| Reasoning counterfactually: making inferences about things that didn't happen. | |
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PMID: 12450339 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The authors investigated the relationship between reasoners' understanding of subjunctive conditionals (e.g., if p had happened, then q would have happened) and the inferences they were prepared to endorse. Reasoners who made a counterfactual interpretation of subjunctive statements (i.e., they judged the statement to imply that p and q did not happen) endorsed different inferences than those who did not. Those who made a counterfactual interpretation were more likely to (a) judge the situation in which p and q occurred to be inconsistent with the conditional statement and (b) make negative inferences such as modus tollens (i.e., approximately q therefore approximately p). These findings occurred with familiar and unfamiliar content, affirmative and negative conditionals, and conditional and biconditional relations. |
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Authors:
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Valerie A Thompson; Ruth M J Byrne |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition Volume: 28 ISSN: 0278-7393 ISO Abbreviation: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn Publication Date: 2002 Nov |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2002-11-26 Completed Date: 2003-03-27 Revised Date: 2006-11-15 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8207540 Medline TA: J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1154-70 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. valerie.thompson@usask.ca |
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Adolescent Adult Attention* Concept Formation* Female Humans Logic* Male Middle Aged Problem Solving* Psycholinguistics Reading* Semantics |
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