Wason Rule Discovery Test

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The Wason Rule Discovery Test by Wason (1960).

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Wason, P.C. (1960). On the failure to eliminate hypotheses in a conceptual task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 12, 129-140.

Wason, P. (1968). Reasoning about a rule. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 20(3), 273-281.