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People with delusions jump to conclusions: A theoretical account ofresearch findings on the reasoning of people with delusions (2003)
Journal Article
Dudley, R., & Over, D. (2003). People with delusions jump to conclusions: A theoretical account ofresearch findings on the reasoning of people with delusions. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 10(5), 263-274

Recent multifactorial models of psychotic symptoms such as delusions emphasize a role for reasoning biases in the maintenance of delusional beliefs. Specifically, people with delusions are seen to jump to conclusions. This well-replicated experimenta... Read More about People with delusions jump to conclusions: A theoretical account ofresearch findings on the reasoning of people with delusions.

The probability of conditionals: The psychological evidence (2003)
Journal Article
Over, D., & Evans, J. (2003). The probability of conditionals: The psychological evidence. Mind and Language, 18(4), 340-358. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00231

The two main psychological theories of the ordinary conditional were designed to account for inferences made from assumptions, but few premises in everyday life can be simply assumed true. Useful premises usually have a probability that is less than... Read More about The probability of conditionals: The psychological evidence.

Conditionals and conditional probability (2003)
Journal Article
Evans, J., Handley, S., & Over, D. (2003). Conditionals and conditional probability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29(2), 321-335. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.29.2.321

The authors report 3 experiments in which participants were invited to judge the probability of statements of the form if p then q given frequency information about the cases pq, p-q, -pq, and -p-q (where - not). Three hypotheses were compared: (a) t... Read More about Conditionals and conditional probability.