The current review proposes that exposure to a specific untrustworthy source of information
engages a mode of thought—a distrust mindset—that is also evoked by incidental distrust …

David Groome with Hazel Dewart, Anthony Esgate, Kevin Gurney, Richard Kemp, and
Nicola Towell. An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology: Processes and Disorders is a …

Un manuel de référence entièrement actualisé et tout en couleurs sur le fonctionnement de
la pensée humaine. Enrichi de nombreuses illustrations et questions pour se tester, il …

Our aim in this paper is to contribute toward acknowledging the general role of opposites as
an organizing principle in the human mind. We support this claim in relation to human …

In the middle of this century so-called" ordinary-language philosophers"-most prominently
Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Austin and Peter Strawson-put forward a new," pragmatic" picture …

Feelings of distrust alert people not to take information at face value, which may influence
their reasoning strategy. Using the Wason (1960) rule identification task, we tested whether …

" Confirmation bias is a tendency to selectively search for and emphasize information that is
consistent with a hypothesis or preferred conclusion. At the same time, opposing information …

Drawing together social psychologists' concerns with equality and cognitive psychologists'
concerns with scientific inference, 6 studies (N= 841) showed how implicit category norms …

We explored the “context of discovery” in Wason's 2–4–6 task, focusing on how the first
hypothesis is generated. According to Oaksford and Chater (1994a) people generate …

Literature on inductive reasoning shows that when testing hypotheses, people are biased
toward the use of confirmatory strategies (PC Wason, 1960). In the present article, the …