Investigating the ‘Belief Bias’ Effect in Human Reasoning
Abstract
In this report an experiment was conducted to investigate the belief bias effect in human reason, the weighting attached to logic and belief in syllogistic reasoning. Belief biases were observed despite controls for conversion of premises. Belief bias was shown to be more marked in the invalid than the valid syllogisms. This consistent interaction between belief and logic was also noted. However, participants were intermediate in there response to syllogisms that were valid but had unbelievable conclusions. For 8 syllogisms presented, responses were collected as to whether the conclusion followed logically form the premises or not and a 2-factor ANOVA was performed in order to find the main effects and interaction present between the variables (believability & logicality)
A conflict between logic and belief was identified and explored in terms of Evan Dual Process theory, which supposes 2 cognitive systems......

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Title: Investigating The ‘belie Bias’ Effect In Human Reasoning
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