A simple card puzzle has been used for decades to test human reasoning. Known as the Wason Selection Task, it asks ...

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 ...

Indeed, some believe that reasoning is not involved in the selection task at all, which is much more a question of judging the relevance of the information presented, as the following example of the ...