Human thinking is often biased by intuitive beliefs. Inhibition of these tempting beliefs is
considered a key component of human thinking, but the process is poorly understood. In the …

Popular reasoning theories postulate that the ability to inhibit inappropriate beliefs lies at the
heart of the human reasoning engine. Given that people's inhibitory capacities are known to …

Elementary deduction is the ability of unreflectively drawing conclusions from explicit or
implicit premises, on the basis of their logical forms. This ability is involved in many aspects …

Background Opioid-substitution treatment (OST) for opioid dependence (OD) has proven
effective in retaining patients in treatment and reducing illegal opiate abuse and crime …

The believability of product claims depends on the consumer's ability to generate disabling
conditions (ie, other events blocking a cause from having its effect) and alternative causes …

Com o presente programa de investigação intentamos contribuir para o debate teórico que
se tem instalado em redor do raciocínio com afirmações condicionais na forma 'se, então q' …

This study examined conditional reasoning with premises referring to associations between
professions and traits that were either stereotypical (“Accountants like mathematics”) or …

For hundreds of years, philosophers explored how humans reason and what reasoning
abilities humans possess. They were also interested at how these reasoning abilities could …

Making judgements often involves integrating multiple pieces of information, or cues, in the
environment. While experts, such as physicians, are able to make accurate judgements from …