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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
Human Experimental Psychology
Volume 46, 1993 - Issue 4: The Cognitive Psychology of Reasoning
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Hypothesis-testing strategies: Why two goals are better than one

Charles M. Wharton University of California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.Correspondence[email protected].
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Patricia W. Cheng University of California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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Thomas D. Wickens University of California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Pages 743-758 | Received 07 Apr 1993, Published online: 29 May 2007

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