How to Get Rid of the Belief Bias: Boosting Analytical Thinking via Pragmatics.
analytical thinking
belief bias
categorical syllogism
dual-process theories
pragmatics
Journal
Europe's journal of psychology
ISSN: 1841-0413
Titre abrégé: Eur J Psychol
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101638700
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2019
Sep 2019
Historique:
received:
02
10
2018
accepted:
14
01
2019
entrez:
8
3
2021
pubmed:
27
9
2019
medline:
27
9
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The previous research attempts to reduce the influence of the belief bias on deductive thinking have often been unsuccessful and, when they succeeded, they failed to replicate. In this paper, we propose a new way to see an old problem. Instead of considering the analytical abilities of the respondent, we focus on the communicative characteristics of the experimental task. By changing the pragmatics into play through a subtle manipulation of the instruction of the syllogism problem, we obtained a strong improvement in the accuracy of the performance in both untrained and trained in logic respondents. We suggest that current models of deductive thinking should be broadened to consider also communicative understanding as part of the processing of the problem.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33680148
doi: 10.5964/ejop.v15i3.1794
pii: ejop.v15i3.1794
pmc: PMC7909186
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
595-613Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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