TY - JOUR
T1 - Logical, Statistical, and Causal Reasoning
T2 - Compartmentalized or Generic Processes?
AU - Klar, Yechiel
N1 - Funding Information:
This chapter was written while I held a visiting position at the University of Kansas, USA. Research reported here was supported by the Josef Buchmann Fellowship in Tel Aviv University. I am indebted to Nyla R. Branscombe, Jason Coleman and Arie Kruglanski for their helpful comments on earlier versions of the chapter.
PY - 1991/1/1
Y1 - 1991/1/1
N2 - In contrast to the tendency to divide human reasoning into statistical, logical and causal (the “compartmentalized reasoner” approach), I propose two generic reasoning operations, focalizing and linking, in a variety of reasoning tasks. These operations affect sensitivity to judgment-relevant information, and are related to pseudodiagnostic judgments, judgmental confidence, sensitivity to sample size, to base rate, to target information, and to consensus information, false affirmation of the consequent, false denial of the antecedent, and the neglect of not-q in the Wason selection task. It is concluded that the three reasoning literatures, judgment under uncertainty, logical reasoning, and attribution, reflect on the same basic cognitive reasoning processes.
AB - In contrast to the tendency to divide human reasoning into statistical, logical and causal (the “compartmentalized reasoner” approach), I propose two generic reasoning operations, focalizing and linking, in a variety of reasoning tasks. These operations affect sensitivity to judgment-relevant information, and are related to pseudodiagnostic judgments, judgmental confidence, sensitivity to sample size, to base rate, to target information, and to consensus information, false affirmation of the consequent, false denial of the antecedent, and the neglect of not-q in the Wason selection task. It is concluded that the three reasoning literatures, judgment under uncertainty, logical reasoning, and attribution, reflect on the same basic cognitive reasoning processes.
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U2 - 10.1080/14792779143000042
DO - 10.1080/14792779143000042
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AN - SCOPUS:0040926940
SN - 1046-3283
VL - 2
SP - 117
EP - 164
JO - European Review of Social Psychology
JF - European Review of Social Psychology
IS - 1
ER -