Explaining the implicit negations effect in conditional inference: Experience, probabilities, and contrast sets.

Psychologists are beginning to uncover the rational basis for many of biases revealed over last 50 years in deductive and causal reasoning, judgment, decision making. In this article, it is argued that a manipulation, experiential learning, shown be effective judgment making, may elucidate underpinning implicit negation effect conditional inference. three experiments, was created removed by using probabilistically structured contrast sets acquired during brief learning phase. No other theory negations predicts these results, which can modeled Bayes nets as approaches category structure. It also how results relate recent development psychology reasoning called inferentialism. concluded same cognitive mechanisms underpin making common logical require no special purpose machinery or module. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).