Associations between myside bias on an informal reasoning task and amount of post-secondary education

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 851-860

  Toplak, Maggie E ^a   Stanovich, Keith E ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 8744245304     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.915     Document Type: Article

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