{"pk":28122,"title":"Individuals become more logical without feedback","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Many theories of reasoning and many experiments presupposethat human ability is stable over time, and so people usuallydraw the same conclusion from the same premises. The as-sumption has hitherto had little or no empirical investigation.We therefore analyzed a study in which 20 participants drewtheir own conclusions to the 64 sorts of syllogisms on twooccasions separated by roughly a week. We report the na-ture of the changes in the participants’ conclusions includingtheir spontaneous improvement in logical accuracy, and use amodel-based program, mReasoner, to explain the results.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"cognitive stability; logical improvements; mentalmodels; reasoning; syllogisms"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kx0p15x","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Marco","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ragni","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Freiburg","department":""},{"first_name":"Nicolas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Riesterer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Freiburg","department":""},{"first_name":"Sangeet","middle_name":"","last_name":"Khemlani","name_suffix":"","institution":"US Naval Research Laboratory","department":""},{"first_name":"P.N.","middle_name":"","last_name":"Johnson-Laird","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton, NYU","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28122/galley/17782/download/"}]}