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@article{citeulike:263593, abstract = {A recent development in the cognitive science of reasoning has been the emergence of a probabilistic approach to the behaviour observed on ostensibly logical tasks. According to this approach the errors and biases documented on these tasks occur because people import their everyday uncertain reasoning strategies into the laboratory. Consequently participants' apparently irrational behaviour is the result of comparing it with an inappropriate logical standard. In this article, we contrast the probabilistic approach with other approaches to explaining rationality, and then show how it has been applied to three main areas of logical reasoning: conditional inference, Wason's selection task and syllogistic reasoning.}, address = {School of Psychology, Cardiff University, PO Box 901, CF1 3YG, Cardiff, UK}, author = {Oaksford, M and Chater, N}, citeulike-article-id = {263593}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11477004}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=11477004}, day = {1}, issn = {1364-6613}, journal = {Trends Cogn Sci}, keywords = {history, projection, trends}, month = {August}, number = {8}, pages = {349--357}, posted-at = {2008-02-24 01:13:57}, priority = {2}, title = {The probabilistic approach to human reasoning.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11477004}, volume = {5}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:263593 L3 - citeulike-article-id:263593 N2 - A recent development in the cognitive science of reasoning has been the emergence of a probabilistic approach to the behaviour observed on ostensibly logical tasks. According to this approach the errors and biases documented on these tasks occur because people import their everyday uncertain reasoning strategies into the laboratory. Consequently participants' apparently irrational behaviour is the result of comparing it with an inappropriate logical standard. In this article, we contrast the probabilistic approach with other approaches to explaining rationality, and then show how it has been applied to three main areas of logical reasoning: conditional inference, Wason's selection task and syllogistic reasoning. IS - 8 JF - Trends Cogn Sci SN - 1364-6613 AD - School of Psychology, Cardiff University, PO Box 901, CF1 3YG, Cardiff, UK EP - 357 TI - The probabilistic approach to human reasoning. VL - 5 SP - 349 KW - history KW - projection KW - trends AU - Oaksford, M AU - Chater, N PY - 2001/08/01/ UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11477004 ER -