Specificity effects in reasoning with counterintuitive and arbitrary conditionals

When people have prior knowledge about an inference, they accept conclusions from specific conditionals (e.g., "If Jack does sports, then Jack loses weight") more strongly than for unspecific conditionals (e.g., "If a person does sports, then the person loses weight"). But can specific phrasings also elevate the acceptance of conclusions from unbelievable conditionals? In Experiment 1, we varied the specificity of counterintuitive conditionals,...