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) |
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Pages (from-to) | 107-119 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Cognition |
Volume | 103 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2007 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- 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