Pragmatic influences on rule discovery in Wason's 2-4-6 task

The aim of the reported research was to investigate the determinants of poor performance on Wason's (1960) rule discovery task. Following the argument that the conversational pragmatics of the task cause reasoners to attach a presumption of relevance to the salient properties of the given 2-4-6...

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Main Author: Wade, Caroline Nicola
Published: Lancaster University 2010
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556635