note

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