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Relevance-driven information search in 'Pseudodiagnostic' reasoning
When faced with two competing hypotheses, people sometimes prefer to look at multiple sources of information in support of one …
Gaëlle Villejoubert
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Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
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Constructing Preferences in the Physical World: A Distributed-Cognition Perspective on Preferences and Risky Choices
Psychological research has firmly established that risk preferences are transient states shaped by past experiences, current knowledge, …
Gaëlle Villejoubert
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Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
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Reports of wins and risk taking: An investigation of the mediating effect of the illusion of control
Two experiments examined the relationships between the knowledge that another person has won in a gamble, the illusion of control and …
Frédéric Martinez
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Valérie Le Floch
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Bernard Gaffié
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Gaëlle Villejoubert
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Interactive Insight Problem Solving
Insight problem solving was investigated with the matchstick algebra problems developed by Knoblich, Ohlsson, Haider, and Rhenius …
Anna Weller
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Gaëlle Villejoubert
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Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
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La résolution de problème naturalisée [Naturalised problem-solving]
A striking feature of people engaged in problem solving activities outside the psychologist’s laboratory is that it exhibits a great …
Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau
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Gaëlle Villejoubert
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Is guilt ‘likely’ or ‘not certain’?: Contrast with previous probabilities determines choice of verbal terms
This research focuses on what determines speakers’ choice of positive and negative probability phrases (e.g., “a chance” vs. “not …
Marie Juanchich
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Karl Teigen
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Gaëlle Villejoubert
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When some is actually all: Scalar inferences in face-threatening contexts
Accounts of the scalar inference from ‘some X-ed’ to ‘not all X-ed’ are central to the debate between contemporary theories of …
Jean-François Bonnefon
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Aidan Feeney
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Gaëlle Villejoubert
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Interpreting claims in offender profiles: the role of probability phrases, base‐rates and perceived dangerousness
Offender profilers use verbal and numerical probability expressions to convey uncertainty surrounding claims made about …
Gaëlle Villejoubert
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Louise Almond
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Laurence Alison
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What lies beneath: Reframing framing effects
Decision framing concerns how individuals build internal representations of problems and how these determine the choices that they …
John Maule
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Gaëlle Villejoubert
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Modus Tollens, Modus Shmollens: Contrapositive reasoning and the pragmatics of negation
The utterance of a negative statement invites the pragmatic inference that some reason exists for the proposition it negates to be …
Jean-François Bonnefon
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Gaëlle Villejoubert
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