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    "pk": 32278,
    "title": "How to Make the Impossible Seem Possible",
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    "abstract": "The mental model theory postulates that reasoners build models of the situations described in premises. A conclusion is possible if it occurs in at least one model; and it is impossible if it occurs in no models. According to the theory, reasoners can cope with what is true, but not with what is false. A computer implementation predicted that certain inferences should yield cognitive illusions, i.e. they have conclusions that should seem highly plausible but that are in reality gross errors. Experiment 1 showed that, as predicted, participants erroneously inferred that impossible situations were possible, and that possible situations were impossible, but they performed well with control problems. Experiment 2 replicated these results, using the same premises for both the illusory and the control inferences: the participants were susceptible both to illusions of possibility and to illusions of impossibility, but they coped with the control problems.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [],
    "section": "Long Papers",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Philip",
            "middle_name": "N.",
            "last_name": "Johnson-Laird",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Michigan",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Yevgeniya",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Goldvarg",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern California",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "1997-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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