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Matching Bias in Conditional Reasoning: Do We Understand it After 25 Years?

Pages 45-110 | Published online: 24 Sep 2010

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John Powell Taylor, Shanna’Le Juniper Ashworth, Sarah Petrovich & Casey A. Young. (2017) Inducing an availability heuristic on the Wason selection task overrides the matching bias. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 29:4, pages 508-519.
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Nina Attridge & Matthew Inglis. (2014) Intelligence and negation biases on the Conditional Inference Task: A dual-processes analysis. Thinking & Reasoning 20:4, pages 454-471.
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ValerieA. Thompson, JonathanSt. B. T. Evans & JamieI. D. Campbell. (2013) Matching bias on the selection task: It's fast and feels good. Thinking & Reasoning 19:3-4, pages 431-452.
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MaxwellJ. Roberts & ElizabethJ. Newton. (2011) Rapid-response versus free-time selection tasks using different logical connectives. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 23:7, pages 858-872.
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Jonathan J. Rolison, Jonathan St B. T. Evans, Clare R. Walsh & Ian Dennis. (2011) The role of working memory capacity in multiple-cue probability learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 64:8, pages 1494-1514.
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Walter Schroyens & Senne Braem. (2011) The initial representation in reasoning towards an interpretation of conditional sentences. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 64:2, pages 339-362.
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JonathanSt B T Evans. (2010) Intuition and Reasoning: A Dual-Process Perspective. Psychological Inquiry 21:4, pages 313-326.
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JonathanSt. B. T. Evans & Linden J. Ball. (2010) Do people reason on the Wason selection task? A new look at the data of Ball et al. (2003). The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 63:3, pages 434-441.
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David R. Mandel & Oshin Vartanian. (2009) Weighting of contingency information in causal judgement: Evidence of hypothesis dependence and use of a positive-test strategy. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62:12, pages 2388-2408.
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Christoph Stahl, Karl Christoph Klauer & Edgar Erdfelder. (2008) Matching bias in the selection task is not eliminated by explicit negations. Thinking & Reasoning 14:3, pages 281-303.
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RaymondS. Nickerson & SusanF. Butler. (2008) Efficiency in data gathering: Set size effects in the selection task. Thinking & Reasoning 14:1, pages 60-82.
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Paolo Cherubini, Alberto Mazzocco & Stefano Minelli. (2007) Facilitation and inhibition caused by the orienting of attention in propositional reasoning tasks. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 60:11, pages 1496-1523.
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Jean-François Bonnefon & Gaëlle Villejoubert. (2007) Modus Tollens, Modus Shmollens: Contrapositive reasoning and the pragmatics of negation. Thinking & Reasoning 13:2, pages 207-222.
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Olivier Houdé. (2007) First insights on “neuropedagogy of reasoning”. Thinking & Reasoning 13:2, pages 81-89.
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Jérôme Prado & IraA. Noveck. (2006) How reaction time measures elucidate the matching bias and the way negations are processed. Thinking & Reasoning 12:3, pages 309-328.
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Wim De Neys. (2006) Automatic–heuristic and executive–analytic processing during reasoning: Chronometric and dual-task considerations. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 59:6, pages 1070-1100.
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Jonathan St. B. T. Evans & Jodie Curtis-Holmes. (2005) Rapid responding increases belief bias: Evidence for the dual-process theory of reasoning. Thinking & Reasoning 11:4, pages 382-389.
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Jonathan St. B. T. Evans, John Clibbens & Anita Harris. (2005) Prior belief and polarity in multicue learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 58:4, pages 651-665.
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LindenJ. Ball, EricaJ. Lucas, JeremyN. V. Miles & AlastairG. Gale. (2003) Inspection times and the selection task: What do eye-movements reveal about relevance effects?. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 56:6, pages 1053-1077.
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Sylvain Moutier, Nathalie Angeard & Olivier Houde. (2002) Deductive reasoning and matching-bias inhibition training: Evidence from a debiasing paradigm. Thinking & Reasoning 8:3, pages 205-224.
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Simon J. Handley, Aidan Feeney & Catherine Harper. (2002) Alternative antecedents, probabilities, and the suppression of fallacies in Wason's selection task. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 55:3, pages 799-818.
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Jonathan St. B.T. Evans. (2002) Matching bias and set sizes: A discussion of Yama (2001). Thinking & Reasoning 8:2, pages 153-163.
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Maxwell J. Roberts & Elizabeth J. Newton. (2001) Inspection times, the change task, and the rapid-response selection task. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 54:4, pages 1031-1048.
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Hiroshi Yama. (2001) Matching versus optimal data selection in the Wason selection task. Thinking & Reasoning 7:3, pages 295-311.
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Walter J. Schroyens, Walter Schaeken & Géry D'Ydewalle. (2001) The processing of negations in conditional reasoning: A meta-analytic case study in mental model and/or mental logic theory. Thinking & Reasoning 7:2, pages 121-172.
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Aidan Feeney & Simon J. Handley. (2000) The suppression of q card selections: Evidence for deductive inference in Wason's Selection Task. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 53:4, pages 1224-1242.
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Walter Schroyens, Niki Verschueren, Walter Schaeken & Gery D'Ydewalle. (2000) Conditional reasoning with negations: Implicit and explicit affirmation or denial and the role of contrast classes. Thinking & Reasoning 6:3, pages 221-251.
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K.I. Manktelow & N. Fairley. (2000) Superordinate principles in reasoning with causal and deontic conditionals. Thinking & Reasoning 6:1, pages 41-65.
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Jonathan St.B.T. Evans & Simon J. Handley. (1999) The Role of Negation in Conditional Inference. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 52:3, pages 739-769.
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Jonathan St.B.T. Evans. (1999) The Influence of Linguistic Form on Reasoning: The Case of Matching Bias. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 52:1, pages 185-216.
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Jonathan St. B.T. Evans. (1998) Inspection Times, Relevance, and Reasoning: A Reply to Roberts. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A 51:4, pages 811-814.
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