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    Attentional factors in a disjunctive reasoning task
    with Richard A. Griggs, Richard D. Platt, and Stephen E. Newstead
    Thinking and Reasoning 4 (1): 1-14. 1998.
    Girotto and Legrenzi's 1993 facilitation effect for their SARS version of Wason s THOG problem a disjunctive reasoning task was examined. The effect was not replicated when the standard THOG problem instructions were used in Experiments 1 and 2. However, in Experiment 3 when Girotto and Legrenzi's precise instructions were used, facilitation was observed. Experiment 4 further investigated the role of the type of instructions in the observed facilitation. The results suggest that such facilitatio…Read more