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Wolfe, Michael B.; Kurby, Christopher A. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
We examined subjects' ability to judge the soundness of informal arguments. The argument claims matched or did not match subject beliefs. In all experiments subjects indicated beliefs about spanking and television violence in a prescreening. Subjects read one-sentence arguments consisting of a claim followed by a reason and then judged the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Beliefs, Validity, Abstract Reasoning