TY - JOUR
T1 - How to get rid of the belief bias: Boosting analytical thinking via pragmatics
AU - Macchi, L
AU - Poli, F
AU - Caravona, L
AU - Vezzoli, Michela
AU - Franchella, M
AU - Bagassi, M
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The previous research attempts to reduce the influence of the belief bias on deductive thinking have often been unsuccessful and, when they succeeded, they failed to replicate. In this paper, we propose a new way to see an old problem. Instead of considering the analytical abilities of the respondent, we focus on the communicative characteristics of the experimental task. By changing the pragmatics into play through a subtle manipulation of the instruction of the syllogism problem, we obtained a strong improvement in the accuracy of the performance in both untrained and trained in logic respondents. We suggest that current models of deductive thinking should be broadened to consider also communicative understanding as part of the processing of the problem.
AB - The previous research attempts to reduce the influence of the belief bias on deductive thinking have often been unsuccessful and, when they succeeded, they failed to replicate. In this paper, we propose a new way to see an old problem. Instead of considering the analytical abilities of the respondent, we focus on the communicative characteristics of the experimental task. By changing the pragmatics into play through a subtle manipulation of the instruction of the syllogism problem, we obtained a strong improvement in the accuracy of the performance in both untrained and trained in logic respondents. We suggest that current models of deductive thinking should be broadened to consider also communicative understanding as part of the processing of the problem.
KW - analytical thinking
KW - belief bias
KW - categorical syllogism
KW - dual-process theories
KW - pragmatics
KW - analytical thinking
KW - belief bias
KW - categorical syllogism
KW - dual-process theories
KW - pragmatics
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/276425
U2 - 10.5964/ejop.v15i3.1794
DO - 10.5964/ejop.v15i3.1794
M3 - Article
SN - 1841-0413
VL - 15
SP - 595
EP - 613
JO - Europe's Journal of Psychology
JF - Europe's Journal of Psychology
ER -