Research in the field of human reasoning has shown repeatedly that people find it reasonably easy to detect inconsistencies. The question that still remains is how people revise their beliefs to undo these inconsistencies. Past research on belief revision has mainly focused on trying to identify a single belief revision strategy. The main goal of this thesis was to investigate whether people apply one single belief revision strategy or rather multiple ones. This thesis reports on seven experiments on belief revision investigated within the arena of human reasoning theories. In each experiment, participants had to make belief revision choices on modus ponens (MP) and modus tollens (MT) problems. Each inference problem consisted of sets of t...
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Contemporary theories on frequency processing have been developed in different sub-disciplines of ps...
Um aktiv mit der Umwelt agieren und auf neue, unvorhergesehene Gegebenheiten reagieren zu können, is...
For hundreds of years, philosophers explored how humans reason and what reasoning abilities humans p...
In its original version, Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) comprises a systematic set of 19 con...
The starting point of the dissertation was the question how people search for information in memory ...
Seitdem die Informationstheorie in die psychologische Forschungsliteratur wäh-rend der Mitte des let...
Verification problems are often expressed in a language which mixes several theories. A natural ques...
The use of self-assessment tools (such as personality tests or job interviews) for personnel selecti...
Self-control is a fundamental capacity in life. It enables people to act in accordance with their sh...
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This thesis investigates the relationship between eye movements, memory and thinking in five studies...
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Die Dissertation umfasst vier unabhängige, jedoch thematisch verwandte Artikel. Der Schwerpunkt lieg...
Patterns are an efficient and successful way to capture best practices and access the tacit knowledg...
The violation of societal shared convictions is a phenomenon which can occur in different situations...
Contemporary theories on frequency processing have been developed in different sub-disciplines of ps...
Um aktiv mit der Umwelt agieren und auf neue, unvorhergesehene Gegebenheiten reagieren zu können, is...
For hundreds of years, philosophers explored how humans reason and what reasoning abilities humans p...
In its original version, Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) comprises a systematic set of 19 con...
The starting point of the dissertation was the question how people search for information in memory ...
Seitdem die Informationstheorie in die psychologische Forschungsliteratur wäh-rend der Mitte des let...
Verification problems are often expressed in a language which mixes several theories. A natural ques...
The use of self-assessment tools (such as personality tests or job interviews) for personnel selecti...
Self-control is a fundamental capacity in life. It enables people to act in accordance with their sh...
This dissertation highlights various aspects of basic social attention by choosing versatile approac...
This thesis investigates the relationship between eye movements, memory and thinking in five studies...
Humans perform numerous interactions with objects in the environment, like reaching for a mug on the...
Die Dissertation umfasst vier unabhängige, jedoch thematisch verwandte Artikel. Der Schwerpunkt lieg...
Patterns are an efficient and successful way to capture best practices and access the tacit knowledg...
The violation of societal shared convictions is a phenomenon which can occur in different situations...
Contemporary theories on frequency processing have been developed in different sub-disciplines of ps...
Um aktiv mit der Umwelt agieren und auf neue, unvorhergesehene Gegebenheiten reagieren zu können, is...