Modern neuroscience is beginning to substantiate Darwin's notion that the roots of human
morality lie in social instincts, present in several species. The role of primitive motivational …

Recent evidence suggests that people are highly efficient at detecting conflicting outputs
produced by competing intuitive and analytic reasoning processes. Specifically, De Neys …

Very little is known about the reasoning underlying beliefs in complementary and alternative
medicine (CAM). This study examined whether CAM beliefs can be better explained with …

We provide evidence that religious skeptics, as compared to believers, are both more
reflective and effective in logical reasoning tasks. While recent studies have reported a …

PURPOSE The clinical literature advises physicians not to trust their intuition. Studies of
clinical intuition, however, equate it to early impressions, the first thing that comes to the …

Background 'Slowing down when you should'has been described as marking the transition
from 'automatic'to 'effortful'functioning in professional practice. The ability to 'slow down'is …

Considerable evidence supports the sequential two-system (“default interventionist”) model
of moral judgement, as proposed by Greene and others. We tested whether judgement …

Recent dual-process reasoning theories have explained the belief-bias effect, the tendency
for human reasoning to be erroneously biased when logical conclusions are incongruent …

The notion of default mode network (DMN) and the dual process theory of thought, topics
within different cognitive neuroscience and psychology subfields, have attracted …

Intuition suggests that for a conditional to be evaluated as true, there must be some kind of
connection between its component clauses. In this paper, we formulate and test a new …