Comparison of confirmation measures

Katya Tentori , Vincenzo Crupi , Nicolao Bonini (1, 1) , Daniel Osherson

1 UNITN - Università degli Studi di Trento = University of Trento

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. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Domaines: Psychologie

Katya Tentori, Vincenzo Crupi, Nicolao Bonini, Daniel Osherson. Comparison of confirmation measures. Cognition, 2007, 103 (1), pp.107-119. ⟨10.1016/j.cognition.2005.09.006⟩. ⟨hal-01440623⟩