creators_name: Valiña, Mª Dolores creators_name: Seoane, Gloria creators_name: Ghering, Sonnya creators_name: Ferraces, Mª José creators_name: Fernández-Rey, Xosé type: confpaper datestamp: 2001-07-17 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:44 metadata_visibility: show title: Conditional Reasoning: Scenario or context effects ispublished: unpub subjects: cog-psy full_text_status: public keywords: Reasoning, Deductive reasoning, Conditional reasoning, context effects, scenario of problem, situation models, text abstract: This paper study the importance of contextual factors in reasoning with conditional inference tasks. In this experiment subjects were given conditional sentences in the context of narrative texts, Short stories about scenarios of the daily life were described in this texts. The experiment manipulated: a) context (causal or promises/threats), b) degree of factual relation between antecedent and consequent of conditional (deterministic, probabilistic or without relation), c) congruence between the factual consequence explicit in the story and the logic conclusion and d) conditional rules. The results were related to previous investigations about syllogistic inference (Valiña & de Vega, 1988; Valiña, 1988)and conditional reasoning (Seoane & Valiña, 1988) and were discussed within the framework of theoretical models about pragmatic reasoning. date: 1992 date_type: published refereed: TRUE citation: Valiña, Mª Dolores and Seoane, Gloria and Ghering, Sonnya and Ferraces, Mª José and Fernández-Rey, Xosé (1992) Conditional Reasoning: Scenario or context effects. [Conference Paper] (Unpublished) document_url: http://cogprints.org/1682/1/Vmodificado.html