RT Conference_Proceedings
T1 The role of content and context in pragmatic reasoning
A1 Valiña García, María Dolores
A1 Seoane Pesqueira, Gloria
A1 Martín Rajo, Montserrat
A1 Fernández Rey, José
A1 Ferraces Otero, María José
K1 Conditional reasoning
K1 Deductive reasoning
K1 Cognitive psychology
K1 Psychology of thinking
K1 Mental models theory
K1 Theory of pragmatic reasoning schemas
K1 Pragmatic factors
AB The purpose of this paper is to study pragmatic reasoning in conditional inference tasks. Two experiments were performed in which the subjects ought to choose among alternative responses, rating their confidence in their choice. The linguistic form of sentences (“if…then” or “whenever…then”) and the negativity of antecedent vs. consequent were manipulated in the first experiment, with formal content. The second experiment, with thematic content, manipulated the context or scenario of the problem (causal, temporal or promises/threats) and the probability of factual relation between antecedent and consequent of conditional sentence (deterministic, probabilistic, without relation). The results were discussed within the framework of the theoretical approaches for human reasoning based upon mental scenarios
YR 1992
FD 1992
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27177
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27177
LA eng
NO This paper was presented at the FIFTH CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - ESCOP, celebrated in Paris, Société Française de Psychologie - UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS-SUD (September, 12-16, 1992).
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026