This video reveals why the Wason Selection Task is so legendary: it exposes the massive gap between what we think is logical ...

In the 1960s, a psychologist from Bath devised a puzzle involving four cards that he described as 'deceptively easy'. But almost 60 years on, Peter Wason's puzzle is still leaving people stumped, with ...

One of the longest-running debates in modern psychology centers on the correct interpretation of the Wason Selection Task. Peter Wason originally designed the test to see if people applied logic that ...

Evolutionary psychologists argue that we can understand the workings of the human mind by investigating how it evolved. Much of their research focuses on the past two million years of hominid ...

Manipulating content within fixed logical structures. In each of the author’s three datasets, they instantiate different versions of the logical problems. Different versions of a problem offer the ...