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Two experiments examine how people interpret and reason about advice conditionals,
such as tips, for example, “if you study more your grades will improve”, and warnings,
for example, “if you stop exercising you will gain weight”. Experiment 1 showed that
when participants reason about whether a tip or warning could be true in different
situations, their judgments correspond to a biconditional or conditional interpretation
on about half of all trials, but to an enabling or tautology interpretation on many
others. Experiment 2 showed that participants make few modus ponens and tollens
inferences from tips and warnings, and more modus ponens inferences from tips than
warnings. The implications for alternative theories are discussed.
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Keywords
Advice Tips Warnings Conditionals Reasoning
Citation
Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 29 (3), 364-380. Doi: 10.1080/20445911.2016.1278377
Publisher
Taylor & Francis