The role of language comprehension in reasoning: How "good-enough" representations induce biases

Cognition

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 457-463

  Mata, André ^a   Schubert, Anna Lena ^a   B Ferreira, Mário ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bias; Conflict detection; Dual process; Good enough representations; Intuition; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; LANGUAGE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; DECISION MAKING; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84906345465     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.07.011     Document Type: Article

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