Attenuating Belief Bias Effects in Syllogistic Reasoning: The Role of Belief-content Conflict

A reasoner’s beliefs can compromise or inflate the accuracy of their syllogistic judgments when syllogistic content and structure are incongruent or congruent, respectively. An integrated approach to the study of syllogistic reasoning led to the investigation of premise-based belief-content conflict...

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Main Author: Hilscher, Michelle
Other Authors: Cupchik, Gerald
Language:en_ca
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/65668