Comparison of confirmation measures

Katya Tentori; Vincenzo Crupi; Nicolao Bonini; Daniel Osherson

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2005.09.006

Comparison of confirmation measures

Katya Tentori, Vincenzo Crupi, Nicolao Bonini, Daniel Osherson

Psychology

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Abstract

Alternative measures of confirmation or evidential support have been proposed to express the impact of ascertaining one event on the credibility of another. We report an experiment that compares the adequacy of several such measures as descriptions of confirmation judgment in a probabilistic context.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	107-119
Number of pages	13
Journal	Cognition
Volume	103
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2005.09.006
State	Published - Apr 2007

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Language and Linguistics
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Linguistics and Language
Cognitive Neuroscience

Keywords

Bayesian confirmation measures
Belief updating
Evidential support
Inductive reasoning

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