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 ...
The correct answers are cards 1 and 4 in both scenarios. However, only 16 percent got the right answer in scenario B, while 65 percent got it right in scenario A. Sperber, Cara, and Girotto interpret ...