The study involves different ways of accessing a research article, reading a clinical vignette and answering some questions in two sessions (a week apart), with a total duration of about 25min.
Compensation: an email with a report of the study findings and a chance to win one of six $50 gift certificates to Amazon.com Mental health practitioners or professionals-in-training only
This experiment investigates how people understand If-then sentences and Or sentences. Formal logic includes transformation rules of if then to or and vice versa that result in a paradox if taken together. In this experiment we want to see to what extent people accept the single steps leading to the paradox.