Testing Descriptive or Prescriptive Conditionals and Differential Effects of Frequency Information
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The author proposes and investigates different strategies for testing descriptive and prescriptive conditionals in Wason’s selection tasks. Two experiments examined the influence of frequency information on the postulated Bayesian and deontic test strategies. The rules in both the descriptive and the prescriptive case were social rules. The results of Experiment 1 showed only some of the predicted differences, and necessitated an extension of the advocated dichotomy. Based on this modification, Experiment 2 completely supported the predicted two types of test strategies. The discussion suggests a classification of different frequency effects that may be rational even for testing deontic rules.
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Towards a Flexible Bayesian and Deontic Logic of Testing Descriptive and Prescriptive Rules Explaining Content Effects in the Wason Selection Task
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