The effect of instructions and information retrieval on accepting the premises in a conditional reasoning task

International Journal of Phytoremediation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-113

  Vadeboncoeur, Isabelle ^a   Markovits, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 85066213770     PISSN: 15226514     EISSN: 15497879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135467899394011     Document Type: Article

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