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Direct linkDe Neys, Wim; Van Gelder, Elke – Developmental Science, 2009
Popular reasoning theories postulate that the ability to inhibit inappropriate beliefs lies at the heart of the human reasoning engine. Given that people's inhibitory capacities are known to rise and fall across the lifespan, we predicted that people's deductive reasoning performance would show similar curvilinear age trends. A group of children…
Descriptors: Conflict, Inhibition, Young Adults, Logical Thinking
