Reasoning About a Rule

Wason, P. C. (1968). Reasoning About a Rule. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 20(3), 273-281.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1968

Volume

20

Issue

3

Pages

273-281

DOI

10.1080/14640746808400161

DOI registrant

SAGE Publications

Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/14640746808400161

Cited from

philosophy, psychology

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Confirmation Bias
  • .

    This sourceThe four-card selection task; subjects fail the contrapositive ("if P then Q") inference and favor affirming the rule.

• Inference
  • This conserved decision sequence is the basis for Prime status.

Domain-specific

• Wason Selection Task
  • Under the canonical universal material-conditional interpretation, the only falsifying configuration is `P and not-Q`; therefore the `P` and `not-Q` cases must be inspected, while `not-P` and `Q` cannot reveal a violation merely by being turned.

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