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Denial of true-false statements and verbal ability
1985
Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society
Sixteen high-verbal and 16 low-verbal university students were asked to deny ordinarily true statements (e.g., A ship is large), partially false statements (e.g., A dog is large), and utterly false statements (e.g., A fly is large). High-verbal students used affirmative statements 57% of the time to ordinarily true statements, 69% ofthe time to partially false statements, and 87% ofthe time to utterly false statements. Low-verbal students did not distinguish the three types of statements. The
doi:10.3758/bf03329766
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