This study explores the fMRI correlates of observers making trait inferences about other
people under conflicting social cues. Participants were presented with several behavioral …

Stress pervades everyday life and impedes risky decision making. The following experiment
is the first to examine effects of stress on risky decision making in the Iowa Gambling Task …

We tested models of base rate “neglect” using a novel paradigm. Participants (N= 62)
judged the probability that a hypothetical person belonged to one of two categories (eg …

The current study investigated differences in decision-making style and risk-taking between
financial traders, non-trading bank employees, and people not working in finance. Traders …

Recent research shows that in reasoning tasks, subjects usually produce an initial intuitive
answer, accompanied by a metacognitive experience, which has been called feeling of …

Objectives: This study examined decision-making competence in ADHD by using multiple
decision tasks with varying demands on analytic versus affective processes. Methods: Adults …

Conditional reasoning is reasoning that involves statements of the sort If A (Antecedent) then
C (Consequent). This type of reasoning is ubiquitous; everyone engages in it. Indeed, the …

Abstract The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT), designed to assess the ability to inhibit
intuition to process a problem analytically, predicts people's performance in many normative …

Recent research suggests that reasoners are able to draw simple logical or probabilistic
inferences relatively intuitively and automatically, a capacity that has been termed “logical …

When the validity of a deductive conclusion conflicts with its believability people often
respond in a belief-biased manner. This study used response times to test the selective …