Not all syllogisms are created equal: Varying premise believability reveals differences between conditional and categorical syllogisms

Deductive reasoning is a fundamental cognitive skill, and consequently has been the focus of much research over the past several decades. In the realm of syllogistic reasoning—judging the validity of a conclusion given two premises—a robust finding is the belief bias effect: broadly, the tendency fo...

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Main Author: Solcz, Stephanie
Language:en
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6070