The effects of Open and restricted context sentences and reasoning with conditional propositions

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This study explores decoding and reasoning behavior with conditional propositions. The research confirms the major findings of prior research on conditional reasoning: Persons tend to make illicit conversions of conditionals to biconditionals, and have difficulty with Modus Tollens and contrapositive inferences. Most importantly, the research findings indicate that persons reason better when the stimulus material is generalized rather than specific and more context restricted.

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