Reasoning from or reasoning about beliefs: Truth-based or possibility-based compatibility judgments and Handley et al.'s (2006) Litmus test of the suppositional conditional KU Leuven
How do people go about in evaluating the consistency of their beliefs? Do people reason from or do they reason about their beliefs in judging whether they are compatible, or both? The paper investigates how people evaluate belief in contrary conditionals and . Experiment 1 (N=141) indicates people do not use a notion of possibility-based compatibility according to which claims are compatible when they share a common possibility: After being ...