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Peer reviewedAgnoli, Franca; Krantz, David H. – Cognitive Psychology, 1989
Two experiments, with 300 adult women as subjects, studied the effects of laboratory training on the use of the Conjunction Rule, a principle of probability that is often violated. Learning alternative strategies enabled trained subjects to use extensional reasoning rather than intensional heuristics. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Employed Women, Females
