Differences between decisions made using verbal or numerical quantifiers

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Thinking and Reasoning 27 (1):69-96 (2020)
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Past research suggests that people process verbal quantifiers differently from numerical ones, but this suggestion has yet to be formally tested. Drawing from traditional correlates of dual-process...

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