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Peer reviewedChater, Nick; Oaksford, Mike – Cognitive Psychology, 1999
Proposes a probability heuristic model for syllogistic reasoning and confirms the rationality of this heuristic by an analysis of the probabilistic validity of syllogistic reasoning that treats logical inference as a limiting case of probabilistic inference. Meta-analysis and two experiments involving 40 adult participants and using generalized…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Heuristics
