Judging if a conclusion follows logically from a given set of
premises can depend much more on the believability than on
the logical validity of the conclusion. This so-called belief bias
effect has been replicated repeatedly for many decades now.
An interesting observation is, however, that process models for
deductive reasoning and models for the belief bias have not much
of an overlap - they have largely been developed independently.
Models for the belief bias often just implement first order logic
for the reasoning part, thereby neglecting a whole research field.
This paper aims to change that by presenting a first attempt at
substituting the first order logic components of two models for belief,
selective scrutiny and misinterpreted necessity, with two state
of the art approaches for modeling human syllogistic reasoning,
mReasoner and PHM. In addition, we propose an approach for
extending the traditionally dichotomous predictions to numerical
rating scales thereby enabling more detailed analysis. Evaluating
the models on a dataset published with a recent meta-analysis on
the belief bias effect, we demonstrate the general success of the
augmented models and discuss the implication of our extensions
in terms of the limitations of the current focus of research as well
as the potential for future investigation of human reasoning.