creators_name: Valiña, Mª Dolores creators_name: Seoane, Gloria creators_name: Martín, Montserrat creators_name: Fernández-Rey, José creators_name: Ferraces, Mª José type: confpaper datestamp: 2001-07-05 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:42 metadata_visibility: show title: The role of content and context in pragmatic reasoning ispublished: unpub subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: Deductive reasoning, Conditional reasoning, Pragmatic reasoning, content effect, context effect, scenario of problem abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study pragmatic reasoning in conditional inference tasks, Two experiments were performed, in which the subjects ought to choose among alternative responses, rating their confidence in their choice. The linguistic form of sentences ("if...then" or "whenever...") and the negativity of antecedent vs consequent was manipulated in the first experiment, with formal content. Thwe second experiment with thematic content, manipulated the context or scenario of problem (causal, temporal or promises/threats) and the probability of factual relation between antecedent and consequent of conditional (deterministics, probabilistics and without relation). The results were discussed within the framework of the theoretical approaches for human reasoning based upon mental scenarios. date: 1992 date_type: published refereed: FALSE citation: Valiña, Mª Dolores and Seoane, Gloria and Martín, Montserrat and Fernández-Rey, José and Ferraces, Mª José (1992) The role of content and context in pragmatic reasoning. [Conference Paper] (Unpublished) document_url: http://cogprints.org/1612/1/Vali%C3%B1a_%26_cols6.html