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P. N. Johnson-Laird & P. C. Wason, eds., Thinking. Readings in Cognitive Science
No full textSperber Dan. P. N. Johnson-Laird & P. C. Wason, eds., Thinking. Readings in Cognitive Science. In: L'Homme, 1979, tome 19 n°1. p. 151
Freud e Johnson-Laird: Modelos Mentais no «Caso Dora»
No full textAfreudite : Revista Lusófona de Psicanálise Pura e AplicadaTrabalho sobre a relação entre a teoria dos modelos mentais de Johnson-Laird e o conceito de transferência em Freud.The author underline the relationship between Johnson-Laird's mental patterns theory and the concept of transfer in Freud
The evaluation of diagnostic explanations for inconsistencies
No full textWhen individuals detect an inconsistency between a fact and their beliefs, they revise their beliefs, They also use their casual knowledge to create explations of what led to the inconsistency. according to the theory in the present paper, an ideal explanation is a chain of cause and an effect, where the effect explains the inconsistency. Two experiments corroborated this account. When participants evaluated explanations for inconsistencies, they rated a conjiunction of a cause and its effect as more probable than the cause alone, which they rated as more probable than the effect alone. This trend violates the laws of probability - it is an instance of the "conjunction fallacy". It also violates the common assumption that individuals make minimal changes to their beliefs
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