The cognitive reflection test (CRT) became popular for its impressive power to predict how
well people reason and make decisions. Despite the popularity of the CRT, a major issue …

In common with a number of other authors I believe that there has been a paradigm shift in
the psychology of reasoning, specifically the area traditionally labelled as the study of …

The psychology of reasoning was dominated by the deduction paradigm from around 1960
to 2000, in which untrained participants are asked to assess the validity of logical …

Base-rate neglect refers to the tendency for people to underweight base-rate probabilities in
favor of diagnostic information. It is commonly held that base-rate neglect occurs because …

Abstract Reasoning that is deliberative and reflective often requires the inhibition of intuitive
responses. The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is designed to assess people's ability to …

In recent years, numerous studies comparing intuition and deliberation have been
published. However, relatively little is known about the cognitive processes underlying the …

Two experiments pitted the default-interventionist account of belief bias against a parallel-
processing model. According to the former, belief bias occurs because a fast, belief-based …

Individual differences have been neglected in decision-making research on heuristics and
cognitive biases. Addressing that issue requires having reliable measures. The author first …

How do reasoners resolve a conflict between two competing responses, one cued by beliefs
and knowledge, and one based upon the problem's underlying logic and structure? The …

This individual differences study examined the relationships between three executive
functions (updating, shifting, and inhibition), measured as latent variables, and performance …