{"pk":31655,"title":"How Diagrams can Improve Reasoning: Mental Models and the Difficult Cases of Disjunction and Negation","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We report two experiments on the effects of diagrams on reasoning. Both studies used \"double disjunctions\", e.g.: Raphael is in Tacoma or Julia is in Atlanta, or both. Julia is in Atlanta or Paul is in Philadelphia, or both. What follows? Subjects find it difficult to deduce a valid conclusion, such as: Julia is in Atlanta, ","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9k823473","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Malcolm","middle_name":"I.","last_name":"Baur","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""},{"first_name":"P.","middle_name":"N.","last_name":"Johnson-Laird","name_suffix":"","institution":"Princeton University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31655/galley/22723/download/"}]}