The subjective use of inductive evidence.

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34 Ss were given questionnaires with 128 questions of the form, "Do subjects verb objects?" Information preceding each question consisted of 1 positive and 2 negative instances. Answering "yes" to a question necessitated generalizing from 1 positive instance of the subject or of the object to the more general subject or object. 8 different subjects, objects, and verbs were used. Significant differences (p < .001) in the proportion of "yesses" were primarily a function of the verb and the form of generalization required. There was more generalization: (a) with "manifest verbs" than with "subjective verbs," and (b) over objects than over subjects. These results are preliminary steps toward the development of an understanding of the laws of subjective verbal logic. (31 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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